Enscape for Rhino Users - A video introduction by Simply Rhino

Simply Rhino UK has made a video introduction to Enscape, a powerful real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Rhino. In the video, you’ll learn how Enscape works as a true plugin for Rhino, allowing you to visualize, document, and design simultaneously in your Rhino environment. 

Enscape has a wealth of assets, including People, Furniture, Lighting, Trees, and Vegetation, which are explored in the video as the architectural subject is visualized. Data is exported in both still images and animations.

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Rhino User Webinar: Archicad/Grasshopper Live Connection - New recorded webinar now available!

 

Interested in the Archicad/Grasshopper Live Connection workflow but missed the last live webinar? You can watch it now on YouTube!

In this recorded webinar, architect and computational design specialist Gregor Doblinger demonstrates a complete workflow using the Grasshopper–Archicad Live Connection, while showing key Archicad functionalities and tips within Grasshopper. He also provides insights into workflow structure and live visualisation with Enscape.

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Rhino User Webinar: Archicad/Grasshopper Live Connection Workflow

 Rhino User Webinar Live and Interacting

Archicad/Grasshopper Live Connection Workflows

December 10, 2025 - 4:00 PM (CET) 

In this webinar, Gregor Doblinger from Delugan Meissl Associated Architects | DMAA will demonstrate a complete workflow using the Grasshopper–Archicad Live Connection. He will showcase the roof design of the Badischen Staatstheater as a live case study, covering shape-finding processes in Rhino/Grasshopper, adaptive base geometry parametrically linked to Archicad, and strategies for maintaining design flexibility while detailing complex structures.

The session will also explore key Archicad functionalities and tips within Grasshopper—including beams, element properties, AC nodes, and generating 2D plans—and insights into workflow structure and live visualization with Enscape.

About the speaker:
Gregor Doblinger is an Austrian architect and computational design specialist with extensive experience leading housing projects and collaborating on large-scale cultural and urban developments. He studied at the technical school for carpentry in Hallstatt before studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, where he completed his thesis. Since 2020, he has contributed to numerous high-profile projects with DMAA. His work spans architecture, computational workflows, and interdisciplinary design, including collaborations in jewelry design.

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Rhino for Architects: Streamlining the Competition Process - Recorded webinar is now available!

 

If you missed the latest Rhino User Webinar, it is now available!

Let you get inspired by Adam Buśko, an architect at C.F. Møller Architects, and learn from him how Rhino can be used as a powerful tool for competition work. The session covers practical strategies for rapid modeling, advanced use of blocks, and basic visualization in Enscape for Rhino to produce clear, impactful presentation materials.

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Rhino for Architects: Streamlining the Competition Process

Rhino User Webinar
Rhino for Architects: Streamlining the Competition Process
September 3, 2025, at 4 PM (CEST)

Learn how Rhino can be used as a powerful tool for competition work. This session will cover practical strategies for rapid modeling, advanced use of blocks, basic visualization in Enscape for Rhino, and producing clear, impactful presentation materials. The workflow is designed to save time, allowing you to focus more on the creative side of designing. Real competition examples will demonstrate how to work faster, collaborate more effectively, and maintain flexibility in designs until the final submission.

About the speaker:

Adam Buśko is an architect based in Copenhagen, working in the LAB department at C.F. Møller Architects, which focuses on early-stage design and competitions. He specializes in commercial developments, especially towers, as well as transformation projects. He has gained international experience at leading studios including BIG and Henning Larsen, working on projects across Europe. Holding a Master’s degree in Architecture from Delft University of Technology and a Bachelor’s from Warsaw University of Technology, he combines technical precision with a strong conceptual approach to deliver innovative and impactful design solutions.

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POSTPONED - Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting | Date to be confirmed

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting

Join us at our hosts, Zaha Hadid Architects, for the Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting. Following a welcome from the Grasshopper UK Meeting organizers Simply Rhino, we’ll have presentations from our hosts, Zaha Hadid Architects, and our invited guests from Buro Happold Engineers and Chaos, the developers of Enscape and V-Ray. At the end of the meeting, there will be time for conversations and networking.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Location: Zaha Hadid, 101 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7EZ
Time: 18:30-20:30
Meeting Date: To be confirmed

Presentations: 

• Vishu Bhooshan – Zaha Hadid Architects
  Integrated Design: technologies for research-enabled architectural practice; by Computation and Design (CODE) group of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

• Norbert Gräser – Chaos
  Enscape and Enscape Impact
  
  
• Rob May + Dr Al Fisher – Buro Happold
  Supercharged Design Workflows with Rhino and Grasshopper

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Enscape 4.1: New Enscape Impact add-on, Chaos AI Enhancer and Artistic Visual Modes

New Enscape Impact Add-on

Chaos AI Enhancer and Artistic Visual Modes

Enscape 4.1 brings the power of energy modeling to its intuitive real-time visualization tool. With the new Enscape Impact add-on, compatible with Rhino 8.3, architects and designers can now quickly view their building's energy performance and optimize it within their usual design workflow. The new solution significantly reduces the analysis time to a few minutes.

Artistic Visual Modes adds the ability to create images simulating pencil or watercolor drawings. Users can now create captivating presentations while reducing unnecessary distractions for the clients.

Enscape 4.1. also includes the Chaos AI Enhancer, which leverages the power of AI to elevate the visuals and export better-looking assets, such as people and vegetation, straight from Enscape. The AI engine solution identifies the correct pixel selection, ensuring better results than other AI-generated images.

Additionally, Enscape 4.1 introduces the following key features:

• New glass material and more realistic fog
• Support for machines with integrated GPUs for greater accessibility
• Additional vegetation and people assets
• Access to Chaos Cloud

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Enscape 4.0 Adds 95% Parity for Mac in First Cross-Platform Release

Enscape 4.0 is aligning its real-time functionality across operating systems. Architects can now design intuitively on any OS, using new people and vegetation assets, refined user interface elements, and a powerful denoiser to push their designs to the next level.

"With our new unified codebase, we are thrilled to deliver simultaneous feature releases for both Mac and Windows users, ensuring a consistent and optimized experience across all platforms, whenever possible,” said Petr Mitev, VP Product, Solutions for Designers at Chaos. “This strategic investment not only enhances the current user experience, but also lays a foundation for future stability and performance improvements, addressing valuable feedback from our community."

Used throughout the architectural world, Enscape is one of the easiest ways to visualize Rhino data in real time. Perfect for daily design reviews, live demos, and client coordination, Enscape moves projects forward via instant feedback, allowing architects to represent their work using the power of immersive 3D.

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Enscape for Mac: Rhino now supported

 

Enscape is a real-time rendering plugin for Rhino that allows designers and clients to quickly visualize every project element, at any time. Previously only available on Windows, Enscape has just released a plugin version for macOS.

With real-time rendering capabilities, architects and designers can make on-the-fly adjustments, visualize different design iterations, and ensure their creative vision is accurately portrayed and communicated to clients.

Enscape integrates directly into Rhino, meaning you can design and visualize in real time within your modeling tool.

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Enscape: Virtual reality and rendering in shipbuilding

 

Enscape, a real-time rendering and VR plugin, is featuring how Damen, a family-owned shipbuilding business with headquarters in the Netherlands, uses real-time visualization to optimize its design process.

They have incorporated Enscape into their projects and daily workflow as a virtual reality tool compatible with Rhino.

“One of my colleagues was experimenting with virtual reality, and we wanted to have an easy implementation tool in Rhino. That’s how we found Enscape,” says G.A. Plan Engineer Stefan van der Made.

Enscape was the first virtual reality visualization tool used in the company. While initially it was used primarily for virtual reality walkthroughs, they later discovered the benefits of creating renderings with it.

For details about how Damen uses Enscape within their shipbuilding process, you can read How This Shipbuilding Company Uses Real-Time Visualization to Optimize Their Design Process.

Enscape 3.2 offers dynamic real-time visualization and streamlined workflow with Rhino

Enscape, a leading provider of real-time visualization, 3D rendering, and virtual reality technology for the global AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry, recently released version 3.2. This latest update includes many new features that help architects and designers worldwide to transform Rhino models into immersive real-time 3D experiences, creating more vivid real-time visualizations and streamlining workflow.

Enscape 3.2 New Features

• Dynamic asset placement
  
  Users can select, place, and edit assets from the Asset Libraries into their designs via the Enscape rendering window. The Rhino model instantly reflects everything added to the rendering, offering a two-way asset placement. Users can rotate, scale, and delete an asset, and all changes will sync back to the project. Multi-asset placement is also now available to quickly populate scenes with assets such as trees, cars, and people, directly inside Enscape.
  
  
• Green building assets and materials
  
  Over 250 new assets, including 150 green building assets like wind turbines and solar panels, have been added, in addition to new materials such as organic bricks, recycled plastic, hay plastic, solar modules, solar roof tiles, and more.
  
  
• New materials and people assets
  
  
• Batch rendering of panoramas
  
  
• Panorama tours
  
  
• Upload management overhaul
  
  
• Ray-traced sun shadows in the real-time view
  
  
• Windows 11 support

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Enscape 3.1 with NVIDIA DLSS support and a new material library

Enscape, a 3D real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Rhino, is now available with new features that enable 3D renderings to be quicker and easier and provide fully immersive experiences for designers and their clients.

New Material Library

Designers can choose from over 200 predefined high-quality materials, such as wood, fabric, brick, and tile. These materials can also be imported into the Enscape Material Editor, where various elements can be edited to get the look and feel desired for projects.

New Panorama Gallery

It is easy to share and group multiple 360 panorama images simultaneously, entirely through the web browser, to create a personalized experience when presenting designs. Clients can navigate a project from a web link or even a QR code and visualize multiple rooms or compare different design options.

NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) Support

Users can now enjoy improved real-time performance of walkthroughs and higher frame rates with much lower GPU requirements. The deep learning-based upscaling technique renders internally at a lower resolution but outputs a clean and sharp high-resolution image for high-quality videos and high-performance virtual reality walkthroughs. DLSS is available to users with an NVIDIA RTX graphics card.

With Enscape 3.1, users will also enjoy:

• An improved Material Editor
• Simplified assets
• Ray-traced sun shadows

Rhino users can try Enscape 3.1 for free for 14 days...

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Enscape Educational program

Enscape’s real-time rendering features can help students to achieve so much more in their design projects. From creating lifelike design experiences to supporting effective diagnosis and experimentation, the tool gives you the ability to speed up your design process and envision better designs.

With Enscape and its Rhino plugin, you can integrate real-time rendering and VR into your workflow, helping to improve and speed up the entire design process significantly.

Enscape offers free educational licenses to both students and classrooms. To learn more about Enscape and obtain your free real-time rendering license, visit the Enscape Educational website.

And see the amazing projects done by students using Rhino and Enscape!

Give your design workflow a boost with real-time rendering!