Rhino BETA Features

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This list will change as Rhino BETA develops.

Welcome to our Rhino BETA (work in progress) project. The Rhino BETA requires a Rhino 8 commercial/educational license key.

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Rhino BETA Features

Modeling / Editing:

• Modeling / Editing: FilletEdge / BlendEdge / ChamferEdge Improvements
• Modeling / Editing: FilletSrf / ChamferSrf improvements
• Modeling / Editing: InflateCurves
• Modeling / Editing: Patch
• Modeling / Editing: ShapeMap
• Modeling / Editing: Selection Undo Stack
• Improvements: Boolean improvements
• Improvements: Point Cloud Splitting
• Improvements: SubD display
• Rebuild: Rebuild command (elmo based)
• SubD: SubD Knife
• SubD: SubDMatch
• UI: ArrayCrv
• UI: Global Edge Continuity UI
• UI: Gumball Improvements
• UI: ScaleEach Command
• UI: SoftTransform
• UI: Surface Indicators
• UI: UVN Gumball
• UI: Inset Group Mode
• UI: Multi-surface PushPull

Drafting:

• Drafting: Shapes/Text in linetypes
• Block: ExportBlockAttribute
• Dim: GD&T Symbols
• File IO: Improved DWG Import/Export
• Hatch: Create Patterns Grasshopper
• Hatch: Create Patterns Rhino
• Including more default Hatch Patterns
• Hatch Management Panels
• Layouts: Layout Groups
• Layouts: Non-Rectangular Details
• Sectioning: Section Style Table
• Sectioning: SectionTools
• Text: Text Masks
• Workflow: Black/White Switching
• Workflow: Crosshair Size
• Workflow: Drafting Symbols
• Workflow: Guides
• Workflow: Markups
• Workflow: New Clipboard Features
• Workflow: Offset
• Workflow: Overlap
• Workflow: Parallel Lines
• Workflow: Stretch
• Workflow: Trim/Extend Fence
• Workflow: Isolate to Viewport

Rendering:

• Rendering: Caustics and Dispersion
• Rendering: Fix PBR displacement with adaptive meshing
• Decals: # Full Material Support for Decals
• Improvements: Improve texture mapping code

Display:

• Display: Direct3D Display Engine
• Display: Concept Display
• Prettier: A new Zebra Display
• Transparency: Transparency color does not have any effect in the display

User Interface:

• User Interface: General Performance Improvements
• User Interface: Make Toolbars Work
• User Interface: Icon Redesign
• User Interface: Transfer Settings
• Command Line: Command line reboot
• Improvements: General review GUI
• Instant Aliases

Grasshopper:

• GH1: Content Viewer
• GH1: Drafting - Section/Clipping Planes
• GH1: Interactive Viewport Widgets
• GH1: Rendering - Materials
• GH1: Rendering - Texture Mapping
• GH1: Rendering - Textures
• GH1: Value Picker

File I/O:

• File I/O: Audit3dmFile Graphically
• File I/O: Pack and Go
• File I/O: USD File I/O
• File I/O: Worksessions on Mac
• File I/O: Navisworks

Developer Tools:

• Developer Tools: RhinoMCP
• Rhino.Compute on Linux
• Pkg Mgr: Package Manager - Improve in-Rhino experience
• Script Editor: Example Scripts
• In-App Unit/Regression Testing
• Python 3 Matplotlib Support
• New Python 3
• Script Editor: Publish Packages
• C++ SDK for Mac

Requirements:

• Requirements: Discontinue Intel support on Mac

Rhino WIP Enhancements:

• Added BothSides option to most solid, mesh, and SubD primitive commands (RH-63751)
• Align: ToPlane option is changed do what IPlane command does (RH-90437)
• Analytics: Check command supports sub-selected objects in blocks (RH-84493)
• Annotation: DimAngle, DimRadius and DimDiameter allow selecting locked objects (RH-87001)
• Annotation: DimArea, DimVolume, and DimCurveLength allow selecting locked objects (RH-87109)
• Annotation: JoinText properly handles multiple pre-selections (RH-94887)
• Block: Exported from Block Manager includes definition properties (RH-85589)
• Color Picker: Supports custom colors with colors.txt on Mac (RH-75086)
• ContentBrowser: ‘Choose Existing’ content dialog improvements (RH-89552)
• Curvature: Added ShowCustomRadius option to mark locations of specified radius (RH-82485)
• Cylinder: Added Deformable option (RH-81875)
• Detail: Allows showing background color from display mode in Detail views (RH-3867)
• DimUserText: Allows confirming choice by double-click (RH-91137)
• DimUserText: New command (RH-87137)
• Display Options UI: Added “Reflection line thickness” setting to SubD page (RH-90073)
• Display: Float frame buffer support per display mode (RH-52997)
• Distance: Allow measuring distance between two selected points (RH-87389)
• Distance: Units option includes all model units in Units document properties (RH-92370)
• Drag and Drop: Fails for .Pat format on Mac (RH-87989)
• Drag and Drop: Supports importing hatch pattern (.PAT) files (RH-29081)
• Ellipse: Added FitPoints option (RH-78096)
• Explode: Added TangentComponents option for keeping tangent surfaces joined (RH-81188)
• Export: File export commands fill file name, and add/increase number suffix (RH-56888)
• ExtractSrf: Added JoinOutput option for polysurfaces and Extrusions (RH-18738)
• File IO: Added “Max angle” setting for curves to SketchUp export options (RH-89985)
• File IO: Added option to change backup file saving folder (RH-46436)
• File IO: Added option to disable saving backup files for non-3dm file types (RH-48512)
• File IO: Files Open Fine in RH7, Not in RH8 (RH-85040)
• File IO: SketchUp Export - Added “Group objects” option to make selecting objects in SketchUp easier (RH-89556)
• File IO: SketchUp Export - Added IncludeUnweldedEdges command-line option for merging joined planar adjacent faces (RH-89627)
• File IO: SketchUp Export tags edges and faces with layer names (RH-74214)
• File IO: Supports reading vertex colors from Gaussian splat PLY files (RH-85444)
• FileExplorer: Paths support Windows environment variables (RH-93856)
• FilletCorners: Added History support (RH-84822)
• Geometry Core: Added geometry bug submission tool (RH-91311)
• Gray Out Padding for 0 or 1 Details (RH-85406)
• History: Added OneShotRecord option to History command (RH-83797)
• Installer: Use unique icon for Worksession .rws files (RH-91131)
• Lasso: Added SelectThroughObjects option (RH-87497)
• Layer: Added a new Description column (RH-7522)
• Layer: Added Purge button to Layers panel (RH-86905)
• Layer: Added Status Bar to Layer Panel (RH-91143)
• Layer: Allows resetting properties of reference layers from linked blocks (RH-12131)
• Layer: Excluded “None” from Section Style Sorting (RH-96215)
• Layout: Added “New Detail” Button to Layout Panel (RH-81408)
• Layout: Added spacing setting between detail views on layout creation (RH-73941)
• Layout: Added Status Bar To Layouts Panel (RH-91341)
• Layout: Allows creating multiple amounts of the same layout at once (RH-43059)
• Linetype: Added Purge button to Linetype document properties (RH-86772)
• Linetype: Linetypes panel supports multiple selection (RH-86505)
• MatchSrf: Improved multiple matches for G2 (RH-91084)
• Menu: Recent files and start splash include .rws files (RH-34856)
• MergeAllFaces work on degree 2 surfaces (RH-10693)
• MergeEdge: Improved workflow (RH-80332)
• MergeFaces: Added support for breps (RH-53530)
• Mirror: Object option allows selecting a line or a planar curve to define the mirror plane (RH-91263)
• Mouse & Trackpad: “Always pan parallel views” not respected when middle mouse button is used for view rotation (RH-95016)
• New NextDetail command (RH-81112)
• New PrevDetail command (RH-81113)
• Notes: Added “Restore cursor position” to Notes panel (RH-85574)
• Notes: Added search UI to Notes panel (RH-23212)
• Notes: Remembers text cursor location when Notes panel regain focus (RH-23213)
• OffsetSubD: Added CapEdges=Smooth/Weight %/Crease option for solid offset (RH-59749)
• OffsetSubD: Added Offset = ControlPoints / SurfacePoints option (RH-58984)
• Options: Allows importing multiple display modes at once (RH-81931)
• Ortho: Added DominantOrtho advanced setting (RH-84559)
• OSnap From: Using “From” after another “From” uses the previous “From” point as the basepoint (RH-1567)
• OSnap: Allows End and Near snapping to the polyline being drawn (RH-91021)
• OSnap: Implemented SendToBack support in visibility testing (RH-86475)
• PointDeviation: Added “Curve divisions” setting to panel (RH-90157)
• PointDeviation: Added “SurfaceMinPointCount” setting to command-line and panel (RH-90158)
• PointsOn: Displays new UV indicator on surfaces (RH-56040)
• Print: Supports saving PNG and TIFF files with transparent background (RH-10758)
• Properties: Added context menu to Layer entry (RH-86935)
• Properties: Emphasizes “Planar” in Type field when all selected curves are open or closed planar curves (RH-86756)
• RailRevolve: Added ChainEdges option for rail curve (RH-85284)
• Rebuild: Not clear when preview is automatic (RH-82679)
• Rectangle: Added History support (RH-80611)
• Repeat: Commands run in Repeat command can be undone separately (RH-88607)
• Ribbon: BothSides option merges surfaces if possible (RH-5500)
• Rotate3D: Allows using a curve segment to define rotation axis (RH-90365)
• RotateView: Added advanced setting for mouse-view-rotating around selected objects (RH-57585)
• SelChildren: Added MakeChildrenSelectable option that selects hidden and locked children (RH-85160)
• SelDup: Finds polylines of same shape with different seam locations (RH-79074)
• Selection: Made single point/grip overlapping other objects easier to manipulate (RH-89243)
• Selection: Mouse over highlight for SubD/Mesh face in Wireframe mode using face filter is made more reliable (RH-41566)
• Selection: New SelEverything command that selects all objects regardless of visibility and locking states (RH-90430)
• Selection: Window and cross selection include annotations invisible in current view (RH-82308)
• SelLast: Changed to not deselect currently selected objects by default (RH-92316)
• SelLayer: Allows scriptable command to select objects at first prompt (RH-83403)
• SelLinetype: Allows typing the linetype name at the first prompt (RH-83517)
• SelName: Scriptable command, -SelName, allows selecting object at first prompt (RH-83343)
• ShowEnds: Gives feedback in command History (RH-65993)
• Shrinkwrap: Maintains mesh vertex colors and point cloud colors (RH-70891)
• Simplify colinear (RH-4029)
• Snapshot: Added parameter settings to the scriptable command (RH-65823)
• StretchDisplay: Applies current view scaling when changing display mode (RH-94006)
• StretchDisplay: New command (Not an official command) (RH-91031)
• SubD: CageEdit supports SubD control points as captive objects (RH-89189)
• TextField: PaperName supports resolving custom sheet Name (RH-95441)
• The SelBlockInstanceNamed dialog should select any pre-selected block instances (RH-60695)
• Thickness: Allows 4 decimal places (RH-89564)
• ToNURBS: Added OutputLayer=CurrentLayer/InputLayer option (RH-89414)
• Trim: Added SelectCuttingObjects option when selecting objects to trim (RH-51183)
• UDT: Added Stairlike option to Flow command (RH-83695)
• UDT: LegacyStretch command needs to highlight the control points to move (RH-87308)
• Untrim: Accepts pre-selected trimmed edges (RH-86600)
• UntrimHoles: Allows pre-selecting holes and post-selecting holes with selection window (RH-21139)
• UserText: Added “Select Function Object(s)” to context menu in Document and Layout User Text (RH-66060)

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