Rhino 8 WIP Available Now!

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23164) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Hatch: Hatch > Match doesn't work well with gradient hatches (RH-75292)
  • BoxEdit: BoxEdit panel causes a delay in History updates (RH-71250)
  • Display: Rendered mode camera misses some objects (RH-75117)
  • Display Metal: Moving a ClippingPlane or ClippingSection has artifacts and is missing fill (RH-74787)
  • Inset: Input disappears (RH-75079)
  • RelocateGumball: Relocating the Gumball with Ctrl/Cmd has been broken (RH-74452)
  • Rendering: Materials: Material editor name issues (RH-75197)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon: CreateCustomMeshMapping does not set projection (RH-75305)
  • SelBoundary: Allow preselection (RH-74455)
  • Split: Split point and point filters (RH-75179)
  • UVEditor: Unwrap focus problem for select seams step (RH-74514)
  • Unwrap: ability to restore previous seam selection (RH-68857)
  • WindowLayout: Special-case Command Line when restoring Window Layouts rhw files on Mac (and vice versa) (RH-74623)

Crashes Fixed:

  • ExtractClippingSections: Crashes (RH-75304)

Enhancements:

  • DupFaceBorder: DupFaceBorder on merged SubD faces (RH-75246)

Features Added:

  • Properties: implement new section properties (RH-74428)
  • UVEditor: UV Editor: allow constraining edge chains to curves (RH-72578)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Expose full ON_Extrusion::CreateFrom3dCurve (RH-75208)

UI Change:

  • Choose One Object: "Show object type details" is renamed to "Show curve type details" (RH-75181)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display Metal:
    • Clipping plane looks pixelated where overlapping with cap (RH-74061)
    • UsesRoughnessTexture Crash in Technical display mode (RH-75224)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • EditScript: RhinoScript Editor - syntax tree empty (RH-75229)

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23171) is now available for Windows and Mac
Bugs Fixed:

  • Layer panel doesn't apply custom section style if no hatch is selected (RH-75315)
  • Annotation: Linetype: Number of segments (RH-74303)
  • ArcBlend: report colinear input (RH-75337)
  • FilletSrf: FilletSrf preview black on Metal (RH-73590)
  • Keyboard: Tab missing on the key list (RH-69990)
  • MeshBooleanDifference: MeshBooleanDifference missing option to keep input (RH-73753)
  • NamedCPlane: No restore after rename (RH-70300)
  • Options: Display modes: cannot change the shadow intensity (RH-75209)
  • Osnap:Point: OSnap - One Shot "Point" snap doesnt get set when clicked. (RH-75320)
  • Panels: LayerStateManager does not get checked (RH-74584)
  • Section Tools: Sections: remove underscores from command line options (RH-74885)
  • Toolbar:
    • Link V7 rui file glitches (RH-71394)
    • Copy/Paste LMB/RMB script fails (RH-73821)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Commands: Apple Silicon: Dimension commands can't be repeated (RH-72758)
  • Display Metal: GH Custom Previews don't draw in Rendered, Arctic (RH-74981)
  • Print: Empty preview image (RH-70709)
  • Toolbar:
    • Dim command run from toolbar button does not repeat on Mac (RH-73072)
    • Button background color stays in blue after being clicked on Mac (RH-72028)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Dark Mode: Block edit dark mode version (RH-72929)
  • Eto: Dropdown in GridView doesn't select if mouse down is not over an existing grid row (RH-68190)
  • Help: Rhino 8 does not load offline-help in Help panel (RH-75271)

Enhancements:

  • Help: Made offline help for all users instead of current user only (RH-75379)

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23185) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Linetype: Thickness wrong on layout (RH-74805)
  • Arctic display: Object fails in Arctic mode (Metal) (RH-73824)
  • ClippingPlane: Section styles: by parent (RH-68813)
  • Display: Section of clipping plane gets wrong color (RH-74356)
  • Display Metal: Arctic mode loses details (RH-74077)
  • File IO: SVG Import creates too many materials (RH-75451)
  • Localization: error (pt): Localization Team: String formats do not match (RH-75394)
  • MeshBooleanDifference: MeshBooleanDifference missing option to keep input (RH-73753)
  • MeshOutline: MeshOutline jumble (RH-51636)
  • OSnap:From: From Osnap with curve constraint (RH-75518)
  • PushPull:
    • Extend option doesnā€™t seem to work on the roof (RH-74300)
    • PushPull on a surface should make a solid (RH-74992)
  • Radius: Constrained if a curve is selected with other objects (RH-75517)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Decal doesn't render (RH-75381)
  • Rendering: Materials: Per face materials are lost when exploding and rejoining (RH-58191)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • RhinoDoc.ReadFile interrupted with Ć¢ā‚¬Ėœimport scaling - DimensionNumbersĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢ (RH-67948)
    • RhinoObject.UserData doesnā€™t seem to save to the object when saving the file (RH-48844)
  • SubD: Bug in ON_SubD::InterpolateSurfacePoints() (RH-75471)
  • Toolbar: update NewInV8 (RH-70381)
  • UVEditor: Doesn't keep up with material assignment (RH-75216)

Cosmetics:

  • SphereTangentToThreeSurfaces: Trim=Yes flips surface normal (RH-47938)

Enhancements:

  • CopyToClipboard: Sub-object can be copied and pasted as a new object (RH-54501)
  • Drag and Drop: Support importing toolbar container definition files (*.rhc) (RH-75339)
  • Gumball: Double-click a gumball control to enter relocate mode (RH-75362)
  • MeshBooleanDifference: Added Tolerance=Auto/Document/Zero options to mesh boolean commands (RH-75600)
  • PushPull: PushPul: Added Toggle option to switch between Extrude and Extend mode (RH-73362)
  • RhinoCode: Allow debugging of imported code (RH-71462)
  • Undo: Keeps sub-object selection (RH-59423)

Features Added:

  • Display: Move all Technical pipeline features and capabilities into the pipeline base class (RH-57451)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon: SelLast does not catch the last created geometry in GhPython (RH-54558)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Annotation: Hatch: Hatch fails in V8 (RH-70992)
  • Mesh: Render mesh degradation in WIP8 (RH-74129)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Support exporting DWG format (RH-52079)
    • Support exporting SKP format (RH-52083)

Tasks Completed:

  • Rendering: Cycles: Update C wrapper around Cycles (RH-67470)

UI Change:

  • ClippingPlane: New ClippingPlaneProperties command (RH-75355)

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • ZoomSelected: Include clipping plane widgets (RH-75519)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Text: Text is not editable from floating Properties panel (RH-75366)
  • Display Metal: Switching Maximized Viewports locks up (RH-75433)
  • Grasshopper: Recent Items > List has formatting issues (RH-72701)
  • Layer: Column state not remembered between sessions (RH-75410)
  • Menu: Remove "View > Show Toolbar" (RH-75438)
  • Panels: Lose focus on Mac (RH-75555)
  • Rendering: Cycles: CyclesX: With factory-default settings, Cycles is set to CPU (rather than Metal) (RH-75426)

Cosmetics:

  • Eto: UI: Eto-provided Cancel and "OK" buttons are missing top borders (RH-74496)
  • PropertiesPage: Properties: Text: Height field is too short (RH-67275)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • ChangeLayer: Allow keyboard input (RH-72268)
  • LineTypeDisplay: Dots displays as continuous (RH-73035)
  • UI Appearance: Resizing dialog of Emap, Zebra, Curvature Analysis etc. is difficult (RH-72813)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23192) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Custom dimension style name missing from dropdown (RH-73677)
  • Annotation: Hatch: Import Hatch Pattern drawing too dark in dark mode (RH-75657)
  • Annotation: Linetype: No scaling in details (RH-71045)
  • FilletSrfToRail: FilletSrfToRail selection tuneup (RH-75631)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Mesh artifacts on Ground Plane with Optix (RH-61315)
  • Rendering: Materials: Nested blocks that have by parent shows different material in viewport than in raytraced (RH-74500)
  • SynchronizeRenderColors: Use layer color's opacity value (RH-75666)
  • UDT: CageEdit preview incorrect for degree 1 objects (RH-75623)
  • UI Appearance: Cascade tooltip not yet ported to v8 (RH-74889)
  • Undo: Materials added by block insert won't undo (RH-75559)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Instant crash (RH-67125)

Features Added:

  • MeshIntersect: Command cannot be cancelled (RH-49273)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Annotation: Hatch: Model space hatch scale doesn't stick (RH-75640)
  • DocumentProperties: Changes to display precision do not stick (RH-74242)
  • MeshBooleanDifference: Failure case (RH-73555)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Added Rhino.HostUtils.DescribeGeometry() (RH-75398)
    • Support exporting IGES format (RH-52082)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display Metal:
    • Dotted linetypes not displaying correctly (RH-75610)
    • Array command crashes Rhino when using large dimensionsā€¦ (RH-75100)
  • Print: Preview upside down (RH-75380)

Performance Improvements:

  • Rendering: Render Performance on Apple M1 (RH-61623)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Linetype: Number of segments (RH-74303)
  • Annotation: Text: Command line steals focus (RH-75619)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23193) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • File IO: Failed to Save File - read only (RH-75731)

Enhancements:

  • Rendering: Default sample count of Raytraced viewport is changed to 100 (RH-73847)

Regressions Fixed:

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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23199) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • ClippingPlane: Block instance sections (RH-75675)
  • CurvePiping: Curve piping isn't working fully with new linetype styles (RH-72822)
  • Display:
    • Grid appears and hops around between block instances (RH-75755)
    • Array commands do not preview blocks in ghosted display mode (RH-75720)
  • Layer: Collapse layer crash (RH-75863)
  • MeshBooleanDifference: MeshBooleanDifference samples (RH-69152)
  • MeshSplit: MeshSplit failure (RH-54541)
  • Toolbar:
    • update NewInV8 (RH-70381)
    • Recently Used toolbar duplicates used buttons (RH-73272)
  • UI Appearance: Menu pops up under auto-hide sidebar (RH-73310)

Enhancements:

  • ReducePointCloud: Added "Percent" option for points to remove (RH-75754)

Features Added:

  • Section Style: Include boundary linetype option (RH-75676)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display Metal: Gumball disappears in certain display modes on Mac (RH-75690)
  • Layer: Changing properties deselects layers (RH-68930)
  • Print: Empty preview image (RH-70709)

Cosmetics:

  • Dark Mode: Toolbars: Floating containers borders look weird in Dark Mode (RH-75729)

UI Change:

  • Toolbar: Popup toolbar from middle mouse button works more like Windows version (RH-73445)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Installer: Smart App Control on Windows 11 blocks Rhino installation (RH-74165)
  • Layer: Drag-and-drop layers to the bottom is not possible (RH-72466)
  • Toolbar: Tools Toolbar layout gets partly invisible (RH-72216)
  • UI Appearance:
    • Rhino looses focus when dragging out a toolbar (RH-73898)
    • Icon Scaling refresh (RH-71928)
  • WindowLayout: Workspaces: Keep size of containers between sessions (RH-70275)

Enhancements:

  • Eto: Layers: Scroll the list on drag and drop (RH-73413)

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23206) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Linetype:
    • Not displayed in model space (RH-75701)
    • Round cap is not very round (RH-74021)
  • ClippingPlane:
    • Clipping fills are missing on block items (RH-75859)
    • Missing Clipping Fills or Edges on nested blocks (RH-72039)
  • Display:
    • Display modeā€™s section fill issue (RH-75935)
    • Section fill incorrectly displays color for shaded selected clipping plane (RH-75929)
    • Dynamic Clipping Section (RH-75238)
    • Disabling option Use section styles (RH-75722)
  • FilletSrf: FilletSrf Tangent and Bulge Sliders range are editable (RH-73759)
  • Rendering: Materials: Material editor name issues (RH-75197)
  • ScriptEditor: Script editor splash screen tune up (RH-75622)
  • ShowEdges: Edge Analysis mode should ignore display mode edge settings (RH-76000)
  • UI Appearance: Floating containers cannot be sized to be a single row high (RH-71817)

Enhancements:

  • File IO: Export to SVG should use the ETO UI (RH-75934)

Regressions Fixed:

  • WireCut: WireCut KeepAll=yes is ignored in V7 and V8. Okay in V6. (RH-68897)

UI Change:

  • Toolbar: Hide Ć¢ā€œĀ§ on empty buttons (RH-73071)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • line types and widths are not showing in lates v8 wip for mac. (RH-75923)
  • Display Metal: ClippingPlane shows a white plane (RH-75903)
  • Options: Mouse > MMB > custom toolbar (RH-72343)
  • Panels: Show Panels menu highlight remains highlighted when scrolling (RH-75908)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • File IO: Print all layouts to image (RH-75932)
  • FileExplorer: Reverts to medium sized icons (RH-75891)
  • Keyboard Shortcuts: Zoom Window through shortcut Ctrl+W after restoring a named view sends a W to the command line instead (RH-73347)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23213) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • ClippingPlane: Custom depth cannot be set to zero on clipping plane creation (RH-75926)
  • Display: Slow Grasshopper preview (RH-76037)
  • File IO: SVG: Failure case (RH-76062)
  • Gumball: gumball extrude and cut handles remain visible in orthogonal view (RH-75845)
  • LayerStateManager: LAYERSTATES aren't functioning after upgraded to Rhino 8 from Rhino 7 (RH-76102)
  • Libraries: Running _Libraries command to show Libraries panel causes doc to be in an Edited State (RH-75938)
  • Properties: Add Accept Default to -Properties (RH-76138)
  • ScriptEditor:
  • SelBadObjects: Bad objects can't edit or delete (RH-76081)
  • Toolbar: PopUpToolbar: layer container tune up (RH-75937)

Cosmetics:

  • Tabs: Dragging tab label needs padding-right and rounded look (RH-73341)

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • ScriptEditor: Script Editor - consolidate errors (RH-75737)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Commands: File Explorer command does nothing (RH-75916)
  • ScriptEditor: Fails to start on Mac (RH-76023)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: View manipulation hits sticky points (RH-74121)
  • Options: Mouse: Alignment of UI elements (RH-76002)
  • Rendering: Materials: Materials panel: Focus shifts in material search (RH-76053)

Enhancements:

  • Print: Use Eto Print Dialog on Windows (RH-75732)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23220) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • ArcBlend: Doesn't trim correctly (RH-75955)
  • ClippingPlane: Clipping does not update dynamically when set to "Include Selected" (RH-75855)
  • Display Metal: Object Intersection Not Visible in Technical Display (RH-76113)
  • Gumball: Incorrectly shows scale handles after relocating (RH-75851)
  • Layer: Old Layers panel SDK functions need updating (RH-68678)
  • MouseOver Highlight: SubObject selection / Mouseover highlight does not work for (poly)surface vertices (RH-75852)
  • OpenNURBS: ON_Plane::IsValid should check for NaN (RH-76196)
  • PersistentOnSrf: PersistentOnā€¦ object snaps do not work with Copy (RH-76080)
  • Print: Technical and pen mode (RH-11615)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Rectangular lights not visible in reflections (RH-76178)
  • Reset: Running Reset command causes doc to be in an Edited State (RH-75939)
  • UI Appearance: Resize areas should have consistent width (RH-74337)

Enhancements:

  • Rendering: Materials: Thumbnails now render only discrete sizes of 64, 128, 256, 512 and any in-between sizes get scaled during display (RH-76114)

Features Added:

  • Grasshopper: Added "Point Cloud Contour" component (RH-75858)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: Cannot explode text, leaders, and dimensions from RhinoCommon (RH-50235)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • UI problems with macOS Sonoma (RH-75678)

Features Added:

  • File IO: Backup current 3dm file before saving over it (RH-68397)

UI Change:

  • Viewports: Added the down-arrow button to viewport tiles for opening the viewport menu (RH-70593)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Hatch: Gradient Hatch not properly scaled when placed inside a block (RH-76003)
  • Rendering: Materials: Materials panel: Focus shifts in material search (RH-76053)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23227) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Text: Text Selection Not Working In Perspective Projection Detail with Layout Scaling Enabled (RH-75634)
  • CPlane: AutoAlign: Gumball does not undo correctly with autocplane (RH-75832)
  • File IO: Order of layouts in PDF (RH-75933)
  • Panels: Isolate makes the Filter panel appear (RH-72881)
  • Rendering: Materials: Single color texture fails on physically based (RH-74876)
  • SDK: SDK installer should not check for VS 2019 (RH-76312)
  • SelLayer: Should work by selecting an object (RH-76252)
  • Selection: Surface gets selected when hidden isocurve is hit (RH-75787)
  • Snap: Remove snapping to invisible objects (RH-76109)
  • UVEditor: UV Editor: Re-unwrap must use symmetry tip from Unwrap (RH-74636)

Enhancements:

  • Gumball: Shift key can activate 2D scaling on plane handle after dragging has started (RH-75535)
  • History: Supports snapping to SubD vertices (RH-76098)
  • Print: Add UI to the print dialog to allow for saving layouts as individual PDFs (RH-76192)

Features Added:

  • Grasshopper: Grasshopper does not naively support lightweight extrusions (RH-42662)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Display: Top-most object in nested blocks do not show wires (RH-76298)
  • Layer: Layers panel - Copied layer location incorrect (RH-76262)
  • Rendering: Materials: Single color texture using object color not working properly when object is colored (RH-74877)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Mesh.CreateFromCurveExtrusion flawed (RH-68211)

Story:

Tasks Completed:

  • Rendering: Cycles: Fold RhinoRenderCycles project into RhinoCycles (RH-67468)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • ImportPreferences: Allow ImportPreferences (Settings) to accept .plist files for backward compatibility (RH-76260)
  • Options: Display Modes: Clipping plane settings (RH-75612)
  • Preferences: Import/Export Preferences commands need renaming and aliases on Mac (RH-76259)
  • Rendering: Materials: Investigate the work needed to support the use of the alternative texcoord-set in Procedurals (RH-75067)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Textures: rendered mode bitmap images adjustment makes object transparent (RH-76282)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23234) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • CPlane: AutoAlign: AutoCPlane: Make it work in a detail (RH-75563)
  • Docking: make the target zones larger (RH-72559)
  • File IO: Order of layouts in PDF (RH-75933)
  • Fin: Too much fin (RH-76377)
  • Layer: Sticky column width and order (RH-69711)
  • Move: Moving dimensions differs depending on pre or post selection (RH-75643)
  • NamedView: Named view icons are gone (RH-76442)
  • Print: Vector PDF from Technical (RH-76212)
  • Rendering: Materials: materials: cannot assign default, by default (RH-76397)
  • SelectionFilter: Selection filter switches off (RH-76342)
  • WindowLayout: Window layouts: incorrect layout restored (RH-72000)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Trim: Hard crash running Trim (RH-76341)

Enhancements:

  • Print command - prefill filename for Rhino PDF (RH-76354)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: PointCloud.RemoveRange slow (RH-76488)

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • Containers: Toolbars: Single docked toolbar does not refresh (RH-70356)
  • Rendering: Textures: Texture control slider range (RH-76362)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • CommandPrompt:
    • Undocked command prompt on mac has focus issues (RH-73672)
    • The command control appears after restarting Rhino when Use command options dialog option is on (RH-75176)
  • Menu: Window > Panels > Command History entry missing (RH-75915)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Rendering on Mac: blank image (RH-73275)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Bake: bake component is broken (RH-76347)
  • Rendering: Textures: rendered mode bitmap images adjustment makes object transparent (RH-76282)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23241) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Block: Properties panel, Block Instance tab issue (RH-76574)
  • ClearAllMeshes: Doesn't clear technical meshes (RH-76579)
  • Display: Section curve color (RH-76424)
  • ExtractClippingSlices: Uses block on a layout (RH-75231)
  • File IO: Read and Write file formats with options (RH-70646)
  • Grasshopper: Grasshopper preview of dimension doesn't show correct text gap when compared to actual Rhino drawing code (RH-76173)
  • PackageManager: Rhino tries to load plug-in twice after updating package (RH-70611)
  • Print: Vector print crash (RH-76580)
  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Focal blur fails (RH-76044)
  • Rendering: Realtime SDK: Rendering: Cycles: Hidden objects in block instances are rendered (RH-76516)
  • Rendering: Textures: Missing image files dialog issue (RH-76441)
  • Section Tools: Use deleted geometry (RH-76273)
  • SubD: ON_SubDVertex::SetControlNetPoint(*,true) needs to clear the cache of 2 rings of faces. (RH-76334)
  • UDT:
  • UI Appearance: Rhino hides when hovering over unpinned settings menu (RH-73342)

Cosmetics:

  • Rendering: Materials: Layer material swatch only shows diffuse color and disregards texture map (RH-51792)
  • Rendering: Texture Mapping: Empty name lists as (unnamed) (RH-67395)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Display Metal: com.mcneel.rhinoceros.RhCore:MetalSemaphore::Wait(long long) (RH-76230)

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • ScriptEditor: Improve Python 3 language server performance (RH-76225)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: Metal: Selected mesh sub-faces won't shade-highlight (RH-72301)
  • Sweep2: refit tolerance limited (RH-76552)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Linetype: Line weights are only showing center line (RH-76547)
  • Dark Mode: Point Cloud Contour (RH-76193)
  • Display: Reconsider adding back pixel alignment for orthogonal lines (RH-76211)
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • Extrude is broken (RH-76348)
    • Extrude non planar curves not working (RH-76350)
    • Extruding a curve in GH results in a solid (RH-76349)
  • Panels:
    • unpinned container overlaps dialogs (RH-76202)
    • All Rhino Panels should support F1 Help (RH-76339)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Display: Single backface color (RH-76617)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23248) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: Shade-highlight highlights wrong objects (RH-76687)
  • FilletCorners: FilletCorners converts polycurve linear segments to degree 2 curves (RH-76759)
  • Grasshopper: Extrude curve failure (RH-76758)
  • Gumball:
    • Gumball keeps drawing dynamic circle after mouse is released (RH-76731)
    • Cutting creates duplicate of objects that are close to the extrusions (RH-75853)
  • Layer: Layer's Match properties doesn't match section style (RH-76735)
  • MeshSplit: Moose mesh split failure (RH-67023)
  • Rendering: Cycles:
    • Cycles: Ground plane with bump map has mapping issues (RH-37825)
    • Environment altitude incorrectly used in Raytraced (RH-62381)
    • Decal issues (RH-75658)
    • Artifacts with Clipping Plane (RH-62567)
  • Section Tools:
    • Clipping drawing update: unhighlight (RH-76819)
    • Report text tune up (RH-76701)
    • ClippingSections: depth tune up (RH-76605)
  • SmartTrack: Add a way to draw a line past a smarttrack point with defined distance (RH-76152)
  • SplitRefitSurface: Fails when not preselected (RH-76681)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Tooltip form crashes on popup toolbar. (RH-76714)
  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Crash in raytraced mode moving control points (RH-76419)

Enhancements:

  • SplitRefitSurface: Added "ShowGrips" option to RefitTrim and SplitRefitSurface commands (RH-76685)

Regressions Fixed:

  • TextObject: Group option overrides thickness (RH-76740)

UI Change:

  • LayerStateManager: No option to restore Section Style or New Detail On properties (RH-76742)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display Metal: Backface color settings don't work in Metal/Macā€¦ (RH-76628)
  • Rendering: Blue and Red channels are mixed up (RH-76784)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Code Editor Control: New Grasshopper C# Script Editor locks up entire system (RH-75785)
  • Layer: Delete and Undo of layers changes does not work when mouse is in Layer Panel (RH-73690)
  • ScriptEditor: System.Windows.Forms is missing (RH-76726)
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Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.23251) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • ClippingPlane: Include Selected - support curves (RH-76791)
  • Layer: Layers drag to sort (RH-76878)
  • Mesh: Mesh settings behave in an unexpected way (RH-76874)
  • MeshSphere: MeshSphere > Quad version is not symmetrical (RH-76881)
  • Print:
    • PDF export contains annotations off canvas (RH-76577)
    • Raster print from Technical view (RH-76697)
    • Use Hidden Linetype for Fake2d Output (RH-76402)
  • PushPull: PushPull face does not extend (RH-76849)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Groundplane: Cycles doesn't show objects if camera is below the ground plane (RH-60443)
  • Rhino Inside: Rhino Render (ccycles.dll) fails to load in Rhino Inside Revit (RH-56927)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Add missing documentation to SubDFace.SurfaceCenterFrame and SubDFace.ControlNetCenterFrame (RH-76639)
  • Section Tools:
  • UI Appearance: Dark Mode annotation tabs (RH-76423)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Tooltip form crashes on popup toolbar. (RH-76714)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Layer: Expand/Collapse context menu items should work with sublayers (RH-76916)
  • Make2D: Multiple ClippingPlanes (RH-76226)

UI Change:

  • Gumball: Ctrl+Double-click a handle relocates Gumball with numeric input (RH-76815)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Convert from Extrusion to Brep (RH-76738)

UI Change:

  • Keyboard: Use Command+2 to 6 for changing viewport display modes (RH-69988)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • UI Appearance: scrollable dialog content gets lost (RH-74086)
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Rhino 8 BETA (8.0.23255) is now available for Windows and Mac

Known Issues:

  • We had to update our code signing certificates this week, so youā€™ll likely get some warnings from Windows about Rhino not being recognized. We think itā€™s safe to install anyway.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Code Editor Control: C# Code suggestions to show return values (RH-76821)
  • Display: Tab for box mode on a SubD is busted in shaded modes (RH-76873)
  • DraftAngleAnalysis: DraftAngleAnalysis - make the moving SubD show draft angle when control points are dragged (RH-76925)
  • FilletEdge: Filletedge - can't select any edges (RH-76901)
  • Gumball: Scale handle remains visible after scaling a curve to 0 (RH-76993)
  • LineTypeDisplay: Linetype segments don't match linetypes in V7. (RH-72906)
  • Print: Need each printers list of sheets (RH-76683)
  • Properties: Object Properties Change Layer Mac issue (RH-76970)

Enhancements:

  • Modeling Aids: Add a way to draw a line past a smarttrack point with defined distance (RH-76152)

Features Added:

  • Make2D:

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • Section Tools: ExportClippingSectionInfo command saves .csv on Windows and .txt on Mac (RH-76954)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • ScriptEditor: On start, window goes behind Rhino window (RH-76876)
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Rhino 8 BETA (8.0.23262) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Block: Linked Block Parent Layer Does Not Lock Block (RH-59294)
  • ChangeSpace: ChangeSpace Result does not preserve original orientation (RH-77126)
  • Display:
    • Intersection curves not correct in Technical display with Clipping plane (RH-76932)
    • Snap point display (RH-77060)
  • Grasshopper:
    • Bounding box of block instance issue (RH-77101)
    • Extrude issue far from origin (RH-77048)
  • Grasshopper: Bake: Baked content doesn't update after changing attributes (RH-76989)
  • Grasshopper: Components: Scale override does not work (RH-76988)
  • Rendering: Rendering through Frame buffer increases memory usage (RH-77045)
  • Toolbar:

Crashes Fixed:

  • Make2D: Make2D via a python script crashes WIP (RH-72621)
  • WindowLayout: Restore layout crash (RH-76986)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Properties: Scriptable _-Properties _Object missing IsoCurve options (RH-69191)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display Metal: Transparent mirrored block instances (RH-77021)
  • Section Style: By Clipping Plane does not work on Mac (RH-76867)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Code Editor Control: Crash with legacy Grasshopper C# and VB components (RH-77024)
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Rhino 8 BETA (8.0.23264) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Layer: Panels: State of layers in floating Layer panel is not the same as docked panel (RH-77184)
  • LocationSettings: Change of Location doesn't stick (RH-77069)
  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Raytraced pixels are shifting in viewport and in view capture (RH-77157)
  • Toolbar: Display dark mode icons need improvement (RH-76990)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • UI Appearance: Mac inactive tabs are too difficult to read (RH-77171)
  • Crash fixed when switching or closing viewports
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Rhino 8 BETA (8.0.23269) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

  • Rhino Render Advanced Settings section keeps opening (RH-77302)
  • Code Editor Control: Show current parameter description text below the method text in method signature help (RH-77140)
  • Display:
    • Layout Layer Color has no effect on detail border colors (RH-72385)
    • Consistently display snap point on a clipping plane (RH-77059)
  • LocationSettings: Change of Location doesn't stick (RH-77069)
  • OSnap: Right click OSnap doesn't set focus back to command line (RH-77246)
  • Print:
    • Dialog: View and Output Scale: Window Set is being remembered. (RH-76945)
    • Rhino PDF allows printing with layout size instead of single paper size (RH-77235)
  • Rendering: Realtime SDK: Rendering: Cycles: Doesn't support clipping planes that are not visible (RH-77185)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Display: Crash in DrawShadedMeshes when SpaceMouse attached (RH-76119)
  • ScriptEditor: Crashes when searching (RH-77264)

Regressions Fixed:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: CustomRenderMeshProvider returns null for ThickeningId, "On" (RH-77191)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • WindowLayout: The Command Prompt visibility checkbox is missing in V8 (RH-73624)
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