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This is a shameless plug for a new plugin we’ve been working on that we hope the Rhino community will find useful. Please ignore if plugs aren’t your thing!

Runchat is a visual canvas for creative workflow automation. It is very much inspired by Grasshopper, but works with a smaller library of 4 nodes for generating and editing media, running language models, executing JavaScript, or making API requests.

We’ve been working on a plugin for Rhino that brings Runchat right into the Rhino viewport, so you can interact with your models directly. (We’ve also got a grasshopper plugin). If you want to give it a try, Search Runchat in the package manager. Here’s James doing a quick demo:

Why use it?

  • Generate textured meshes from images using Trellis, Hunyuan, Meshy, Tripo, etc. — and import them straight into Rhino.

  • Import Rhino screenshots into Runchat and “render” them with image-to-image models.

  • Import and export SVGs for “live tracing” inside Rhino.

  • Connect any web service — read/write to Google Sheets, run web searches, fetch API data, etc.

  • Generate and run (or a lot of the time crash) Python code.

What does it cost?

  • If you’ve already got a fal or openrouter account you can use Runchat for free with your own API keys.

  • Or, If you can’t be bothered managing keys, there’s a cheap plan where we handle it for you with a small markup or a more expensive plan that gives you model access at cost with zero markup.

  • All plugins are free.

Why did we make this?

  • Copy-pasting and importing/exporting between Rhino and other apps breaks flow and reduces experimentation. Bringing these tools into one place (Rhino) makes them feel native and opens the door to a lot of creative processes.

  • We couldn’t find any existing plugins that made it easy to connect to generative APIs on the internet.

  • Image to mesh models are getting better quite quickly, and we’re curious to see how they can impact more conventional modelling workflows.

If you want to give it a go download it from the package manager.

If you have a cool idea and run out of credits, just ask and we’ll ping you a topup.

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