Hi all, There are already some improvements to UV unwrapping and editing in Rhino BETA and more is coming. I’m concentrating on fixing issues with workflows and reliability. UV Unwrapping As-rigid-as-possible method in the Unwrap command has been replaced for better results. Symmetric parts unwra…

[image] Charles: Especially for the constraints, it would be useful to see the selection in the viewport. Yep, that’s one the features I would like to add. But it’s a bit tricky to do.

Hi @Jussi_Aaltonen In my experience, unless the texture is baked properly, there’s no reliable connection between the flattened geometry and the original UV mapping: [Screenshot 2025-08-05 133929] [Screenshot 2025-08-05 133936] These panels are intended for laser cutting and will be assembled …

Hi @Jussi_Aaltonen Just for good measure, I: Exploded the panels Bake the texture from a single panel unrolled that panel [Screenshot 2025-08-05 140157] This is even less of a desirable result with the UV mapping showing the panel reference massively out of scale to the texture: [Screenshot …

smart UV unwrap layout It would be amazing if Rhino 9 could make an smart suggestion for an continuous unwrap layout and also automatically adjust the size of the UV grid, so that you would only have to manually edit the seams when necessary. Below is a rough proposal for the unwrap of a rounded c…

Hi DK, It’s a long time since I dfid this so my memory is a bit hazy. However I seem to remember the process as follows: Model sail and split into Deg1 developable panels, making sure all panels will join back into a single polysrf with no naked edges. Planar map image onto polysrf Bake textures …

the Rhino help shows the following behavior for the command ExtractUVMesh: Texture mapping | Rhino 3-D modeling Texture mapping properties manage texture map projections for selected surfaces, polysurfaces, and meshes. [Rhino_help_ExtractUVMesh] But that’…

Usually the only type of texture mapping on mesh objects that survives flattening is the surface mapping. Baked objects use surface mapping.

[image] UAS-Design: It would be amazing if Rhino 9 could make an smart suggestion for an continuous unwrap layout and also automatically adjust the size of the UV grid, so that you would only have to manually edit the seams when necessary. Unwrapping with automatic seams has been requested be…

[image] UAS-Design: But that’s actually how it looks for me. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a checkbox to activate a continuous unfolding? The ExtractUVMesh command just adds a flat mesh object that represents the object in the UV (texture mapping UV, not NURBS surface UV) space.

[image] Jussi Aaltonen: Please, try out Rhino WIP and let me know what you think. What would simplify your UV workflow? Thank you, Jussi, for the excellent work. Rhino has improved significantly on the rendering side, and proper UV mapping was one of the missing pieces. Thanks to these recent…

Rhino BETA Feature: UV Editing Improvements

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Jussi_Aaltonen (Jussi Aaltonen) September 2, 2025, 12:10pm 16

Unwrapping with automatic seams has been requested before too. Linked this request there as well.

What do you mean by ‘adjusting the size of the UV grid’?

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