Introducing Rhino Studio Series: Architecture

Rhino Studio Series: Architecture is a free, multi-season YouTube curriculum from McNeel North America that teaches architectural design thinking and Rhino proficiency together. Rather than touring software features, the series follows studio logic: Start with conventions, standards, and design reasoning—then use Rhino to develop and communicate the work.

Designed for students, educators, and emerging architectural designers, the series treats architecture as a sequence of informed decisions. Each season includes six episodes, a continuity project, and downloadable Student and Educator Toolkits that can support studio teaching, technical coursework, or independent learning.

Season 1: Architectural Drawing

Season 1 begins with a hand sketch of an accessory dwelling unit and develops it into a complete, coherent 2D drawing set ready to print. The work establishes a foundation in representation, drafting standards, graphic hierarchy, and clear documentation—essential skills for any architectural workflow.

The project is a 1,000+ sq ft ADU, capped at 100 sq m, which will evolve through the planned seasons—from initial drawing and massing through later stages of architectural development and fabrication.

The Episode Sequence

Work through the six episodes in order:

• Episode 1 — Drawing Standards & Sketch Import: Turn a hand sketch into a scaled, layered Rhino file.
• Episode 2 — Drafting Site & Context: Establish orientation, boundaries, and a readable site plan.
• Episode 3 — Drafting a Floor Plan: Develop the horizontal cut, spatial organization, and walls with real thickness.
• Episode 4 — Drafting Elevations: Use lineweight, proportion, rhythm, and depth to communicate the building’s vertical faces.
• Episode 5 — Drafting Sections: Draw the vertical cut to explain height, light, material, and spatial experience.
• Episode 6 — Layouts & Annotations: Build sheets, add builder-oriented dimensions, and export a clean PDF drawing set.

Built for Learning and Teaching

The season toolkit includes a guide, episode guides, and templates in feet, inches, meters, and millimeters, with established drawing standards.

The core workflow is plugin-free and supports both Imperial and metric users. For educators, publicly available course plans, assessment rubrics, and critique guides make it straightforward to incorporate the season into a syllabus.

Start Watching

Watch the complete Season 1: Architectural Drawing playlist on YouTube.

Download the files, templates, guides, and educator resources from the Season 1 announcement.

food4Rhino webinar: Build an AI-Native Design Practice (October 14, 2026 at 5 PM CEST)

 

food4Rhino webinar
Build an AI-Native Design Practice

October 14, 2026 at 5 PM CEST

For studio owners, project leads, and design technology leaders rethinking how AI fits into their practice: what if you could build an AI system tailored to your team? As AI gets better at 3D modeling and using our software, how far can it actually take an entire project? We’ll demo workflows across Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, and multiple files, and show how everyone on a project can collaborate with shared context in Reer Project Spaces. And actually, we already have the best ingredients for AI. We’ll showcase how scripts, workflows, internal tools, and team expertise can become agent capabilities that everyone can share, reuse, and build upon.

Join us to explore how AI can go from “just another tool” to a configurable system that reshapes how our practices operate.

Speakers

Shaw Chen, CTO at Reer
Pedro Cortes Nieves, AI Engineer at Reer

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New plugin - SmartMenu brings commands closer in Rhino 8

Discover SmartMenu – a configurable, cursor-centred command interface for Rhino 8.

Rhino offers a vast range of tools, but frequently moving between the model, toolbars and command line can interrupt your workflow. As custom commands and macros accumulate, keeping everything organised can also become a challenge.

Developed by CAD Projects, SmartMenu keeps your most-used tools close to the cursor. Middle-click within a Rhino viewport to open a compact menu containing native Rhino commands and custom macros, organised into colour-coded groups. Create favourites and switch between task-specific menus to suit different stages of your work.

SmartMenu also includes a context-aware command HUD. When an active Rhino command presents options, the HUD displays them directly inside the viewport, helping reduce cursor travel and keeping your attention on the model.

Menu layouts, groups, colours, tooltips and HUD appearance can all be customised. Complete setups can also be backed up and transferred between computers, making it easy to maintain a consistent workspace.

SmartMenu is designed for architects, designers, engineers, fabricators and anyone looking for a faster, more adaptable way to work in Rhino.

Available for Rhino 8 on Windows. Developed by CAD Projects Australia.

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AECtech 2026 Annual Conference

AECtech 2026 Annual Conference

By CORE studio | Thornton Tomasetti

New York, NY | November 9-15, 2026

AECtech returns to New York City for its annual gathering of architects, engineers, designers, developers, and technology leaders. The week includes tech tours, a tech crawl, workshops, a two-day symposium, and a 26-hour hackathon.

Tech Tours
November 9 | Approximately 3:00 PM-7:00 PM (EST)

Enjoy contemporary New York City projects with the architects, engineers, and delivery teams behind them. Tour start times vary.

Tech Crawl
November 10 | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM (EST)

Join your colleagues for a walking tour of architecture and engineering firms, design studios, and software companies. Each crawl includes office tours and presentations on the teams’ processes and practices.

Workshops
November 11 | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM (EST)

Spend the day learning practical workflows from design innovators and software experts. Workshops focus on tools and methods that can improve—and expand—design practice.

Symposium
November 12-13 | 8:00 AM-5:00 PM (EST)

Hear presentations, discussions, and panels from leaders in AEC design and technology. The two-day program examines current practice and what may be ahead for the industry. The symposium is available in person and via livestream.

Hackathon
November 14-15 | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM (EST)

Form a team and build something in a 26-hour hackathon, starting Saturday morning and running until Sunday afternoon. AECtech’s Hackathon is for programmers, developers, engineers, and others of all levels.

All events are in person, except the Symposium Live Stream. Find ticket information and event details on the AECtech conference page.

INTERFACE: Hack the Space Between—A 24-Hour Hackathon

INTERFACE: Hack the Space Between

#SF Tech Week

Saturday, October 10, 11:00 AM—Sunday, October 11, 5:00 PM

INTERFACE is a 24-hour hackathon that challenges the best devs to reinvent how humans interface with machines, the world, and each other. Every breakthrough in computing has been an interface breakthrough: The mouse, the touchscreen, Brain-Computer Interface. We're now living through the biggest interface explosion in history, and INTERFACE gives students the hardware, APIs, and creative space to define what comes next. This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

 

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food4Rhino webinar: Talk to your Rhino - Raven AI V2 launch! (October 7, 2026 at 4 PM CEST)

 

food4Rhino webinar

Talk to your Rhino - Raven AI V2 launch!

October 7, 2026 at 4 PM CEST

What could you create if you could talk to Rhino? Join Moritz Rietschel and Philipp Hölzenbein for a masterclass in Raven CAD V2 and discover a new way to create, edit, and automate with AI. Building geometry that stays parametric and editable lets you explore design iterations and work deeply integrated into your existing files; V2 unlocks a new level of productivity and joy in Rhino. See how Raven drives your existing Rhino plugins, writes new ones on the fly, or supercharges your Grasshopper work. Across architecture, marine engineering and yacht design, product design, mechanical engineering and beyond, let a conversation transform how you work in Rhino.

Speakers

• Moritz Rietschel is co-founder of Raven, building at the frontier of AI capabilities and CAD. His work builds on research at UC Berkeley from early 2024, bringing early LLMs into CAD as AI-collaborative tools with Prof. Kyle Steinfeld and robotic fabrication with Prof. Simon Schleicher. Moritz has lectured internationally on AI-based creative tools, published at ACADIA and the IJAC journal, hosted workshops at MIT and Tongji, and contributed to international research conferences.
• Philipp Hölzenbein is co-founder of Raven. He studied Architecture at TU Munich and began his career as an architect before moving to the Boston Consulting Group, where he spent four years focusing on energy infrastructure and AI projects. Motivated by the gap between design intent, digital capability, and fabrication, Philipp began rethinking how AI can augment creativity in architecture and design.

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Production-Ready Jewelry in Rhino 3D by Sabit

Production-Ready Jewelry in Rhino 3D

Master the professional jewelry 3D modeling workflow!

This comprehensive video, made by Authorized Resellers, Sabit, is designed specifically for working bench jewelers, 3D designers, and "switchers" who want to create flawless, manufacturable pieces in Rhino. Skip the abstract theory and learn how to engineer precise NURBS geometry for the real world.

You will learn how to design with proper tolerances, create functional mechanical parts (like clasps and hinges), account for metal shrinkage, and leave accurate spacing for gold/silver purity stamps. 

By the end of this course, you will have built a diverse, professional-grade 3D jewelry collection from scratch—including French pave and halo rings, flexible tennis bracelets, and intricate English clasp earrings—all 100% ready for flawless 3D printing and casting.

• Software requirements: Rhino (Bonus lessons include Materialise Magics for print prep and KeyShot for rendering).
• Format: 100% self-paced online video course with lifetime access.
• Date: October 25 (Also available completely on-demand)
• Duration: 12 hours
• Language: English

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Parametric Design with Grasshopper 1 by Navalapp

Parametric Design with Grasshopper 1 introduces practical parametric 3D modeling focused on yacht geometry, from Grasshopper fundamentals and interface and module assembly to creating and refining NURBS surfaces. 

You will learn to build clean, functional definitions, control relationships between geometric elements, and use parameters to adjust dimensions, proportions, and shapes as a design evolves. 

Through hands-on exercises such as modeling a cockpit, floor liner, bathing platform, sheer line, hull-side and bow surfaces, and a hardtop, you'll learn a workflow that combines Grasshopper with Rhino. By the end, you'll be able to parametrically construct the center-console boat geometry demonstrated in the course and continue developing your own definitions.

Tutorial Format: Videos

Language: English

Level: Beginner

Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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RhinoArtisan 7.0: The AI Release

 

RhinoArtisan 7 is now available! This isn't simply an update: It brings agentic AI, organic modeling, advanced stone settings, smarter pavé, real-time rendering, automation, and manufacturing tools into one complete jewelry workflow. Work with AI inside RhinoArtisan or connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other agents directly to the real tools you use to design, price, check, and produce each piece. 

Check out the list of new features...

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Online training: Maritime Hull Design and Fairing - New editions in October and November 2026

Online Training - Maritime Hull Design and Fairing

New editions in October and November 2026

Rapid Hull Modeling for Ships / Yachts / Workboats / Multihulls

Class-A Fairing – Final Design – Fairing for Production – Hull Optimization – Reverse Engineering – Hull from GA/ Lines-Plan – Advanced Analysis – Modeling Strategies – Developable Hulls

Rhino enables accurate, flexible, and fair vessel hull design with the Rapid Hull Modeling Methodology.

Naval architect Gerard Petersen from RhinoCentre developed this method in collaboration with other marine industry professionals. After years of providing training and services to leading companies in the marine industry worldwide, RhinoCentre developed three unique training modules to guide you in modeling, fairing, and reverse engineering vessel hull shapes.

Three training modules are covered in four two-hour live training sessions. Between the live sessions, you practice the exercises through self-study with instructional videos and written exercises.

Sign up now for the October & November editions...

D5 Lite for Rhino: Real-Time Visualization and AI-Assisted Design Exploration

D5 Lite for Rhino brings AI-assisted exploration and real-time visualization directly into the Rhino design workflow, letting designers evaluate ideas while their models are still evolving.

Built for Rhino 8 on Windows, D5 Lite supports two complementary ways of working. AI Generation uses the current Rhino view as a basis for exploring visual directions through presets, prompts, and reference images, helping designers investigate possibilities before fully developing them in 3D. Real-Time Rendering visualizes the actual Rhino geometry with PBR materials, lighting, shadows, and environmental conditions, allowing designers to evaluate the decisions already present in the model.

Together, they create an iterative workflow between modeling and visualization:

Model → Explore → Evaluate → Refine

Designers can adjust geometry in Rhino, examine the result, and continue refining the model rather than waiting until the design is finished to begin visualization. Materials, lighting, Geo Sky settings, and D5 proxy models can also remain associated with the Rhino project as it develops.

When you need more advanced visualization or presentation output, you can continue from D5 Lite into D5 Render, carrying forward the visual work established during design development.

D5 Lite for Rhino is currently available in Beta and is installed through D5 Launcher.

Complete info...

Webinar: Topography & Grading Tools with RhinoLands

Working with terrain in Rhino?

Join this free webinar to see how RhinoLands—Rhino + Lands Design — adds dedicated tools for topography, grading, and earthwork calculations directly inside Rhino.

Starting from contour lines, points, or other terrain data, we’ll show how to create and reshape a 3D terrain, define slopes and elevations, generate cut-and-fill operations, and calculate earthwork volumes.

This session is for Rhino users in architecture, civil engineering, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture.

September 29, 2026 — 17:00 CEST 

Free registration for the webinar...

Rhino User Webinar: Rhino to KeyShot - New recorded webinar now available!

The recording of our Rhino and KeyShot webinar is now available on YouTube.

In this session, Garin Gardiner from KeyShot and Aman Agrawal, founder of Cademy & CreativeMutation, present a practical workflow for using Rhino, Grasshopper, and KeyShot in product design and visualization.

The webinar covers how to prepare a Rhino model for rendering, import it into KeyShot, apply materials, and set up the scene. It also includes examples of using Grasshopper to create complex surface and hole patterns more efficiently.

The session provides a useful overview of how these tools combine in a product design workflow, from model preparation to final visualization.

Watch the video...

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Join Hispanic design innovators on September 24

   

Digital Design Community | Autumn Event 2026

September 24, 2026, 6:00 PM-8:30 PM EDT

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

7 World Trade Center

250 Greenwich St

New York, NY 10007

Join the Digital Design Community, SOM Arquitectos, SketchPro, and Joaquín Tobar Martínez for an evening exploring innovation, technical craft, and representation in design technology in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The event features three distinct presentations on AI workflow, product innovation, and digital fabrication led by Hispanic practitioners. Learn about emerging tools, celebrate Hispanic leadership in tech, and network with peers from across the industry. Open to all architects, designers, and tech enthusiasts!

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food4Rhino webinar: Kova PedSim - A Socially-Driven Pedestrian Simulation for Grasshopper3D (September 16, 2026 at 5 PM CEST)

food4Rhino webinar

Kova PedSim - A Socially-Driven Pedestrian Simulation for Grasshopper3D

September 16, 2026 at 5 PM CEST

People are at the heart of every architecture and design project, yet predicting how they will move through and experience that environment remains a fundamental challenge. 

In this webinar, Puja Bhagat and Jonathan Wong introduce Kova PedSim, a socially driven, agent-based pedestrian simulation plugin for Grasshopper that brings human behavior into the design process from the earliest stages. Rather than treating pedestrian analysis as a final validation step, Kova PedSim enables designers to explore how movement, social interactions, and spatial experiences evolve alongside their design. 

Through a live demonstration, attendees will learn how Kova PedSim's simulation engines can model pedestrian movement across urban and architectural scales, generate meaningful analytical outputs, and integrate seamlessly into parametric workflows. 

Speakers

• Puja Bhagat is a computational designer who holds an M.Arch in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a B.Arch from Penn State University. Her work bridges design, simulation, and behavior to support more informed, human-centered design decisions. By integrating the physical and digital realms, she develops context-specific and dynamically adaptive solutions that foster interconnected spaces.
• Jonathan Wong is a computational designer who holds an M.Arch in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association, and a B.Arch and a B.S. in Mathematics from Penn State University. His work focuses on developing computational workflows and digital tools to enable architects and designers to make informed, data-driven decisions at every stage of the design process. He is particularly interested in transforming complex analytical methods into intuitive tools that support better design outcomes.

Free registration...

Rhino User Webinar: From Footscan to Individual Shoelast - New recorded webinar now available!

 

Interested in digital orthopedic shoemaking workflows but missed the live webinar? You can now watch it on YouTube!

In this recorded webinar, master orthopedic shoemaker Martin Jaeger demonstrates how he uses Rhino 8 and custom-built Grasshopper scripts to transform a 3D foot scan into a fully individualized shoe last with integrated orthopedic correction.

The session covers the complete workflow, from cleaning and preparing the foot scan to generating and adjusting the last geometry, checking dimensions, and exporting production-ready models for milling or 3D printing.

It’s a practical introduction to how parametric tools can help shoemakers and orthopedic technicians move from traditional manual processes to a faster, more repeatable digital workflow.

Watch the video...

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Arch-e - The AI Decision Assistant for Rhino

Developed by TwinMaster, Arch-e is the AI Decision Assistant for Rhino.

Better questions. Better decisions. Better buildings. Just Ask Arch-e.

TwinMaster's Arch-e is an AI decision intelligence platform for architects, engineers, computational designers, and contractors. Arch-e works with Rhino to help professionals analyze designs, evaluate alternatives, optimize competing priorities, and make better decisions—faster.

Unlike AI tools focused primarily on generating geometry or automating individual tasks, Arch-e reasons across the many interconnected considerations that determine whether a design actually works.

One Design. Multiple Objectives.

Arch-e transforms design and project information into an intelligent digital twin and can evaluate multiple performance objectives simultaneously, including:

• Cost and quantities
• Embodied carbon
• Energy and building performance
• Daylight
• Code and compliance
• Constructability
• Engineering performance
• Risk
• Site and contextual conditions
• Operational performance
• and other project-specific KPIs, plus many more!

Instead of analyzing these considerations independently, Arch-e evaluates their relationships, identifies competing priorities, and helps teams determine the best overall design solution.

Complete details and download on food4Rhino...

Upcoming Cademy Rhino and Grasshopper Online Courses

Cademy has announced new dates for their upcoming Rhinoceros and Grasshopper online training sessions.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your skills or explore advanced workflows, these courses are designed to help you master computational design tools.

• Rhinoceros Masterclass
  Price: 395 EUR
  Oct 17-18, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 CET
  Nov 28-29, Sat-Sun | 07:00 to 14:00 PST
  Dec 5-6, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 PST
   
• Grasshopper Masterclass
  Price: 395 EUR
  Oct 24-25, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 PST
  Nov 14-15, Sat-Sun | 07:00 to 14:00 PST
  Dec 19-20, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 CET
  
  
• Computational Design Workshop
  Price: 595 EUR
  Nov 7-8, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 CET
  Dec 5-6, Sat-Sun | 07:00 to 14:00 PST 

• Ad Parametric Texture Workshop
  Price: 495 EUR
  Nov 14-15, Sat-Sun | 08:00 to 15:00 CET

• KeyShot Masterclass
  Price: 395 EUR
  Dec 19-20, Sat-Sun | 07:00 to 14:00 CET

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Rhino Developer Meeting Barcelona (September 25, 2026) - last two weeks to register

Rhino Developer Meeting at IAAC Barcelona

September 25, 2026

Put together by McNeel Europe, Anomaly Build, and Sweden Design Computing.

Hosted by IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia).

If you're into Rhino, Grasshopper, RhinoCommon, Python, rhino3dm, Rhino.Inside, Compute, Hops, SubD, the Code Editor... basically anything in the Rhino universe, this is your people. A full day of live coding, real talk from developers, and plenty of coffee.

Why you should come

• Watch real experts live-code and show how they actually work, not just polished slides.
• Deep dive into Rhino's dev tools and everything new in the ecosystem.
• Get inspired by folks working in architecture, BIM, landscape design, 3D printing, robotic milling, environmental analysis, and more.
• Hear the latest on where Rhino and Grasshopper are headed.
• Hang out, swap ideas, and grab a drink with the community — coffee breaks, lunch, and networking drinks are all included.

Who's talking

• Luis E. Fraguada — McNeel
• Iliana Papadopoulou — Reope
• Alexander Schiftner — ShapeDiver
• David Andres Leon — IAAC
• Verena Vogler — McNeel Europe
• Keyan Rahimzadeh — VIA
• Vasiliki Fragkia — infrared.city / IAAC
• Andrew le Bihan — McNeel

And don't miss the Pecha Kucha talks — fast, punchy 20x20 presentations from the community.

Big thanks to our sponsors: ShapeDiver, Raven, Motif and reer.

Grab your ticket

• General Admission: €95 (+VAT), full day + food + drinks
• Student ticket: €50 (+VAT), same deal
  
  

BSS Title Edition XIV: Grasshopper that ends inside Revit or Archicad

Edition XIV of the 

Building System Specialist Title

September 1
by PAZ Academy

Most parametric training ends where the definition ends: You get geometry, and then you get a problem, because nobody downstream can build from a definition. This LinkedIn session carries the work across the bridge—Rhino.Inside.Revit, or the Grasshopper–Archicad connection, depending on which side of the office you sit on. The output is a coordination model a team can actually work in.

Five months, three parts, eighteen levels: Rhino and Grasshopper foundations, parametric design systems, data structures, automation, optimization, Python, AI, environmental analysis, and the BIM integration above.

Taught online in English, with professors reachable in German, Hungarian and Spanish. Minimum six hours a week with constant personal mentoring. Six hours a week is the honest filter: The software is learnable, the hours are the commitment.

7'470 CHF, installments available, student rate on request. Cohorts are kept small, and seats for this edition are nearly gone.

Read how the last edition ended...

Join Grasshopper inside Revit and Archicad: the parametric layer...

Program and registration...

Rhino User Webinar: Access the power of KeyShot + Rhino with Cademy.

Rhino User Webinar

Access the power of KeyShot + Rhino with Cademy

September 10, 2026, 6 PM (CEST)

In this webinar, KeyShot and Cademy speakers will share how product designers use Rhino and KeyShot to create richer, more polished visuals.

The session covers Rhino-to-KeyShot workflow, including how to prep a Rhino model for rendering, material application and scene setup, plus powerful Grasshopper techniques and insights from Cademy.

What you’ll see in this webinar

• Workflow to create polished visuals.
• Prepping a Rhino model for rendering in KeyShot.
• Importing to KeyShot.
• Material application and scene setup.
• Using Grasshopper to create complex surface patterns and hole patterns with ease.
• Additional thoughts and insights from Cademy.

Speakers bio

• Garin Gardiner: Director of Industry and Partners Marketing at KeyShot with over 20 years in 3D graphics and design software. He served as the founding Product Manager for Autodesk Fusion 360 and held senior PM roles on Autodesk Inventor. 
• Aman Agrawal: Industrial & Computational Designer. Worked with leading consumer electronics brands; founder of Cademy & CreativeMutation.

Complete details and registration...

Rhino User Webinar: From Footscan to Individual Shoelast

 Rhino User Webinar
From Footscan to Individual Shoelast
September 2, 2026, 4 PM (CEST)

Modern orthopedic shoemaking is moving from the workbench to the workstation. In this one-hour session, Martin Jaeger will show how he uses Rhino 8 and his own custom-built Grasshopper scripts to transform a 3D foot scan into a fully individualized shoe last with integrated orthopedic footbed correction.

Instead of relying on manual plaster casting and hand-finishing, this session demonstrates a parametric, repeatable pipeline that keeps every last precisely matched to the patient's anatomy while dramatically reducing production time.

What you'll see

• How a raw 3D foot scan is cleaned, aligned, and prepared as a usable base geometry.
• Building a parametric last-generation workflow with custom Grasshopper components.
• Applying orthopedic corrections directly onto the last geometry using Rhino 8's native modeling tools.
• Verifying and controlling dimensions and measurements with Rhino 8's tools throughout the process.
• Exporting production-ready geometry for milling or 3D printing.
  

Who this is for

This session is designed for shoemakers, shoe designers, orthopedic shoemakers (Orthopädieschuhmacher), and orthopedic technicians (Orthopädietechniker) who want to bring digital, parametric workflows into last-making—no prior Grasshopper experience required.

Speaker bio

Martin Jaeger is a master orthopedic shoemaker (Orthopädieschuhmachermeister) who learned the craft from the ground up.

For the past 10 years, he has focused on additive manufacturing, and with his company Trans2form, he has made it his mission to lead his trade into a golden digital future.

Complete details and registration...

Rhino Developer Meeting at IAAC Barcelona (September 25, 2026)

Rhino Developer Meeting Barcelona

September 25, 2026

Join McNeel Europe, Anomaly Build, and Sweden Design Computing (SDC) for the Rhino Developer Meeting in Barcelona, hosted by IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). 

This one-day event brings together developers, designers, and Rhino/Grasshopper enthusiasts for live coding sessions, masterclasses, and deep dives into the Rhino ecosystem—covering RhinoCommon, Python, rhino3dm, Rhino.Inside, Rhino Compute, Hops, Grasshopper 1.0 and 2, and more.

Keynote speakers include Luis E. Fraguada, Verena Vogler, Carlos Pérez Albà and Andrew le Bihan (McNeel), along with experts from ShapeDiver, Reope, IAAC, infrared.city and VIA, sharing insights spanning architecture, BIM, computational design, robotic fabrication, and environmental analysis. 

Plus other expert computational designers at the Pecha Kucha session.

Space is very limited, and tickets are selling fast. Don't miss yours!

Tickets include access to the conference and full catering during the day (coffees, lunch, and networking drinks).

Ticket: Professional — €95 (+VAT)

Ticket: Student — €50 (+VAT)

Complete details... 

New plugin - ExcelWorks brings live Excel tables into Rhino 8

  

Discover ExcelWorks - New plugin to bring live Excel tables into Rhino 8

A direct, updatable connection between Microsoft Excel and native Rhino geometry.

For many Rhino users, getting a well-formatted Excel table onto a drawing has meant relying on screenshots, PDF conversions, CSV imports, or custom Grasshopper definitions. These workarounds can be slow, difficult to update, and often lose the formatting that made the spreadsheet useful in the first place.

After repeatedly running into the same problem in our own drafting workflow, CAD Projects Australia developed ExcelWorks for Rhino, a new Rhino 8 plugin designed to create a direct and practical connection between Microsoft Excel and Rhino.

With ExcelWorks, you select a range in an open Excel workbook and place it into Rhino. The plugin recreates the table as native Rhino geometry inside a block, retaining displayed cell values, fills, borders, merged cells, text alignment, font sizing, and row and column proportions. The result remains clean, scalable and suitable for layouts, technical drawings and documentation.

The real advantage comes when spreadsheet data changes. Rather than deleting the old table and starting again, ExcelWorks can update the existing linked block while keeping its location and scale in the Rhino document. Links can also be redefined, managed or removed through the ExcelWorks panel.

ExcelWorks is intended for designers, naval architects, engineers, fabricators and anyone who regularly transfers schedules, specifications, parts lists, calculations or other tabular information into Rhino.

Available for Rhino 8 on Windows with a 14-day free trial. Developed by CAD Projects Australia.

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Rhino Developer Meeting Barcelona—September 25, 2026

Rhino Developer Meeting Barcelona

September 25, 2026

Join McNeel Europe, Anomaly Build, and Sweden Design Computing (SDC) for the Rhino Developer Meeting in Barcelona, hosted by IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). 

This one-day event brings together developers, designers, and Rhino/Grasshopper enthusiasts for live coding sessions, masterclasses, and deep dives into the Rhino ecosystem—covering RhinoCommon, Python, rhino3dm, Rhino.Inside, Rhino Compute, Hops, Grasshopper 1.0 and 2, and more.

Speakers include Luis E. Fraguada and Verena Vogler (McNeel), along with experts from ShapeDiver, Reope, IAAC, and VIA, sharing insights spanning architecture, BIM, computational design, robotic fabrication, and environmental analysis. The day includes networking breaks, lunch, and evening drinks.

Ticket: General Admission — €95 (+VAT), includes full-day catering...

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Discover RHINO BIM IFC - parametric architecture plugin

RHINO BIM IFC is a new parametric architecture application for Rhino 8 and future versions.

Key features of the solution

• Support for importing and exporting IFC 2x3 and 4 files.
  
• Project creation with floor levels and elevation data.
• Wall creation using an integrated materials library.
• Import of cadastral data and direct linking to administrative documents.
• Fully automated bill of quantities and structural calculations, including permanent and operational loads.
• Shared template with RHINO-CVC for full compatibility.
• Parametric Jacobine-style roof windows and dormers.

A simple, efficient, fast, and cost-effective solution.

Details and download...

New bending-active timber project developed with Rhino & Karamba3D and Beaver3D

 

Developed as a viable tropical hardwood glulam hangar structure for the Global South, this project addresses the challenge of scaling timber construction in a context still dominated by massive steel and concrete industries. The structural hypothesis was a bending-active beam-string: More efficient than a conventional truss, especially in the connections, while remaining compatible with glulam production lines automated for straight elements.

Rhino and Grasshopper were used as the central parametric environment to control span, rise, subdivisions, curvature limits and cross-section constraints. The model was linked to Karamba3D for structural analysis and to Beaver3D for Eurocode 5 timber verification, including ULS/SLS checks and design-ratio visualization. The main challenge was a form-finding paradox: pre-assembly forces depend on beam inertia and system height, so simply adding material does not necessarily improve structural safety. Developed by João Pini at ITA Engenharia em Madeira and published as an article for the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, the result is a low-carbon, low-cost, and scalable structural product.

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New plugin CompositeWorks - Composite design made easier in Rhino

Introducing CompositeWorks: Composite design made easier in Rhino

Designing composite structures involves more than creating geometry. Engineers also need to define laminate schedules, calculate material quantities, manage weight, and produce clear instructions for builders.

CompositeWorks brings these tasks together inside Rhino, providing an intuitive, visual workflow for designing complex composite parts.

From geometry to laminate design

The CompositeWorks workflow is straightforward:

1. Model the basic geometry using Rhino surfaces.
2. Define your composite materials and layer structure.
3. Create reusable laminate stacks.
4. Assign the stacks to the appropriate surfaces.
5. Let CompositeWorks calculate and document the structure.

By connecting laminate information directly to the Rhino model, CompositeWorks reduces the need to manage separate drawings, spreadsheets, and weight calculations.

Calculate quantities, weight, and center of gravity

CompositeWorks automatically extracts material quantities from the model and laminate definitions. It can calculate individual part weights, complex assembly weights, and center-of-gravity information. This allows engineers to compare laminate options, monitor weight targets, and identify potential issues earlier in the design process.

Create clearer construction drawings

CompositeWorks also supports single-click creation of construction drawings. These drawings help communicate laminate regions and layup sequences to builders directly from Rhino, creating a clearer path between design and production.

The plugin is suitable for marine, aerospace, architectural, and product-design applications involving fiberglass, carbon fiber, and other FRP materials.

Getting started

CompositeWorks is currently designed for Rhino 8 on Windows and requires Rhino’s .NET Core runtime. It can be installed through Rhino’s Package Manager by searching for CompositeWorks.

Once installed, enter LaminateDesigner in the Rhino command line to begin.

Reports are currently produced in metric units. Imperial Rhino models are supported, with values automatically converted to metric for reporting.

CompositeWorks offers a more connected way to design, calculate, and communicate composite structures—all within Rhino.

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