Organic Forms & Sculptural Design (SubD) by Sabit

Classic NURBS is perfect for precise technical drafting, but when your designs require fluid, organic shapes, SubD gives you a distinct advantage.

This comprehensive, hands-on course from Authorized Rhino Reseller, Sabit, empowers designers, jewelers, and architects to transform flat sketches into complex, living 3D volumes in Rhino. You will be guided step-by-step from the core logic of polygonal modeling through a complete toolkit of advanced editing techniques.

By the end of this course, you will have built a fully realized, production-ready organic model for your professional portfolio. You will confidently transform 2D sketches into detailed sculptural forms, master retopology, and seamlessly convert your SubD designs into flawless NURBS surfaces ready for real-world 3D printing and CNC machining.

Software requirements: Rhino. Basic proficiency with the Rhino interface (equivalent to Rhino Level 1)

Format: Live online training sessions

Date: November 23 (Also available completely on-demand)
Duration: 24 hours
Language: English, Polish

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food4Rhino webinar: Bring your own robot - Pixobots provides the rest (November 11, 2026, at 4 PM CET)

 

food4Rhino webinar: Bring your own robot - Pixobots provides the rest
November 11, 2026, at 4 PM CET

A robot is a file you can use in Grasshopper. Join Zvonko Vugreshek, the Pixobots developer, to incorporate any arm—from an SO-101 desktop robot to an industrial KUKA—into your design workflow. You will create toolpaths (planar and non-planar), map the arm's reach, and check every pose for joint limits and collisions involving the arm itself, the workpiece, and the surrounding area. See Pixobots find the best position for your part and Rhino follow a physical arm in real time from the joint angles it reports, then send the solved path straight to a desktop arm or export it for any other robot. This is ideal for anyone working with robots in architecture, design, manufacturing, and research. Speaker:
Zvonko Vugreshek was trained as an architect and taught himself to code. He soon found software more interesting than 'traditional' architectural design workflows. Since then, he has worked on machine learning and optimization for the Sydney Fish Market roof at 3XN in Copenhagen, as well as custom UR10 tooling and cyber-physical façades in the robotic fabrication lab at BTU Cottbus. He has also taught machine learning to architecture students at TU Berlin whose work was exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale.

Zvonko is currently the CTO of Pixolid in Berlin, where he develops software for design and manufacturing applications, ranging from 3D-printed shoes to factory robots. He is working towards a PhD in AI for digital fabrication, more for its practical applications than for the academic title. He also develops Pixobots and has run webinars for DesignMorphine and PAAcademy.

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Grasshopper Course by Pivot

Grasshopper Course by Pivot
November 12-13

This live classroom course is for designers, architects, and engineers who want to implement Grasshopper in their work. Relevant examples and short exercises are used to introduce specific methods and help you put them into practice.

Step by step, you will build your own Grasshopper definitions. The examples cover a range of typical modeling tasks that can be solved efficiently using Grasshopper. 

The goal is for you to leave the course with a solid foundation, enabling you to further develop your Grasshopper skills on your own.

Level: Beginner/Advanced
Location: Workhouse, Ullevålsveien 76, Norway 
Language: English

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Notilus Composite for Rhino 8 released

Notilus Software has released Notilus Composite, a composite-structure plugin for Rhino 8 built for naval architects and boatyards working on FRP vessels.

Notilus Composite keeps the laminate definition on the Rhino geometry itself. Assign a laminate to a surface, run a stiffener along a curve, and get weight, center of gravity, material take-off, and workshop documentation from the same model—and have it update when the design changes.

Key features

• Material and laminate library, built ply by ply, with cured thickness and areal weight per ISO 12215-5 Annex C
• Laminated top-hat and custom stiffeners with web and crown laminates
• Panel and stiffener weights with LCG, TCG and VCG
• Bill of materials by reinforcement and core, in m² and kg
• Color-mapped laminate schedule, lamination callouts and 2D taping details
• Works directly with Notilus Scantling for ISO 12215-5 checks of the same laminates

Notilus Composite works with Rhino 8 for Windows. A 15-day evaluation license is available.

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Notilus Scantling for Rhino 8 released

Notilus Software has released Notilus Scantling, a structural rule-check tool for naval architects and shipyards, delivered as a Rhino 8 plugin and a standalone desktop application.

Structural elements are not typed in; they are selected in the model. Position, panel sides, deadrise, plate thickness, and profile dimensions are measured from the Rhino objects, and results are shown back on the geometry. Change the hull, re-read the model, and the check follows the boat.

Key features

• Elements defined from Rhino geometry, one per selected object
• Design loads derived automatically from vessel particulars
• Plates, stiffeners, girders and pillars checked against as-built scantlings
• Utilization colors and design pressures shown on the model
• Traceable report with the rule clause behind every requirement
• Supported rules: DNV-RU-HSLC Pt.3, RINA RES31, ISO 12215-5 (steel, aluminum and FRP) and ISO 11812
• Works directly with Notilus Composite: laminates and stiffeners are read from the same library, with no re-entry

Notilus Scantling works with Rhino 8 for Windows.

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Getting to know Notilus Piping: Piping and HVAC design in Rhino

Notilus Piping is a 3D piping and HVAC plugin for Rhino 7 and 8, used by yards and design offices to model every system on board on the same model as the hull and structure.

Draw a pipeline directly or convert existing lines into pipes with elbows and segments, drop in valves and fittings, and let the bill of materials, weights and spool drawings follow the model as the design changes.

Key features

• Draw pipelines or convert lines and polylines into pipes
• HVAC ducts, cable trays, and hoses modeled with the same tools
• Valves, flanges, reducers,and fittings that snap to pipe size and spec
• Equipment library with exact dimensions and inlet/outlet positions, all information in one place
• Automatic penetrations against the surrounding structure
• Live bill of materials, pipe and fluid weight with center of gravity
• Spool drawings with dimensions and component lists

From mega yachts, workboats and ships to small boats plumbed with hoses, it covers fuel, ballast, bilge, urea, seawater, and HVAC systems.

Notilus Piping works with Rhino 7 and 8 for Windows. A 15-day evaluation license is available.

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Rhino User Meeting Vienna 2026 (November 26)

Rhino User Meeting Vienna 2026

November 26

Organized by McNeel Europe, ATP, and Bollinger+Grohmann at Reaktor.

Looking for a day packed with innovation, creativity, and hands-on action? Join us for the Rhino User Meeting in Vienna and dive into the latest and greatest in Digital Design and Fabrication.

Here’s the deal

• Learn from industry pros in Architecture, Design, Engineering, Fashion Design & Accessories, 3D Printing, Robotics, AI, and more!
• Discover cutting-edge updates on Rhino Beta, Grasshopper 2, and other tools.
• Watch live demos and get inspired by exhibitors showing what’s possible.
• Bonus? It’s not just all tech talk—there’s networking and drinks to wrap up the day! Perfect for meeting like-minded folks and making connections.

Confirmed Speakers (Agenda still WIP)

• Verena Vogler (McNeel Europe)
• Matthew Tam (Bollinger+Grohmann)
• Dr.-Ing. Milos Dimcic (OnceMore GmbH)
• David Rutten (McNeel)
• Anna Heimrath (Bollinger+Grohmann)
• Evy Slabbinck (Design-to-Production)
• Pierpaolo Ruttico (INDEXLAB – Politecnico di Milano)
• Michele Blasili (Swarovski)
• Iliana Papadopoulou (Reope)
• Carlos Pérez Albà (McNeel Europe)
• Junghwo Park (Doka GmbH)

Tickets (click on the link to buy)

• General: €90 (+ VAT if applicable) early bird until 27 Oct – then €120 (+ VAT if applicable)
• Student: €60 (+ VAT if applicable) early bird until 27 Oct – then €90 (+ VAT if applicable)

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food4Rhino webinar: Arch-e – AI Decision Intelligence for Rhino and the AEC Industry (October 15, 2026, at 4 PM CEST)

food4Rhino webinar: Arch-e – AI Decision Intelligence for Rhino and the AEC Industry

October 15, 2026, at 4 PM CEST

What if AI could do more than generate content or answer questions? What if it could actually help architects and engineers make better design decisions?

Join TwinMaster and Rhino for an introduction to Arch-e, TwinMaster’s AI-powered decision intelligence platform for architecture, engineering, and construction.

Arch-e works with the tools and project data AEC teams already use, transforming building information into an intelligent environment where professionals can ask complex questions, explore alternatives, and reason across the interconnected decisions that shape a project.

During this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how Arch-e helps teams evaluate competing objectives such as cost, carbon, energy performance, daylight, compliance, constructability, and other design criteria simultaneously, rather than analyzing each in isolation, and then push the optimized results right back into their Rhino models.

We’ll also explore how Arch-e works with Rhino, how TwinMaster’s multi-agent AI and semantic digital twin technology support decision-making across disciplines and project phases, and why we believe the next evolution of AI in AEC is not simply about generating more designs but about helping professionals understand which decisions to make, and why.

Attendees will see Arch-e in action and learn how TwinMaster is building a vendor-neutral intelligence layer across the AEC software ecosystem.

Speakers:

Dr. Prasanta Bose
CEO, CTO & Co-Founder

Prasanta has spent more than four decades developing intelligent systems, predictive technologies, and advanced software architectures. He earned his master’s degree in computer science from UMass and his PhD from USC, with both focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

At Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center, Prasanta spent more than a decade working on advanced technologies, autonomous systems and mission-critical AI and Digital Twin software powering DARPA, NASA, and internal R&D programs. His work spanned symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, autonomous systems, predictive modeling, machine intelligence, and digital twins. He later served as a senior technology executive at Starbucks, leading large-scale AI and Advanced Analytics, IoT, and enterprise technology initiatives.

His career bridges several generations of artificial intelligence—from early symbolic AI and autonomous systems to today’s agentic and generative AI—and provides the technical foundation for TwinMaster’s multi-agent decision-intelligence architecture. His work has received multiple technical honors, including a 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award from the UMass Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.

Michael Jansen
Chief Business Officer & Co-Founder

Michael is an architect, technology entrepreneur, and business leader with more than three decades of experience at the intersection of architecture, digital technology, and global enterprise development.

Educated in architecture at Yale (US) and Cambridge (UK) and a Fulbright Scholar, Michael led the Asia practices of two major U.S. international architecture firms before the age of 30. In 2004, he founded Satellier, an AEC technology-enabled BIM services company backed by Sequoia Capital and Silicon Valley Bank that grew to more than 700 employees within four years and served 30 of the world’s top 50 architecture, engineering, and construction firms.

His recent work has focused on digital twins, smart cities, AEC technology, and commercializing emerging technologies for the built environment. He has raised over $50 million in institutional and private capital for three companies, developed global enterprise customer relationships, and established partnerships across the AEC technology ecosystem. His lifelong contribution to the AEC industry has been featured on CNN, CNBC, the BBC, and in numerous AEC trade publications worldwide.

At TwinMaster, Michael leads corporate strategy, commercialization, strategic partnerships, customer development, and global distribution—connecting Arch-e with leading AEC firms and major AEC software ecosystems.

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Raven Rhino World 2026 After Party - October 23, 2026, 7 -11 PM

After three full days of talks, demos, and conversations at Rhino World 2026, Raven is hosting its after-party in the heart of Barcelona (October 23, 2026,  7-11 PM).

Spots are limited, so don't wait too long. The exact address will be shared with registered guests, and more details are on the way. RSVP on the event page to save your place and get the latest updates.

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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 show how scripts, workflows, internal tools, and team expertise can become agent capabilities everyone can share, reuse, and build on.

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-centered 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 organized can become challenging.

Developed by CAD Projects, SmartMenu keeps your most-used tools close to the cursor. Middle-click to access native Rhino commands and custom macros, organized into color-coded groups, with favorites and task-specific menus to organize your workflow. A context-aware command HUD displays active command options directly in the viewport.

Customize menu layouts, groups, colors, tooltips, and HUD appearance. 

Designed for architects, designers, engineers, and fabricators, SmartMenu offers 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's 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. 

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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.

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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.

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