Tip for Architects: Display Mode for Architectural Visuals

Display Mode for Architectural Visuals

Join Mary Polites, a Rhino Authorized Trainer, as she shows how to modify a Display Mode to obtain schematic architectural visuals in Rhino without the hassle of rendering.

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Tip for Architects: White Studio Display Modes

 

White Studio Display Modes

Rhino 8 includes a couple of display modes for analyzing shape through the interaction of light and shadow. An effective way of understanding the essence of your design intention.

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Tip for Architects: 2 Point Perspective View

2 Point Perspective in Rhino

In this quick tip, learn how to make your vertical lines look vertical while staying in Perspective view.

Make your vertical lines look vertical...

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Tip for Architects: Toggling the Perspective View

Toggling the Perspective View

In this quick tip, learn how to tumble the view into an orthogonal Top view and back to Perspective using just your mouse and keyboard!

Try this exercise to toggle the view...

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Rhino 8 Tip: Modify a Sub-Object Selection

Sub-Object Modify a SubD

In this short exercise, train yourself to modify a SubD object through sub-object selection methods.

Get started with Sub-Object Selection..

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Rhino 8 Tip: Sub-Object Selection Methods

Sub-Object Selection Methods

In this quick example, learn about Sub-Objects in Rhino and Sub-Object selection methods. Sub-Object editing is a flexible modeling workflow in Rhino!

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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.

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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.