Rhino’s new display pipeline is faster, more stable, and uses features found on modern graphics hardware, like GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. We’ve improved Rhino with the aim of helping you present your work: be it “quick and dirty” or “high-res glossy.” With major changes to Rendering, Materials, or just plain capturing the viewport, it’s now easier and faster to present, discuss, make decisions, and iterate. Presentation is key: during nearly every phase of design, you need to communicate, getting “buy-in” from clients, customers, collaborators, or the public at large. Grasshopper provides the solid foundation for many incredible third-party components ranging from environmental analysis to robotic control. Used in some of the most ambitious design projects of the past decade, Grasshopper, like Rhino, has become a robust development platform. The long beta period is over: Grasshopper, the world’s most beautiful programming language, is now a full-fledged part of Rhino. We’ve also rewritten some features and renovated workflows that needed fundamental overhauls to make them truly productive. In Rhino 6, we’ve fully embraced Grasshopper – the wildly popular visual programming language – by “baking it in.” Grasshopper is no longer beta it’s a stable development environment.

This update adds a new rendering and materials system, Grasshopper, a new display engine, Fast Make2D and enhanced drafting to the Mac version. Rhino for Mac is now at the same version level as Rhino for Windows, version 6.

Rhinoceros 6 new features