Rhino 8 WIP Available Now!

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22187) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Analysis: EdgeContinuity: Missing the Help button (RH-69198)
  • Constraints: example messy when a fillet is added (RH-67911)
  • Contour: Made a partial result with a small contour spacing value (RH-69042)
  • CurvatureAnalysis: Missing the Help button (RH-69197)
  • CurvatureGraph: Missing the Help button (RH-69202)
  • DraftAngleAnalysis: Missing the Help button (RH-69203)
  • EdgeSoftening: Broke texture mapping (RH-69158)
  • Emap: Missing the Help button (RH-69199)
  • ExtractRenderMesh: Did not copy decals to extracted meshes (RH-69029)
  • File IO: Scripting IGES Save/SaveAs/Export should not show the scaling dialog box (RH-69149)
  • Gumball: Wrong face was selected after extruding if the side got split into multiple pieces (RH-68927)
  • MergeFaces: Failed on the center vertex of a mesh cylinder cap (RH-54048)
  • Offset: Failure depending on picked point (RH-69030)
  • PointDeviation: Missing the Help button (RH-69200)
  • Rebuild: Deviation incorrect for surface (RH-69134)
  • Rendering: Environments created in Rhino 7 had inconsistent preview angle in Rhino 8 (RH-69207)
  • Rendering: Content Panels: Creating a Basic Environment caused a crash (RH-69147)
  • Rendering: Materials:
  • Rendering: Texture Mapping:
    • Edge softening did not take into account UVW transform of texture mapping (RH-69186)
    • Sub-object material assignment broke multiple mapping channels (RH-43249)
  • Rendering: Textures: Preview did not update (RH-69238)
  • RhinoCode:
    • System error in RhinoCode editor when creating geometry (RH-66555)
    • Play cannot be undone (RH-68029)
  • ShowEdges: Missing the Help button (RH-69201)
  • StatusBar: Bold text display glitch on the panes (RH-69150)
  • SystemInfo: Wrong section for plug-ins that ship with Rhino (RH-66544)
  • UVEditor: Object aligned Gumball was located wrong (RH-68866)
  • Zebra: Missing the Help button (RH-69196)

Cosmetics:

  • Constraints: Updated icons in panel and added icons for viewport (RH-69153)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Shell: Crashed v8 in a simple case (RH-69189)
  • UVEditor: Hung or crashed when moving meshes in UVEditor (RH-69159)

Enhancements:

  • CPlane: Direction was flipped when setting on a ClippingPlane (RH-68999)
  • ClippingPlane: Custom Section Style (in layer and object properties) allows filling the closed section on an open object (RH-69078)
  • Constraints:
    • When the explode or join command is run update constraints to reference the joined or exploded objects (RH-67788)
    • Show parameters next to dimension constraints in the panel (RH-68452)
  • File IO: Allows exporting bad curves to DWG/DXF and displays data errors in command-line (RH-69019)
  • Layer: Removed "Layer name" from column header list to avoid all columns being turned off (RH-55637)
  • MatchProperties:
    • Right-clicking a checkbox enables only the option in the same group (RH-53850)
    • Added Attribute User Text (RH-45604)
  • RefitTrim: Added CreateBeziers and EditKnots options (RH-69074)
  • Rendering: Materials: Preview thumbnail can be viewed from underside (RH-69178)
  • SelName: Hides <No name> in the list when every object in viewports has a name (RH-69167)
  • Selection: Ctrl(CMD) + window/crossing selection deselects sub-objects in command session (RH-69256)

Features Added:

  • Constraints: Added Aligned length type (RH-68138)
  • MatchProperties: Add clipping and sectioning properties (RH-67318)
  • Rendering: Texture Mapping: Fits mapping size individually when multiple objects are selected (RH-61516)
  • Selection: Ctrl(CMD) + window/crossing selection deselects sub-objects in pre-selection (RH-68023)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Displacement: Showed in object properties when only vertices or edges were selected (RH-68898)
  • Properties: Mesh 'modifiers' missing for SubD objects (RH-68778)

UI Change:

  • Layer: Removed "By Clipping Plane" from Section Styles attribute (RH-69018)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Protocol Handler: Supports opening files from URL of rhino: protocol (RH-58700)
  • Toolbar: : RUI files can be unlinked from Workspace (RH-67777)

Features Added:

  • File IO:
    • Imports Universal Scene Description file formats (.usd, .usda, .usdc, .usdz) (RH-68991)
    • Ported E57 file import plug-in to Rhino for Mac (RH-40154)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: OpenGL stopped working correctly after calling AMD driver function to get total memory on GPU (RH-67184)
  • RhinoCode: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V did not work on Windows (RH-66309)