Getting Started with Rhino 8 in Rhino.Inside.Revt

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Here’s a quick ‘State of the Union’ for Rhino8.Inside.Revit

Currently (as of 11.28.2023) the Release Candidate installer is required to load Rhino 8. This will move into the Stable build in an upcoming Tuesday release.

After installing you will be presented to this option when opening Rhino.Inside.Revit.

A big difference here is that Rhino 8 is now .Net 7, where Revit is still in .Net 4.8. That will change in the Revit 2025 version i believe. This will eventually simply things in the latest versions. The current solution has Rhino 8 opening in 4.8 inside Revit.

If you are not comfortable with working in your projects in this evolving environment please stick with Rhino 7.inside.Revit for a few more months.

Rhino 8 has added features that are going to expand on how we use Rhino.Inside.Revit.

There are two key aspects that are going to be in flux; Rhino 8 new Grasshopper components & the ScriptEditor.

Rhino 8 has added new Data Types to Grasshopper, we refer to these as GH1 components. These types will not be recognized if opened in Rhino 7.

I’ll be adding additional posts with more details specific to Rhino.Inside.Revit but here are some essential links about GH1 components.

Rhino 8 Feature: GH1 Is Now More Than Just Geometry!

New Data Types Available in GH1 Have you ever been frustrated that you couldn’t bake geometry with custom attributes? What about display materials? Have you ever wanted to be able to use native Rhino materials in the Grasshopper display pipeline? How about importing files into Grasshopper - have you ever become discouraged when you try to import a CAD file and lose all of the basic metadata that is included with the geometry? The latest Rhino 8 WIP now has new data types and components which e…

Rhino 8 Feature: Build Blocks Better using Grasshopper

Grasshopper 1 now supports Blocks Grasshopper 1 for Rhino 8 WIP now has several new components for creating and/or editing block definitions and instances. [BlocksToolbar3] With the click of a few buttons, you can create Block Definitions which can be baked (with object attributes) into your current Rhino document. Or if you prefer, simply use the new Import Block Definition to use geometry from an existing Rhino file to define a new block. [Block_Instances3] Blocks definitions can also be…

Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering

New Components for Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Objects Edit: Some changes have been made to the way the Filtering components behave. To see the latest features, please review this post after reading through the tutorial below. Have you ever wanted more granular control over the data or objects inside of Grasshopper? For example, have you ever wanted to select only the objects in your model that have a particular material applied to them (ie. glass)? Or maybe you wanted to remove all surfac…

The ScriptEditor is a big change as well.

Rhino 8 Feature: ScriptEditor (CPython, CSharp)

Hello Here is another quick update on the newly-called ScriptEditor in Rhino 8. THIS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN NEXT WIP BUILD (Some of it is there already but might be different from the video and be buggy) [Publishing Your Scripts as Rhino/GH Plugins] We will be creating better tutorial videos soon. P.S. I just listened to this and I will really try to stop saying “sort of like”

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Here is an example of using GH1 components to Create Rhino Blocks and Grids and creating Revit Grids and Structural Column Families concurrently.

Note that this is in the latest Daily Build and the Rhino and Revit Units are in Feet.

• To get the linetypes to display run the Linetypes command once in a Rhino window.
• In Rhino Shaded display mode there is a display bug in transparent materials with blocks, changing the grasshopper layer material to be non- transparent resolves it.

RH8-RiR-Create Columns and Grids_V1.gh (52.9 KB)

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In the Latest you can now cast Rhino Blocks to DirectShapes like so, in the future this will apply to creating a new Family as well, at the moment it’s direct shapes only.

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GH1 Content Cache will now work with Revit Graphical Elements (basic Model Elements)

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Here’s a 3 hr workshop on GH1 components with Andy Payne from the recent AEC Tech 2023 session.

AECtech 2023 | Rhino8

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From Revit Preview release I can confirm the Migration to .Net 7 in Revit 2025