Rhino is a versatile 3D modeler used by designers for modeling organic forms into CAD models. It’s used widely in industries including architecture, industrial design, product design, multimedia, and graphic design.

Bring Your Designs to Life

Rhinoceros, commonly known as Rhino or Rhino3D, is a 3D CAD modeling software package that enables you to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing.

With Rhino, you can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. Available for both Windows or macOS, there are no limitations on complexity, degree, or size of the model you design beyond those of your hardware.

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  • Works Fast
    Works Fast

    Even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed.

  • Get the Accuracy
    Get the Accuracy

    Needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything form an airplane to jewelry.

  • No Limits
    No Limits

    Model any shape you can imagine. Includes free-form 3D modeling tools.

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What is Nurbs?

Non-Uniform Rational Basis Spline are mathematical representations of 3D geometry used for accurately describing simple to complex curves and surfaces with precision.

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Rhino3D 8

Affordable Solution for Professional Designs

When you use Rhino, you don’t need any specialized hardware.

  • It’s NOT a subscription-based software!
  • It’s an affordable purchase price and you just have to pay once for a forever license.
  • All licenses are permanent and do not expire.

Features

  • save money
    Affordable

    Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20-50 times more. More designers have access to Rhino because of its affordable price.

  • design to reality
    From Design to Reality

    Delivers the accuracy to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, & manufacture objects from airplane to jewelry. Model any shape you can imagine.

  • accessible
    Accessible

    Removes all complexities associated with CAD modeling software with its simple to use software interface. Focus on your design being distracted by the software.

  • compatiblity
    Compatibility

    Compatible with other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.

  • versatile across industries
    Versatile Across Industries

    Used in industrial design, architecture, film & set design, vehicle styling, just to name a few. There’s no limit to your imagination!

  • handle complexities
    Handle Complexities

    Ability to read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES files. Let Rhino do the hard work for you.

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Rhino 8 Commercial License

Rhino 8 for Mac and Windows

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Rhino 8 Student or Faculty License

Rhino 8 for Mac and Windows

Student or Faculty License

* Available to the US and Canada only

Rhino 8 Commercial License Upgrade

Rhino 8 for Mac and Windows

Commercial License Upgrade

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Rhino 8 Student or Faculty License Upgrade

Rhino 8 for Mac and Windows

Student or Faculty License Upgrade

* Available to the US and Canada only

*Rhino software is shipped electronically. Please allow up to 1 business day for your order to be processed.

Rhino 8 Tool Highlights

Design, model, present, analyze, realize

Rhino 8 has new modeling tools like ShrinkWrap, a huge speed boost for Mac users, simplified modeling workflows, SubD Creases, improved clipping and sectioning tools, a more customizable user interface, a faster render engine, new Grasshopper data types, and much more…

Shrinkwrap

Create Watertight Mesh

ShrinkWrap is great for 3D printing applications to create watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, SubD, and point clouds.

ShrinkWrap is ideal for creating:

  • Meshes for 3D printing.
  • A solid union mesh from multiple objects.
  • A solid mesh from 3D scan data fragments.
  • Meshes without internal self-intersections.
  • Offset meshes for shelling.
  • Meshes from point clouds when reverse engineering.
  • Valid closed meshes from broken or often hard-to-repair geometry.

Built for Mac

New in Rhino 8
Metal

Metal

Rhino for Mac has reached new heights of speed on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Powered by Metal, this latest display pipeline ensures hardware-accelerated graphics, offering high frame rates and support for large resolutions. Even in complex, detailed models—especially those with lots of lines, curves, hatches, and annotations—you can now pan, zoom, and orbit fluidly without dropping frames. Depending on your model, speed increases can be 24 times or more.

New in Rhino 8
Save and Restore Window Layouts

Save and Restore Window Layouts

Window Layouts allow you to quickly configure Rhino’s interface to focus on the task at hand. Design your own to show only the tools you need.

New in Rhino 8
Layer Manager Enhancements

Layer Manager Enhancements

Layers are essential to an organized model. Group related objects together and control the parts of your model that you view, edit, print, or even render in the same way.

  • Search Bar: Provides a more manageable approach when working with models containing a large number of layers.
  • Section Style: Column allows for the assignment of section styles per layer when you use a clipping plane to create sections and elevations for documentation.
  • Improved Layer Management: Enhanced Drag and Drop to reparent and reorder layers.
New in Rhino 8
Rendering

Rendering: Fast Feedback

Rhino quickly creates beautiful images for your presentations. With its extensive library of materials, advanced lighting, and camera controls, Rhino Render helps you present your creative vision. Rhino Render works as a real-time raytraced display mode, so you get fast feedback on your material, texture, and lighting choices.

  • Updated Cycle Rendering Engine: Cycles much faster than V7 on Mac, improved speed on NVIDIA cards, and faster on AMD GPUs using AMD HIP.
  • Improved Rendering UI: User Interface for Rendering, Materials, Textures, and Environments is more compact, efficient, and interactive.

SubD Creases

Design in Organic Shapes

New in Rhino 8, SubD Creases create a feature between a smooth and a sharp edge, great for making fillet-like features for a more organic look. SubD is a new geometry type that can create editable, highly accurate shapes for designers who need to explore organic shapes quickly. Unlike other geometry types, SubD combines free-form accuracy while still allowing quick editing. SubD objects are highly accurate and can be converted directly to manufacturable solids. You can also convert scan or mesh data into SubD objects, then optionally to NURBS.

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Simplified 3D Modeling

New in Rhino 8
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Making Modeling More Accessible

Rhino 8 adds new intuitive features and tools for common solid creation/editing tasks. This allows you to stay in single Perspective view while modeling.

New in Rhino 8
PushPull

PushPull

Grab a face and push or pull it, extruding or extending. PushPull speeds up modeling by using curves to add or remove volumes from existing surfaces.

New in Rhino 8
Gumball

Gumball

Quickly Move, Rotate, Scale, Copy, Cut, and Extrude geometry without typing commands or clicking a toolbar button. This makes the Gumball a versatile direct modeling tool for concept modeling interior and exterior architectural forms, certain furniture styles, SciFi models, and working with SubD objects.

New in Rhino 8
Inset

Inset

Inset offsets edges inward on a mesh, SubD, or polysurface face: an easy way to make subfaces that can be PushPulled to define a concept in a few clicks.

New in Rhino 8
Auto CPlanes

Auto CPlanes

Creating or changing CPlanes often disrupts the modeling workflow. Rhino 8 now has Auto CPlanes, which auto-align to a selected curve, surface, mesh face, or subobject. Automatic CPlanes make it easier to work in a single 3D viewport, making it simple to draw on the face of an object.

Clipping and Sectioning

New in Rhino 8
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Section Styles

Rhino 8 introduces a number of clipping and sectioning enhancements to help support various drafting and fabrication workflows. Section Styles is a property of objects and layers. It includes hatch, fill, and boundary settings. Use this feature to create section details of your model.

New in Rhino 8
Selective Clipping

Selective Clipping

Clipping allows you to slice through your design, turning off the display of parts of the model. Now, with Selective Clipping, you can choose a subset of objects and layers to clip. You can even set a custom depth to isolate a specific part. With complex models, this focuses communication where it matters most.

New in Rhino 8
Dynamic Vector Drawing

Dynamic Vector Drawing

Generate dynamic 2D drawings of sections and elevations to use for drafting. You can also reference in 2D layout. The output of section curves, hatches, and background is organized in layers. With the layers panels, you can control the visibility of parts of your drawings. This allows you to view drawings in layout alone while hiding in modeling space. You can view sections without the background geometry in one detail while showing the background in the other.

New in Rhino 8
Clipped Views

Clipped Views

Use section views that clip parts of your model to help illustrate and communicate the interior details. Rhino supports workflows to generate fast-clipped section views that you can reference in 3D viewports and Layouts.

New in Rhino 8
Sectioning for Fabrication

Sectioning for Fabrication

Clipping planes can be used to extract sections through your model to use in prototyping and fabrication processes such as laser cutting. You can also extract slices of a big model to fabricate using CNC routers or 3D printers.

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Rhino 8 Windows and Mac

Rhino 8 works for both Windows and Mac. The latest version is packed with new features and improvements.

With Rhino 8, Mac users can use the latest version of Rhino without the need to run the software in a Windows environment through Bootcamp. Rhino 8 for Mac opens the CAD world for macOS community. The native application brings familiarity to both Apple users and experienced modelers alike.

* Please purchase this product if you reside in USA and Canada only. Software is shipped electronically. Please allow up to 1 business day for your order to be processed.

System Requirements for Rhino 8 (Mac/Windows)
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Rhino 8 for IPad

Rhino for IPhone or IPad

Rewritten from the ground up, the new iRhino 3D performs and feels exactly like Rhino. The official Rhino 3dm viewer for iOS. View and present your work on your iPhone or iPad.

  • Pan, zoom, and orbit with a tap or drag of your finger.
  • Conveniently load models from your device or any cloud storage using a built-in file browser.
  • Use the AR mode to see your model in space.
  • Integrated markup tool lets you draw on top of a view.

Commercial Software for Education

Rhino software is provided to students, faculty, and schools at academic pricing to promote the use of 3D technology in education.

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The NURBS modeling software helps students explore, develop, and communicate ideas through creativity and design.

  • Substantial discount for education
  • Same features as the commercial version
  • No watermark or other limitations
  • Does not expire
  • No additional maintenance or support fees

If you require assistance for individual or classroom purchases, please contact us.

* Educational purchasers must provide proof of current school affiliation such as student ID, current class schedule, school email address, etc.

Industry Applications

Rhino is one of the most versatile 3D modeling software available in the market. No matter the scale, whenever a model needs to get from your screen to a real, built object, you will find Rhino. Its valuable and affordability makes it an attractive tool for use by many professionals in various industries.

  • Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
    Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

    Rhinoceros with Grasshopper is a robust 3D modeler for architecture, engineering, fabrication, and construction. Rhino is heavily used for freeform roofs, parametric facades, repetitive components, versatile shapes, or complex structures. Along with various plugins, Rhino integrates with BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflow.

  • Scan-to-CAD Export
    Scan-to-CAD Export

    Rhino’s intuitive surface modeling tools let you model the most complex surfaces accurately for design and fabrication. It uses accurate NURBS surfaces to help model any aspect of a vessel. Its flexibility lets you create your design in many different ways and does not lock you into one predefined approach, so that it may be used in all phases, from schematic design work to fabrication details.

  • Jewelry Design
    Jewelry Design

    From the smallest boutique to the world’s largest manufacturers, Rhino powers the jewelry designers’ needs! Rhino also serves as a host platform for several industry-leading jewelry design plugins such as CrossGems, Stuller’s MatrixGold®, and CounterSketch® to make designing even faster and more efficient. Whether you’re doing signature custom designs or mass manufacturing, Rhino can help.

  • Landscape Design
    Landscape Design

    Rhino’s modeling tools are used by landscape architects, urban planners, town council technicians, constructors, green space designers and many other professionals. Rhino’s 3D modeling tools combined with Grasshopper’s parametric tools and landscape-specific plugins provide a complete software solution for landscape design.

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Grasshopper

Grasshopper is a visual programming environment tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3D modeling tools. Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build generative forms from the simple to the awe-inspiring. Grasshopper also has a very rich add-on library.

Rhino Developer Tools

developer tools

Rhino pushes the boundaries of 3D modeling with developer tools that are free, royalty free, and include free support.

The tools for customizing Rhino include:

  • RhinoCommon SDK (.NET)
  • C++ Plug-ins (Windows only)
  • Food4Rhino
Rhino Developer Documentation

Featured Plug-ins

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Mesh2Surface

Mesh2Surface is a practical reverse engineering (Scan to CAD) solution that’s affordable to get you the results you need, faster and easier. The plugin contains simple but efficient tools to optimize the process of converting digitized objects from non-contact 3D scanners to perfect CAD models.

Features
  • Align object to world coordinate system.
  • Extract shapes (i.e. planes, spheres, cones, torus, and freeform surfaces).
  • Fit constraint primitives.
  • Find symmetry of an object.
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Bongo

Brings professional animation into Rhino, using familiar keyframe tools found in most high-end animation packages.

Features
  • Move, scale, and rotate directly in Rhino.
  • Objects and viewport animations are editable in the Rhino window using simple drag and drop.
  • Modify your objects and motion data without losing valuable time changing between programs.
  • Easily preview your animations inside Rhino, in real time, in any shading mode. Then render straight to an animation file using any Rhino renderer.
Veesus

Veesus Point Cloud for Rhino

Veesus Point Clouds for Rhino plug-in brings the power of Veesus’ XStreamEngine to McNeel’s Rhino CAD modeling software, allowing you to work with point clouds of any size natively in the Rhino environment.

Features

Once the point cloud has been loaded into the Rhino environment, Veesus Point Clouds for Rhino also offers powerful point cloud manipulation tools including:

  • slicing, clipping, smoothing, lighting, magnification, color ramp, and export.
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