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What is new with Rhino plugins?

Rhino Plugin News

February 2026

Termite is a plugin for Liquid Deposition Modeling 3D printing, designed specifically for clay and other paste-based materials. The December webinar, Termite AI, is now in the food4Rhino webinars playlist . It focuses on an intelligent design co-pilot to help architects and designers in the early-stage design workflow.

Rhino and Grasshopper News

Shaping a Wooden Landscape: Designing a Double-Curved Timber Ceiling with Rhino & Grasshopper is part of the Rhino User Webinar series. Join us as we explore the "wooden landscape" of the KJ Den Haag residential tower, designed by Powerhouse Company. This webinar will focus on one of the project's highlights—a 9,000 m² double-curved wooden ceiling.

Check out food4Rhino for a wide range of plugins, such as Grasshopper Gold for jewelers, Swordfish 3D for the marine industry, or Rhino2CATT, which allows acousticians, architects, and designers to prepare complete CATT-Acoustic models within Rhino. Many plugins are demonstrated in food4Rhino's webinar series, recorded on YouTube.

For urban planning, MetaMAP has an open-source Grasshopper plugin to generate building geometries and terrain.
RhinoArtisan 6.5 for jewelry design and manufacturing has been released, and is now compatible with Rhino 8.
Gemvision has released its update, MatrixGold 3.11. Many new features are included, such as Global Parametric ON/OFF, which lets you toggle the entire parametric system for a design on or off with one click.
ShapeDiver provides interviews and in-depth articles to help Rhino users:
- ShapeDiver interviewed industrial designer Andrés Roppa, founder of Frame-Stock, about using Frame Maker for eyewear design.
- Learn how CD Peacock uses Rhino and Grasshopper to design customizable rings.
- What is the story behind ShapeDiver's App Builder 101? Learn about the challenges and solutions for this web app development tool.
Nature-Render 2.3 for Rhino is a real-time physics-based rendering plugin that runs on Rhino 8. It supports advanced rendering effects such as HDR, caustics, depth of field, and volumetric lighting.
If you are unable to attend our Rhino User Webinars, recordings are available. A few recent ones are:
- This YouTube webinar demos the Archicad/Grasshopper Live Connection workflow.
- In From Spaghetti to Lasagna!, learn how the plugin, D2P, can help you split your definitions into manageable chunks and organize your geometry into layers.
- In Free Form to Fabrication, Ignacio Fuentes-Cantillana Monereo guides you through SubD fundamentals in Rhino and Grasshopper.
Carbonfly is an open-source Python library and Grasshopper toolbox for indoor airflow and air quality simulation.
Segmeridian for Rhino is a semi-automated medical image segmentation tool.
RhinoNC offers bundles or preconfigured packages of its CAM software modules that let you buy just the machining capabilities you need (milling, turning, trimming, etc.).
SAVANNA3D has added to its library of 3D architectural blocks for Rhino 7 and 8. Featured are essential items for kitchens and laundry rooms.
Become proficient in Grasshopper with the help of Grasshopper Level 1 Specialist Certification.
Simply Rhino has published the meeting notes from its October Grasshopper UK User Group meeting . Presentations were made by Sybarite, Eckersley O'Callaghan, VisualARQ, and LandsDesign.