Modeling upholstery detail with SubD in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino

 

In their latest free video, Authorized Resellers Simply Rhino look at modeling upholstery details in SubD with Rhino. Simply Rhino’s senior Rhino trainer, Phil Cook, takes us through creating deep buttoning, creasing, and pleated features with a 1970s-style lounge chair as the subject.

Rhino’s complete set of SubD tools makes workflows for creating this detailing easier than ever, and Phil shows the tools and workflows you can use.

Find out more about the video and watch it here...

Mastering Scan-to-Model Workflows in Rhino 8 by Sabit

McNeel Europe is excited to announce a technical webinar delivered by its reseller Sabit, focused on one of the most transformative updates in Rhino 8: the new Reverse Engineering workflow.

Many designers and engineers working in Rhino 5, 6, or 7 have long struggled with dirty mesh data and time-consuming manual tracing. Rhino 8 introduces a fundamental shift with tools like ShrinkWrap and QuadRemesh, making mesh-to-CAD processes faster and more intuitive than ever before.

This webinar will skip the basics of scanning and dive straight into the technical challenge of converting raw mesh data into production-ready geometry.

Key Topics:

• ShrinkWrap: Creating watertight solids from damaged or incomplete meshes in a single click.
• QuadRemesh + SubD: Converting chaotic scan data into clean, editable, and structured topology.
  
• Mesh to NURBS: Professional techniques to prepare your models for manufacturing and CAD export.
  
• Workflow Optimization: Leveraging the new UI and Auto C-Plane to reduce repetitive tasks.

Event Details:

• Date: March 3, 2026
• Time: 19:00 (CET)
  
• Location: Online
  
• Language: Polish 🇵🇱
  
• Expert: Anna Smigielska-Raczka

This session is ideal for Polish-speaking Rhino users looking to evaluate the ROI of upgrading to version 8 and for professionals seeking to optimize their reverse engineering speed.

More information and registration...

Rhino User Webinar: Free Form to Fabrication - New recorded webinar now available!

 

If you were unable to attend the latest Rhino User Webinar live, it is now available to view!

Ignacio Fuentes-Cantillana Monereo guides you through the fundamentals of SubD in Rhino and Grasshopper—how its geometry enables complex forms with crisp creases—through a quick form-finding exercise and real project examples. He then moves on to fabrication: panelization, machine-learning-aided layout, and how SubD data drives milling and robotic workflows to deliver complex results.

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SubD Modelling in Rhino - new tutorial by Simply Rhino UK

Simply Rhino UK have announced their latest free Rhino video tutorial. In the video, their senior Rhino trainer, Phil Cook, looks at a SubD modelling workflow to create a soft yet structured packaging pouch. Phil starts with some 2D guide curves and then demonstrates how to create the pack in simple steps. We are shown how to create a dimensionally correct ‘rigid’ version for production and then how to create a more irregular version for visualization.

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Rhino User Webinar: Free Form to Fabrication on November 4

Rhino User Webinar: 

Free Form to Fabrication

Wednesday, November 4, 2025, 4:00 PM (CET)

This webinar will guide you through the SubD workflow, from free-form design to practical fabrication.

We will begin by exploring the fundamentals of SubD in Rhino and Grasshopper, focusing on how its unique geometry enables the creation of complex shapes with defined features, such as creases. We’ll use a form-finding exercise to give structure to a primitive form, showcasing the process with examples from our own projects.

Next, we'll shift our focus to fabrication strategies. We'll cover panelization and discuss how machine learning methods can be used for efficient panel layout. We'll show how a SubD's information is invaluable for both milling and robotic processes, demonstrating how to use prototypes from various projects to achieve complex manufacturing outcomes.

Speaker: Nacho Fuentes-Cantillana Monereo is an architect, computational designer, and curious mind currently based between Barcelona and the jungles of Yucatán.

In short, his work weaves digital precision with organic logic—always aiming to create spaces, objects, and systems that feel both futuristic and deeply grounded

Complete details and registration...

Fluidic Expressions V2.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

Free Online Webinar by DesignMorphine

July 26, 2025, 3-7 PM UTC

The Fluidic Expressions V2.0 webinar by DesignMorphine explores advanced architectural design using Rhino, with a focus on the SubD modeling technique.

Fluidic Expressions V2.0 explores the synthesis of dynamic geometries into spatial narratives that immerse an environment in the highest realms of technical expertise and emotional connection. The session aims to teach participants how to create futuristic, fluid, and organic architectural forms by mastering the control of edges and surfaces in complex digital models.

This DesignMorphine webinar covers tangible design strategies as well as cutting-edge methodologies, designed to further expand your creative power, sharpen your architectural sense, and transport your expression to higher planes of clarity and flexibility.

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Rhino User Meeting in Porto (Portugal) - Save the date!

Rhino User Meeting Porto

📅 Date: May 30, 2025

🕓 Time: 9:00-18.30

📍 Venue: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP)

McNeel Europe, in collaboration with FAUP, is organizing the first Rhino User Meeting in Portugal on May 30. The event is an opportunity to learn about the latest Rhino and Grasshopper features and how they are applied in practice in various design, architecture, and engineering disciplines.

Why you should come:

• Discover the latest Rhino 8 and Grasshopper features: ShrinkWrap, PushPull, SubD, Section Styles and more!
• Meet Rhino experts and learn from their presentations and projects in architecture, engineering, footwear, computational design, and digital fabrication.
• Network and collaborate: Connect with fellow professionals, sponsors, and industry leaders. Participate in discussions, share ideas, and explore new opportunities.

Would you like to take part? 

The event is open in different categories:

👤 As a participant: Tickets for the event will go on sale soon on our website events.mcneel.eu. They include catering for the event (coffee breaks, lunch, and drinks).

🎤 As a speaker: If you would like to be one of the speakers at the event and receive a free ticket, please fill in this form. Places for speakers are limited.

🚀 As an exhibitor: You can showcase your Rhino-related plugin or service. Ask us how to participate.

Stay tuned! Registration and the event program will be available soon.

Contact us for any questions...

 

MIA Robotic Hand - Recorded webinar now available

 

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

Learn how the award-winning MIA Hand, a robotic hand for amputees, was designed by the Italian company Elastico Disegno to be worn with pride and help the user overcome practical difficulties in daily life.

During the webinar, you will see how SubD and PTC Creo played a key role and how Grasshopper was used for the customization.

Watch the video now...

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Rhino User Webinar: MIA Robotic Hand

Rhino User Webinar

MIA Robotic Hand

12 February 2025 at 4:00 pm (CET)

This webinar presents the award-winning MIA Hand, a robotic hand for amputees. It was designed to be worn with pride and help the user overcome the practical difficulties and the social stigma of losing a limb.

This session will cover how MIA Hand was designed with SubD, jointly developed with Rhino and PTC Creo, and how Rhino with Grasshopper was used for the customization.

About the speaker:

Guido Cherici is an industrial designer with a master in interface design. He is one of the founding partners at Elastico Disegno, a Product Design studio based in Turin, Italy.

Founded in 1998, they work together with clients to recognize opportunities, identify innovative ideas, and transform them into actual products, be it an electronic device, a toy, an industrial kitchen, or anything in between. Thanks to their cross-industry experience, Elastico Disegno provides a full range of services from concept to product for a broad range of companies worldwide.

Complete details and registration...

Free spherene workshop at Footwearise 2024 Barcelona (4-5 December)

As part of the Footwearise 2024 Barcelona conference, there are a series of workshops, including:

Free spherene workshop
4 December, 19:00 -20:00 & 5 December, 16:00 - 18:00
Online or on-location (Footwearology Lab and McNeel Europe)

Spherene is an API and a plugin for Grasshopper that helps to minimize material and maximize strength. It allows designers to create optimal material properties for various 3D printing methods, minimizing the need for support and speeding up your CAD workflow.

In this free workshop, you will learn what Spherene can do and how to apply it to footwear through two use cases taught by expert teachers: René Medel (Senior Digital Creation Engineer at Framas) and Jesus Marini Parissi (Computational Design Engineer at Moon Rabbit Adaptive Lab).

This workshop is streamed live online, but if you are in Barcelona for Footwearise, you can join in person. The first part of the workshop takes place at our Footwearology lab, and the second part is at the European HQ of McNeel, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper.

The spherene workshop is meant for design professionals with at least a basic to intermediate knowledge of Grasshopper.

Wednesday, 4 December, 19:00 - 20:00

• Introduction to spherene by Daniel Bachmann and Ralph Baertschi

 Thursday, 5 December, 16:00 - 18:00

• 30-minute demo of SubD Modeling for footwear parts by René Medel
• 1-hour practical workflow to apply ADMS in footwear geometry by Daniel Bachmann
• 30-minute footwear parts analysis with Intact Solutions in Grasshopper by Jesus Jesus Marini Parissi

Register for free at https://www.footwearology.com/footwearise (scroll down to the bottom of the page)...

Teacher Workshops by McNeel Europe

 

Join our free online Rhino/Grasshopper workshops to catch up on what's new in Rhino 8. These sessions are for tutors, teachers, and professors in the EMEA region. Proof of status is required.

· September 3 at 10 AM CEST: Shrinkwrap & QuadRemesh 
· September 3 at noon CEST: Push-Pull, Clipping Planes & Sectioning 
· September 4 at 10 AM CEST: SubD Modelling
· September 4 at noon CEST: Rendering & Presentation
· September 5 at 9 AM CEST: Introduction to Compute 
· September 5 at noon CEST: GH Data Types 

Once registered, we will send you a confirmation email with more details regarding the session. You can join one, two, or all.

Got any questions? Drop us an email!

SAVANNA3D for Rhino 7 & 8 new blocks

SAVANNA3D for Rhino 7 and 8 library contains over 1,600 detailed 3D architectural models in the 3DM file format, plus a few parametric Grasshopper definitions for creating parametric models.

These models, which include furniture, fixtures, 2D-people, office equipment, TVs, and more, are ready to be inserted or imported into Rhino 7, giving you a head start. They come with preset materials and can be edited like any other Rhino object. All materials and blocks are fully compatible with Rhino 7 and are made of NURBS, SubDs, or Grasshopper parametric definitions.

Additionally, discover the new blocks created just for you. All these SubD models are included in Chapter 7.5 - 3D Wheels and Transportation, featuring modes of transportation such as scooters, bikes, and skates.

Explore what's included in the SAVANNA3D library by scrolling down to the What's included section and preview how to use the blocks + get around 40 free blocks from the library by downloading chapter 2.1.

View the catalog here!

Enroll and download the entire SAVANNA3D Rhino 7 and 8 library; it's yours to keep for as long as you like. Please refer to the License Agreement. The subscription includes all 1,600+ blocks plus any new blocks added sporadically during the twelve-month subscription. 

Enjoy 20% off with coupon code RHINO3DEDUCATION20 at checkout for a limited time!

Rhino User Webinar: New Rhino 8 Features Applied to Jewelry - by Riccardo Pietro Visentin (in Italian)

Rhino User Webinar
New Rhino 8 Features Applied to Jewelry

8 May 2024, 16:00 (CEST)

This webinar focuses on new features in Rhino 8 that change how jewelry is designed. These features cover both design in the narrow sense and the visualization and presentation of designs.

For design in the narrow sense, concrete examples of application and method strategies will be shown, including the targeted use of SubD and Grasshopper to create useful model variants. 

Special focus will be on using the new PushPull command, associated with the new Gumball features, to quickly manage the insertion spaces of gems, serial elements, and engraved and embossed text. How the new features, if well applied, enable faster work will be shown. 

For design visualization and presentation, the focus will be creating eye-catching previews to generate images and short animations for functional communication with clients.

Riccardo Pietro Visentin is a Creative Digital Designer, consultant, 3D designer, and trainer for digital innovation in multiple design areas. He has developed specific expertise in the design of jewelry, eyewear, and fashion accessories.

Specifically in jewelry design, he has been active in the field for over 40 years. He has created training and consulting paths to introduce and improve digital design and fabrication in companies in the jewelry supply chain. He is the Founder & Owner of AUREASERVICE Design Studio, an Authorized Rhino Training Center since 2005.

Complete information and free registration... 

Rhino Student Suite *Academic Offer*

Attention students! We are excited to inform you about the Rhino Student Suite. A special offer for you!

When you purchase the Rhino 8 educational license or educational upgrade, you not only gain access to Rhino's robust design software tools but also receive five complimentary courses as part of this educational package, which includes:

- Introduction to Rhino
- Rhino Intermediate
- Step-by-step Introduction to SubD
- 2D Technical Drafting with Rhino
- Rendering with Rhino

Buy the Rhino 8 educational license or educational upgrade below:

Take advantage of this learning opportunity! 

Note: This offer is only available on the McNeel Miami online store in the Americas.

SubD Crease in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino UK

SubD Crease in Rhino 8 by Simply Rhino 

What is SubD Crease in Rhino 8?

SubD Crease introduces weighted creases to Rhino. These allow you to add soft, defined transitions to be added to a SubD form without increasing complexity.

What’s in the SubD Crease Video Tutorial?

In this Simply Rhino video Phil Cook, our Senior Rhino trainer, starts by explaining the new command using a simple example and comparing this to the older Rhino 7 workflow before moving on to a practical example of an automotive sketch model.

Here, Phil demonstrates adding and controlling character lines to the model and how the new SubD Crease command allows for easy iteration at the design stage. There are also general tips on SubD layout and creating a custom display mode.

Complete details and video by Simply Rhino UK...

Video tutorial on a new Rhino 8 command: ShrinkWrap (in German)

What is ShrinkWrap?

Charles Panke from Filou created this video in German on ShrinkWrap, one of the new Rhino 8 features.

Using this command, you can create a watertight mesh from surfaces, solids, meshes, SubDs, or any combination, whether open or closed. And if you have point cloud data, ShrinkWrap can create meshes directly from that, too.

What is ShrinkWrap ideal for?

ShrinkWrap is the tool you choose to create:

• Meshes for 3D printing
• A solid union mesh from multiple objects
• A solid mesh from 3D scan data fragments
• Meshes without internal self-intersections
• Offset meshes for shelling
• Meshes from point clouds during reverse engineering
• Valid closed meshes from broken or often hard-to-repair geometry

ShrinkWrap video tutorial

In this video you will learn:

• How to create an editable geometry
• The use of ShrinkWrap for the modeling of radii
• How to create complex wall thicknesses in NURBS

Please note: German is the language used throughout the tutorial.

More details and video at Filou...

SAVANNA3D R7 with new SubD blocks

 

The SAVANNA3D for Rhino 7 library contains over 1,600 detailed 3D architectural models in the 3DM file format, plus a few parametric Grasshopper definitions to create parametric models.

All these blocks are 100% NURBS, SubDs, or Grasshopper parametric definitions made in Rhino 7. Plus, discover the new blocks created for you; all are SubD models included in Chapter 7, which provides for cocktail glassware and lounge chairs.

Explore what's included in the SAVANNA3D R7 library by scrolling down to the curriculum section and preview how to use the blocks + get around 40 free blocks from the library by downloading Chapter 2.1 for free!

View the catalog here!

Subscribe to the SAVANNA3D R7 library to download the entire library; it's yours to keep for as long as you like. Please refer to the License Agreement. The subscription includes all 1,600+ blocks plus any new blocks added sporadically during the twelve-month subscription. 

Enjoy 20% off with coupon code: RHINO3DEDUCATION20 at checkout for a limited time!

xNURBS Rhino Plugin V6.1 Released

xNURBS announces the availability of Version 6.1. And V4/V5/V6 customers can get a free upgrade to V6.1. V6.1 includes a number of enhancements, e.g., improving surfacing quality and reducing the number of control points needed to satisfy the required precision, etc.

xNURBS also produces a tutorial video, which explains the xNURBS settings in detail and helps users to understand how to use xNURBS efficiently and correctly.

The following is a short answer to "why xNURBS".

Key Features of xNURBS:

• Unlimited capacities for solving NURBS: Its optimization algorithm can solve virtually any NURBS surface in milliseconds (regardless of the constraints' complexity).
• High-quality surfaces: For a given set of constraints, xNURBS’ optimization algorithm uses an energy-minimization method to generate the smoothest NURBS surface among all possible solutions. The generated surface quality is outstanding.
• xNURBS is one super powerful NURBS tool that fixes virtually all surfacing issues for existing CAD software.
• Easy to use: It uses one simple UI for all kinds of NURBS modeling.
• Super robust: xNURBS is rock solid and works flawlessly.
• Native CAD surfaces: xNURBS is based on NURBS, i.e., the native CAD surfaces, which can be directly used for any CAD modeling operations without geometry translation.

Download and details...

Alienometry by Peter Donders

Peter Donders has been kind enough to share his latest "Alienometry" models, all done in SubD, imagining how aliens could look.

"The gold armor mask is to make them look more human,

no arms, no legs, all is mind controlled.

They hover on whatever gravity is available on whatever planet. They transport in the Mech Eggs.

Bringing the message, "There is no time only from point A to point B; the faster you can move, the less 'time' you need to get there." You could have been there in quantum space even before you went there.

The physical model will be 3D printed and hand-finished blue silver leaf and gold leaf, and come in two sizes: small 224 x 113 x 314mm and big 448 x 226 x 628mm. Available on demand.

Understanding the Science of Product Design

Jr Neville Songwe, Industrial Designer Professor at SCAD, has published a book with Carmen Andrisani, titled An Industrial Design Guide Vol. 01: Understanding the Science of Product Design.

This book targets industrial design students, design professors, design practitioners, and others interested in industrial design (product design). It offers a guide or roadmap by providing: Design Templates, 7 Historic timelines, 50 Schemas, 100 Drawings, and Illustrations. Rhino (NURBS and SubD) was used to develop and illustrate all the 3D CAD concepts in the book, featured on pages 2, 7, 11, 57, 87, 101, 180, 206, and 207.

The book is available for purchase from the following links:

Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Walmart

Price: $56.99 

Questions? Contact Jr Neville Songwe at indusdesignbook@gmail.com.

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