Concept is a new native display mode tailored for architects and designers who want to present their 3D models with a clean, early-design stage aesthetic in Rhino.
It renders with a gradient background: light blue to light brown (top to bottom), soft shadows, and an emphasized silhouette, giving models a sketch or concept drawing look, while keeping a sense of spatial depth. We’ve added a subtle feathered-edge grid to keep the focus on the design, while giving a sense of scale and support.
Concept Display is aimed at:
Maintaining a clean visual feedback that reflects the design intention as you model
Quickly communicating early-stage designs with a presentation-ready look straight from your 3D model
Applying Concept mode to your Details and Layouts to create consistent architectural drawings
Why this Feature?
Architects & designers often need to present models in early-design stages, in a way that feels intentional and sketch-like, as opposed to overly rendered or technical. Until now, achieving this look required either exporting to a separate application or manually tweaking display settings from scratch.
Concept mode gives architects & designers a fast, one-click starting point for presentation-quality visuals that still look like design, not production.
In Architecture:
In Industrial Design:
The mode is particularly useful for:
Massing and volume studies
Client presentations during schematic design
Competition entries and academic work
Additional Information
Materials are fully rendered, including reflections & refraction.
Customize its settings in Options > View > Display Modes > Concept.
@Rhino_Bulgaria - FYI the developers are looking into the crashes and long freezes btw (RH-96729 Concept display mode: long uncancellable freeze (Esc ignored) and occasional crash when applying it to older files).
As of now, I can’t set only selected objects to use Display Mode = Concept and when I’m in the Concept Display Mode I can set some objects to use e.g. Shaded, but it doesn’t work. I’m writing about this because I would like to have only objects in the foreground using Hidden Lines. There are potentially a couple of ways to achieve that:
Per object Hidden Line setting so mixing Display Mode settings with some Model Object settings (impossible in Rhino at the moment)
Having two flavors of Concept display mode - 1. Hidden Lines = On and 2. Hidden Lines = Off. Set Viewport to Concept (Hidden Lines = Off) and for the selected objects change Display Mode from By View to Concepts (Hidden Lines = On).
In complicated scenes there can be many overlapping geometries in the background, using Hidden Lines for all geometries in the scene can result in very messy, convoluted picture.
The default Concept display mode is used. The box from Grasshopper on the right is shown with less saturated color or in other words it looks sort of pale.
Anyway, I don’t know if the others have noticed it too, but there is this selection bug. As you can see, when I select a surface, sometimes the others are selected as well, turning all the surfaces yellow.
There is also this strange behavior: if I enable the control points and select the surface, the background also gets a yellowish tint.
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