Snapmate – Visual OSnap feedback tool for teaching Rhino

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Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share a small plug-in I made called Snapmate for Rhino 8 (Win & Mac)

I teach Rhino to beginners, and one thing I see all the time is students getting confused about whether an OSnap actually worked or not.

So Snapmate simply shows a little marker in the viewport:

  • Green dot → a snap was detected

  • Red dot → no snap detected

    (Center snap isn’t evaluated yet)

That’s it — super simple, but surprisingly helpful when you’re new to precision modeling.

Made especially with students and first-time Rhino users in mind.

Download

You can grab it here on Food4Rhino:

https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/snapmate?lang=en

Feedback welcome!

This started as a small helper for my classroom, but if it’s useful for others I’d love to keep improving it. If you run into any issues or have ideas, feel free to reach out:

:e_mail: snapmate.contact@gmail.com

https://youtu.be/GKJ1y3YIth4

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This is potentially really useful not only for teaching novice users but also for ”real work” of experienced rhino users.

My only wish would be that the green/red dots displaying snap/no-snap would be a sort of live, self updating display…

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Hi @Chris_Bahng
Isn’t ShowEnds more or less the same, or am I not getting the idea? :grimacing:
Kindly, jakob

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Snapmate color-codes endpoints that are not g0 matched properly (within file tolerance, I guess) in red, whereas properly matched endpoints are showed in green.

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Thanks, @norbert_geelen
Now I get it :slight_smile:
-Jakob

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Hi @norbert_geelen Thank you for your feedback. I’ll look into it. Chris

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@Normand As @norbert_geelen explained, it shows whether the snap succeeded or not through color. Students who’ve never used CAD before often miss whether the snap actually worked…:upside_down_face: