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La Comtesselation is a restoration project in France that merges ancient spiritual traditions with modern architecture. Using Rhino, STERLING PRESSER Architects + Engineers digitally modeled the intricate wooden framework so that a local carpenter could construct it precisely.


Rhino and Grasshopper News

The MPDA Master's program at UPC School concludes each year with a hands-on project that blends innovation, sustainability, and community.


Students and faculty designed, engineered, and built Murgula, a lightweight sports pavilion in Alp, a town in the Catalan Pyrenees. Over four months, they used Grasshopper for computational design, Karamba3D for structural analysis, and Cadwork for digital fabrication to create an efficient segmented timber shell made of planar n-gon modules. 


Construction was completed in one intensive week, during which the team installed foundations, assembled prefabricated modules, and applied a protective membrane.


  • Ant is a new AI plugin for Grasshopper that can build, edit, and explain Grasshopper definitions inside the program.

  • Check out food4Rhino for a wide range of plugins, such as OpenNest 2D polyline packing for fabrication, Terra terrain modeling, or Aurox AI-powered modeling assistant for Rhino.

  • RhinoCFD's latest release is now compatible with Rhino 8. Users can now run complex fluid and thermal simulations entirely inside their CAD environment.

  • For Rhino and Grasshopper development services, 4D Pipeline provides custom plugin development, file format support, API services, and consulting to help organizations extend Rhino's capabilities and integrate it seamlessly with existing tools.

  • RhinoArtisan 6.7 now includes Assistant, an intelligent workflow tool that lets jewelers search, edit, render, document, and price designs using natural language.

  • Want to learn about Enscape, a real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Rhino? Simply Rhino has a free video tutorial.

  • RhinoBanana is a companion web app for Rhino, a visualization tool for architects and designers. You can take a Rhino scene, push it into an AI image model, and quickly explore alternate materials, looks, and presentation visuals.
  • A recording of the webinar Using Archicad with Grasshopper is available. Check out the other Rhino User Webinars available!

  • Cyberstrak 2.0 for Rhino 7 & 8 has released a major new version, expanding its all-in-one modeling workflow.
  • Simply Rhino has published the meeting notes from the Grasshopper User Group Meeting, held in London on March 17. Read about the presentations from PLP Architecture, Milad Showkatbakhsh, Engineers AKT II, and Luis Fraguada.
  • Rhino3Dzine profiled Bayliss Boatworks and their design of custom sportfishing yachts, using Orca3d inside Rhino. See more of Rhino3Dzine's user profiles in their April newsletter.

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