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Use this single user download of Rhino 8 from McNeel to create, edit, analyze, and animate your next free-form 3D modelling project. Whether its an engineering venture or a new jewelry design, Rhino 8 ensures accurate and uninhibited creation. Rear and repair meshes and IGES files, pair with other design software, and run it all on your Window or macOS device.
The 8th edition of the software adds new modeling tools like ShrinkWrap, a speed boost for macOS users, simplified modeling workflows, SubD creases, and improved clipping and sectioning tools. Customize the user interface, render your projects faster, and create new Grasshopper data types, among other updates.
Feature Updates
Model Creation Tools
- Combine new tools to quickly sketch your idea in 3D
- PushPull: grab a face and push or pull it, extruding or extending, use curves to add or remove volumes
- Gumball: move, scale, and rotate widgets get new grips for extending and extruding
- SubD: creases for fillet-like features
- Surface Fillets: FilletSrf has new UI with dynamic radius previews
- Offset: create multiple closed regions
Editing Tools
- Auto CPlanes: smarter CPlanes automatically align to eligible section
- Improved Mesh Booleans: rewritten and more reliable
- RefitTrim: take control of structure and continuity for well-made surface models
Interface
- Window Layouts: customize, save, share, and restore your favorite layouts
- Layer Manager: complete rewrite on both Windows and macOS
- Blocks: Block manager is now more flexible and powerful
Rendering and Presentation
- Rhino Render: updated cycles engine for faster, GPU-accelerated raytracing
- UV Mapping: improved with floating UV editor, new unwrapping algorithms, pinning, and better texture quality
- Procedural Textures: native, per-pixel procedural textures in raytraced and rendered modes
- Display Modes: monochrome for showcasing architectural work
Drafting
- Linetypes: draw stylized curves with pattern, width, and taper
- Reflected Ceiling Plans: reflected parallel projection viewport mode
- Dynamic 2D drawings
- Section Styles: clipping planes and section styles give more control when using clipping plans
Digital Fabrication
- ShrinkWrap: watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, SubD, and point clouds, ideal for 3D printing
- Sectioning for Fabrication: support for extracting curves, hatches, surfaces, and slices of clipping planes
Mesh Tools, Inspection, and Analysis
- Improves Mesh Booleans: completely rewritten and more reliable Mesh Booleans
- Curvature Analysis: now supports SubDs
- Draft Angle Analysis: allows using named CPlanes, a smarter CPlane Z option, and automatically sets direction when switching options
- Point Deviation: now supports SubDs and shows red numbers when invalid distances are entered
Compatibility
- USD Export: Universal Scene Description, an extensible format commonly used in visualization applications
- GLTF Import/Export: transmission format useful for sharing models on the web using WebGL
Grasshopper 1 Editor
- Included graphical algorithm editor
- Manage Rhino object attributes directly from Grasshopper
- Document your design with annotation, hatch, and linetype components
- Create block definitions and instances
- Live baking, add/modify/remove user text from Rhino objects