This list will change during the development of Rhino WIP.
Welcome to our Rhino work in progress project. The Rhino WIP requires a Rhino 8 commercial/educational license key to try.
Rhino 9 Features
Developer Tools:
Display:
- Display: Direct3D Display Engine
- Prettier: A new Zebra Display
- Transparency: Transparency color does not have any effect in the display
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: Non-Rectangular Details
- Sectioning: Section Style Table
- Sectioning: SectionTools
- Text: Text Masks
- Workflow: Black/White Switching
- Workflow: Crosshair Size
- Workflow: Markups
- Workflow: New Clipboard Features
- Workflow: Offset
- Workflow: Stretch
- Workflow: Tracking for GetPoint
- Workflow: Trim/Extend Fence
- Workflow: Isolate to Viewport
File I/O:
- File I/O: Audit3dmFile Graphically
- File I/O: Pack and Go
- File I/O: USD File I/O
- File I/O: Navisworks
Grasshopper:
- GH1: Drafting - Section/Clipping Planes
- GH1: New Components
- GH1: Rendering - Materials
- GH1: Rendering - Texture Mapping
- GH1: Rendering - Textures
Licensing:
Modeling / Editing:
- Modeling / Editing: FilletEdge / BlendEdge / ChamferEdge Improvements
- Modeling / Editing: FilletSrf / ChamferSrf improvements
- Modeling / Editing: Patch
- Modeling / Editing: ShapeMap
- Modeling / Editing: Selection Undo Stack
- Modeling / Editing: SpaceMouse
- Improvements: Boolean improvements
- Improvements: Point Cloud Splitting
- Improvements: SubD display
- Rebuild: Rebuild command (elmo based)
- 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
Rendering:
Requirements:
- Requirements: Papercuts
- Requirements: Regressions
- Requirements: Discontinue Intel support on Mac
- Requirements: Other Bugs
User Interface:
- User Interface: General Performance Improvements
- User Interface: Icon Redesign
- User Interface: Transfer Settings
- Command Line: Command line reboot
- Improvements: General review GUI
- Instant Aliases
Rhino 9 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)
- Block: Exported from Block Manager includes definition properties (RH-85589)
- 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)
- Distance: Allow measuring distance between two selected points (RH-87389)
- 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)
- 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: Allows resetting properties of reference layers from linked blocks (RH-12131)
- Layout: Added “New Detail” Button to Layout Panel (RH-81408)
- Layout: Added spacing setting between detail views on layout creation (RH-73941)
- Layout: Allows creating multiple amounts of the same layout at once (RH-43059)
- Linetype: Added Purge button to Linetype document properties (RH-86772)
- Menu: Recent files and start splash include .rws files (RH-34856)
- MergeEdge: Improved workflow (RH-80332)
- 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: 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: Window and cross selection include annotations invisible in current view (RH-82308)
- 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, works with preselect and allows selecting object at first prompt (RH-83343)
- ShowEnds: Gives feedback in command History (RH-65993)
- Simplify colinear (RH-4029)
- Snapshot: Added parameter settings to the scriptable command (RH-65823)
- SubD: CageEdit supports SubD control points as captive objects (RH-89189)
- 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)
- UntrimHoles: Allows pre-selecting holes and post-selecting holes with selection window (RH-21139)
- UserText: Added “Selection Function Object(s)” to context menu in Document and Layout User Text (RH-66060)
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