Overview
Welcome to our Rhino 7 work in progress project. The Rhino 7 Beta requires a Rhino 6 commercial/educational license key to try. The new features are available simultaneously on both Windows and Mac versions:
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New features and enhancements available today:
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Modeling
- Subdivision Surfaces
- BlendSrf - New Refine checkbox avoids creating a simpler blend surface
- Revolve - Ends of the revolving axis can be attached to objects using object snaps when History is recorded.
- MatchSrf - History locking allows editing control points of matched surfaces.
- DupBorder: Added History support
- FilletSrf now has a G2 option.
Editing
- Curve Surface Intersections - improves results for trims, splits, and booleans. Also in our testing results can be 4x faster in some cases.
- Named Selections
- Changed the spacing of control points in BlendEdge based on customer feedback.
- Boolean Operations - Have been improved to union, subtract or intersect coplanar surfaces.
Mesh Tools
- Quad Remesh
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Mesh Intersections
- MeshSelfIntersect - New command
Analysis
- EdgeContinuity Uses line hairs to visualize distance, tangency, and curvature between an edge pair.
- PointDeviation: Added Maximum distance and minimum distance statistics
- Clash Detection - a new Grasshopper component
Display
- Display performance improvements for nested blocks, annotation, and detail viewports
- Rendered Display mode captures more lighting in a realtime working mode.
- Viewports and Rhino Render now use the same rendering settings.
- Transparent color support on layers and objects
- Per face color support for polysurfaces and SubD
Rendering and Presentation
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Rendering Improvements (Rhino Render)
- New Rhino Render (Cycles) - Modern progressive rendering technology including advanced usage of both the CPU and GPU hardware.
- Cuda, OpenCL and
- Embree libraries
- Light Falloff
- Clipping Plane support
- Filmic Tone Mapping
- Plugin extendable Post-effects, tone mapping, and final image filters.
- Denoisers supported
- PBR Materials - Forum discussion
- New Rhino Render (Cycles) - Modern progressive rendering technology including advanced usage of both the CPU and GPU hardware.
Drafting and Printing
- Layout Panel - new panel for layout management
- Text Field Enhancements
- Block Attributes
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Gradient and Transparent Hatches
- New Grasshopper components for hatching
- Display Color Transparency on objects and by layer
Digital Fabrication
- Single Stroke (Engraving) Fonts - detected in text and properly output in vector format
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Mold Making improvements
- Draft Curve for split lines
- RibbonOffset
- Straighten Sections in Blend Command added.
Development Tools
- Rhino.Compute
- RhinoCommon additions
- File import/export support through headless RhinoDocs
- ~1000 new properties and methods
- Rhino.Inside CPython
- rhino3dm (python, web assembly, and .NET)
- Grasshopper improvements
- New Clash Detection component
- New Hatch components
- Placeholder objects for unknown components.
- Grasshopper inside other environments through Rhino.Inside.
- Grasshopper solver online through Compute servers.
- GrasshopperPlayer and grasshopper based native Rhino commands
- Package Manager installs missing components without a restart.
Compatibility
- Rhino.Inside Revit
- File Format updates
- 3DS/FBX Import - New Open/Import meshes as SubD surfaces option.
- CSV Export - Supports exporting group names and indexes.
- DGN import - Updated to use OpenDesign 20.8.
- DWG/DXF - Attribute User Text and ACAD xData can be exchanged.
- DWG/DXF Import - Supports reading gradient patterns as gradient hatches.
- DWG/DXF Export - Supports writing gradient hatches as gradient patterns.
- DWG/DXF - The Open command disables Layout space scaling.
- DWG - Imports block descriptions.
- GES Export - Supports SubD.
- FBX/3DS Export - New Export lights and Export views options.
- FBX/3DS Import - New Import lights, Import cameras, and Prompt to scale on import options.
- OBJ Export - Convert SubD surfaces or control nets into meshes.
- OBJ Export - New Use display color for objects with no material set checkbox.
- PDF Export - Supports Layers.
- SOLIDWORKS import: Supports up to version 2020.
- STEP Import/Export - Supports per-face colors.
- STEP Import - Added progress report during parsing STEP files
- STEP Export - Supports SubD.
- SVG Export - Supports exporting transparent objects.
- VRML Import/Export - Supports PointClouds (PointSets in VRML).
- Copy/Paste between Rhino and Illustrator / InkScape / Affinity Designer (currently Windows only)
Administration
- Package Manager
- Co-shipping Win/Mac
NOTE: This list will change during the development of Rhino 7. The post is intentionally closed; please create new posts for questions and requests.