This list will change during the development of Rhino 8 WIP.
Welcome to our Rhino 8 work in progress project. The Rhino 8 WIP requires a Rhino 7 commercial/educational license key to try.
Features and enhancements being worked on:
Modeling
- SubD: Creased Edges
- PushPull Workflow
- RefitTrim
- Surface Fillets
- Constraints - will continue in WIP for Rhino 9
- Multithreaded implementations for some commands
- Object Frame
- ExtractOriginalCaptives command
- UngroupAll command
- ConvertToSingleSpans command
- Sketch command: Undo option
- ArrayCrv command: StairMode option
- Bend command: NonAttenuated option
- Mirror command: Object option
- Bounce command: Object option
- Divide command: DeleteRemainder option
- RemoveMultiKnot command: RemoveFullyMultipleKnots option
Editing
- Improve performance for snapping and picking
- OSnap: % snap can be enabled when constrained to a curve
- Clipping plane sectioned geometry can be snapped to
- SelRectangular command
- SnapToSubobject command
- History: Symmetry works with cage editing
- Control polygon for cage can be selected
- Double clicking cage control polygon selects a row of cage points
- Lasso: New SelRectangular command
- AlignVertices command supports point clouds
- AlignVertices command: AverageVerticesToAdjust and OnlyNakeds options
Mesh Tools
- New mesh booleans
- Shrinkwrap
- SelMeshEdges command: ByNaked option
- ExtractMeshEdges command: ByNaked option
User Interface
- Window Layouts: Cross-platform docking and tab system for panels and toolbars
- Block Manager Rewrite
- Layer Panel Rewrite - including improved Model and Layout visibility control
- Print Dialog Rewrite
- Toolbar improvements
- Dark Theme
- SVG Icon Editor
Grasshopper
- New native types for Grasshopper 1
- Create and/or edit blocks in Grasshopper 1
- Annotations and Hatches in Grasshopper 1
- Grasshopper 2 WIP
- GrasshopperPlayer: Delete input after solve
Display
- Flair: Non-Photorealistic display styles - will continue in WIP for Rhino 9
- Metal-based display on Mac
- Performance improvements
- Clipping plane participation for objects
Rendering
- Rhino Render: Cycles Update
- Shader level support for procedurals
- UV Mapping Improvements
- Rendering Scene Presets - will continue in WIP for Rhino 9
- Visibility toggle for decals
- New Render content browser
Drafting and Illustration
- SectionTools Integrated
- Section Styles
- Reflected ceiling plan viewports
- ExtractLinetypeSegments command
- Linetype caps and joins: Print, PDF, and SVG export support cap and join settings
- Linetypes work with dimension lines and detail borders
- Capsule/Circle shape annotation frames
- Stylized curves
- Detail command: FromDetail option
- Block attribute access from text fields
- New Text Field: BlockInstanceDescription
- PrintDisplay: thickness option replaced by scale option
- Object level linetype scaling
- Object color support for clipping plane intersection geometry
File I/O
- Code-Driven File IO from RhinoCommon
- USD File export
- Copy and paste support between Rhino and AutoCAD (Windows only)
- DWG Dynamic Block Import
- SketchUp Import - add “Use group layers” and “Add objects to groups” options
- SVG and PDF Export - support linetype cap and join styles
- SVG Export - circle and arc support
- SVG Export - write layers as group tags
- STEP Export - Improve saving to cloud storage folders and paths with Asian characters
- FBX Import - add FBX Y to Rhino Z option
- Improve clipboard support between Rhino and Illustrator/Affinity/Inkscape
- DWG/DXF Import - verbose option
- DNG Import - support reference files
- PDF Import - option to import line weights
- OBJ Export - options for exporting polylines
- E57 Import (now in Rhino for Mac)
Development Tools
- RhinoCode: CPython 3 and C# scripting
- .NET Update
- Code-Driven File IO from RhinoCommon
- Code editor control
- Rendering asset access in OpenNURBS
Administration
- Package manager improvements
- Co-shipping Rhino for Windows and Rhino for Mac
Rhino for Mac Specific
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