Rhino 8 Tip: Align Objects with the Gumball

Align Objects with the Gumball

In this quick exercise, use the Gumball to orient one object to another in space.

Accelerate your workflow...

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Rhino 8 Tip: Relocate/Move with the Gumball

Relocate / Move with the Gumball

In this simple exercise, learn how to reposition the Gumball to move objects with precision to a new location. 

Speed up your workflow with Gumball!

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Rhino 8 Tip: What is Snappy Dragging?

What is Snappy Dragging?

Do you need to freely sculpt SubDs or Surface Control Points with the Gumball? Use Smooth Dragging. 

Do you need precision modeling for manufacturing? Use Snappy Dragging.

Learn more…

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Rhino 8 Tip: Solid Modeling with the Gumball

Solid Modeling with the Gumball

In this short tutorial, learn how to extrude, cut, and emboss using a curve and a solid. Booleans made simple!

Get started with the Gumball Guide...

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Rhino 8 Tip: What is the Gumball?

What is the Gumball?

Gumball in Rhino is a visual widget that appears on selected objects, providing an intuitive way to directly manipulate geometry by moving, rotating, scaling, copying, cutting, and extruding without needing to type commands or use toolbars.

In this comprehensive guide, you can easily browse through all the creation and editing Gumball tools. 

Learn an intuitive way to create and modify geometry...

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Learn Rhino 8: ShrinkWrap, Flow Along Surface, SubD, and more

 

In case you've never seen one of Kyle Houchen's (McNeel Tech and Trainer) YouTube videos.....

He's back again with a fun floral ring project that’s really a masterclass in Rhino workflows. While the design happens to be jewelry-shaped, the techniques apply to all kinds of projects—architecture, product design, decorative details, and beyond.

In this fast-paced demo, you’ll learn how to:

1. Import and begin your model from a rough sketch and build with intent (not just tracing lines).

2. Use SubD modeling with the “Rule of Three” for clean, editable geometry.

3. Arrange and orient repeating elements with FlowAlongSurface.

4. Unify complex (or messy) geometry instantly with ShrinkWrap—essential for 3D printing.

It’s a fast, flexible workflow that lets you make progressive design variations in minutes without additional work—ideal for prototyping or client presentations.

Watch the full video on the Rhinoceros 3D YouTube channel to see Kyle take this from sketch to quick rendering.

Rhino 8: Texture Mapping with the UV Editor

Learn about the updates and improvements to the Rhino 8 UV Editor in this texture mapping and material video.

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Rhino 8: Learn the User Interface

 

Learn how to navigate the Rhino 8 interface in these short videos for Windows and Mac. 

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Rhino 8: Gumball updates

In this Rhino 8 video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Gumball manipulator in Rhino 8 to model a coffee table design, starting with only a few curves.

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Rhino 8: From Mesh to Solid

This Rhino 8 video tutorial teaches how to 'reverse engineer' a low poly 3D scan into a smooth closed solid.

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New lighting features ... in Rhino 7

With light falloff, Rhino 7 introduces new light falloff types, such as Linear and Inverse Squared. These features decrease the light's intensity as it travels through the scene, closely mimicking how lights behave in the real world.

Check out light fallout in this one-minute video.

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Check out Block Attributes in Rhino 7

 

Have you tried Block Attributes? Save time by making your blocks smart with Attributes.

Attributes attach data to blocks. Configure Attributes to store a part number, cost, location, color, material, or other details about the inserted block. When you insert a block with attributes, the attribute value is updated and stored with each block instance.

Change Attributes at any time from the Properties panel.

Attribute information extracted from a model can be imported into a spreadsheet to produce reports, schedules, or a bill of materials.

Check out Block Attributes in this one-minute video...

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Grasshopper Component Placeholders

Have you ever opened a Grasshopper definition that contained missing dependencies? The new Rhino 7 feature, Grasshopper Components Placeholders, can help.

This new feature lets you know where those missing components belong in the definition and keep their connections.

Grasshopper Components Placeholders is often useful when updating older definitions. Once the definition is open, you can find and replace them with the correct components.

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Clash detection, new in Rhino 7

Clash is a Grasshopper component that searches a large number of objects and finds the intersection points of objects that touch each other. Clash lets you quickly detect and eliminate collisions in complex models, particularly useful in architecture, engineering, and construction.

Discover what else is new in Rhino 7.

Getting Started Live - Rhino for Windows

   

New to Rhino? Join McNeel trainers for a free live session to help you get started  fast and efficiently. You can also access the recordings of previous sessions here...

Details and registration...

Gradient Hatch, new in Rhino 7

Have you tried gradient and transparent hatching?

Use Gradient and Transparent Hatches to create expressive 2D drawings. These beautiful Hatch styles allow illustrators, drafters, interior designers, architects, or anyone producing 2D drawings to create complex gradients and transparency. All with a few settings that are easy to understand, access, and manage from a single place.

Learn about using gradient and transparent hatches to enhance your 2D drawings and illustrations. 

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Post Effects in Rhino 7

Before and after the denoiser post effect

Post Effects is new in Rhino 7. 

Learn how to use post effects in Rhino 7 to enhance your rendering by removing noise, creating bloom effects, and adding blur with depth of field.

LEARN about Grasshopper in 20 minutes

  

Grasshopper is a parametric design tool that uses intuitive visual programming methods to help design professionals in modeling, production and data management. This video series presents an overview of what Grasshopper is and key concepts of geometry, data and modeling logic.

Watch here...

LEARN about Rhino in 25 minutes

  

New to Rhino? Watch this series of short videos that will get you from zero knowledge to building your first 3D organic models!.

Watch here...

SnapShots for project presentations

Have you tried SnapShots? We've much improved this feature for Rhino 7.

Use SnapShots to organize your model into different scenarios. This is an excellent tool for project presentations and visualization.

Try all the options.

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Have you tried Emissive Materials?

Have you tried Emissive Materials? It's a new feature in Rhino 7.

Do you need to create backlit screens and buttons? With Emissive Material, you can convert any object into a light source in the scene, casting rays into its surrounding environment. 

Learn more about using Emissive Materials to convert any object into a light source.

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Use text fields to keep your documents current

 

Have you tried Enhanced Text Fields?

Keep your design documentation current by using text fields. Text fields can be used in title blocks, annotation objects, and notes that update automatically as your design changes, preventing errors in large drawing sets. Text fields automatically update, ensuring that design changes are always accurately captured. 

Rhino 7 features 6 improved text fields and introduces 11 new text fields. In addition, in Rhino 7, annotated blocks allow you to reuse your content on different layouts and across all your projects. 

Learn more about using the Enhanced Text Fields.

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Have you tried RefitTrim?

Use RefitTrim, one of the new modeling tools in Rhino 7, to create higher quality transitions between neighboring surfaces. Learn more about using RefitTrim.

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SubD: Create smooth, seamless surfaces

 

There are dozens of new Rhino 7 features. You might have missed SubD, one of the new modeling tools in Rhino 7. Use SubD to make beautiful organic forms. Check out SubD in this 2-minute video. 

Explore other Rhino 7 enhancements for Windows and Mac.

Have you tried MultiPipe?

There are dozens of new Rhino 7 features you might have missed. MultiPipe is one of the new commands and Grasshopper components in Rhino 7. Use MultiPipe to make smooth, complex blends.

Check out MultiPipe in this 1-minute video.

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Don't want to write code to create new Rhino commands? Try Grasshopper Player

There are dozens of new Rhino 7 features you might have missed. Have you tried Grasshopper Player? You can create new Rhino commands without writing code.

Check it out in this 1-minute video.

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Have you tried RibbonOffset?

Have you tried the RibbonOffset feature in Rhino 7?

For mold makers and tool designers, here's a 1-minute video introduction to RibbonOffset. Use RibbonOffset to create your mold splits and parting surfaces, then refine your surface with Rhino's improved Blend commands. 

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Have you tried PBR materials?

 

Have you tried the Physical Based Rendering (PBR) materials feature in Rhino 7?

See an introduction to PBR materials to get endless variations in style and materials in this 1-minute video. You can also find hundreds of free PBR rendering materials with this Google search.

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Have you tried Named Selections?

The NamedSelections command opens the Named Selections panel that saves selection sets. Check it out in this one-minute video.

Or see how to use Named Selections in the Rhino Help document.

Explore other Rhino 7 enhancements for Windows and Mac.

Have you tried EdgeContinuity?

Check out this new analysis tool in Rhino 7 (1 min video).

EdgeContinuity displays a graphic (quills) and a numeric indication of the difference in position, tangency, or curvature continuity across pairs of surface edges.

See how to use EdgeContinuity.

You can also explore other Rhino 7 enhancements for Windows and Mac.