Upgrade to Rhino 7From Any Previous Versions will upgrade from any Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 or Rhino 6.0 to Rhino 7.0, the most significant upgrade in the history of Rhino 3D.
If you don't own an old Rhino 1.x, Rhino 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 or Rhino 6.0 you can purchase a fresh new copy of Rhino 7.0.
Rhino 7 for Windows and Mac is the best industrial design modeling software, architectural design and CAD. Complicated shapes can be directly modeled with Rhino 7 or acquired through 3D digitizers. Thanks to the most powerful NURBS based engine you can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size.
McNeel's Rhinoceros 3D also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled NURBS modeling power this Software lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.
Highlights
Rhino 7 is the most significant upgrade in its product history. You can create organic shapes with our new SubD tools. Run Rhino and Grasshopper as a Revit® Add-On with Rhino.Inside.Revit. Use the robust QuadRemesh algorithm to create a beautiful quad mesh from NURBS geometry or meshes. With this release, completely new modeling workflows have been unlocked and many steadfast features have been refined . These are the highlights:
SubD
For designers who need to explore organic shapes quickly, SubD is a new geometry type that can create editable, highly accurate shapes. Unlike other geometry types, SubD combines free-form accuracy while still allowing quick editing.
Accurate, organic modeling just got easier. Push and pull to explore complex, free-form shapes in realtime.
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.
Rhino.Inside.Revit
Rhino.Inside.Revit brings the power of Rhino and Grasshopper to the Autodesk Revit® environment.
Rhino.Inside is a new technology that allows embedding Rhino into other 64-bit Windows applications. Rhino.Inside.Revit is based on this technology and provides a platform for an unprecedented level of integration between Rhino and Revit. Grasshopper brings a collection of new components for interacting with Revit, as well as providing access to the two software APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) using its script components.
QuadRemesh
Quickly create a quad mesh from existing surfaces, solids, meshes, or SubDs—ideal for rendering, animation, CFD, FEA, and reverse-engineering.
Display
Rhino’s display pipeline balances speed and beauty, displaying your models fast, how you want them, while you work. Rhino’s display pipeline is fast and uses modern graphics hardware features, like GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. This results in fewer GPU-specific display glitches and more consistent, beautiful, and frequent frames, even with large models. Features include extremely fast 3D graphics, unlimited viewports, shaded, working views, perspective working views, named views, floating views, full-screen display, draw order support, two‑point perspective, clipping planes, and one-to-one scale to view models at full size.
Grasshopper
Rhino 7 adds some new components, and makes it easier to turn your programs into plugins:
Grasshopper Player - Turn your Grasshopper definitions into Rhino commands.
Clash Detection - Quickly find where your objects occupy the same space.
Grasshopper Component Placeholders - Placeholder component for missing plugins.
Presentation
Rhino 7 has improved presentation tools, streamlining the workflow with a major update to the Rhino Render engine, so the same look you get in your Raytraced viewport can be rendered without any changes. Support for PBR materials, a LayerBook command, and more features have been added…
PBR Materials Physically Based Rendering Materials are beautiful and easy to use.
Denoisers Denoisers produce high-quality renderings in a fraction of the time.
Emissive Materials Create self-lit objects commonly found in consumer electronics.
Light Falloff Specifies how lighting intensity changes when light travels in the scene.
LayerBook Present ideas quickly with LayerBook.
Gradient and Transparent Hatches Create attractive 2D representations in a few steps.
Rhino Refined
In Rhino 7, hundreds of bugs have been fixed, but there are also new workflow improvements like Named Selections, Mold Making tools, a Single-Line font for engraving, and improved interoperation with third-party file formats…
Named Selections Quickly save and restore previously selected objects.
Mold Making Tools For mold makers and tool designers, Rhino puts the mold creation “model-test-revise” workflow on rails.
Single-Line Fonts Improve the speed and quality of CNC engravings during the fabrication process.
Documentation
Modeling is just one part of the design process; you also need to show how to build what is on the screen. We’ve improved many parts of the documentation workflow while also focusing on the more graphically-rich illustration tools like transparency and gradient hatches…
Gradient and Transparent Hatches Create attractive 2D representations in a few steps.
Layout Management Vertical panel makes it easier to manage models with many drawings.
Enhanced Text Fields Text fields are text formulas that can dynamically update.
Development Platform
Rhino 7 brings major improvements to our free SDKs, with API refinements, better documentation, and some major new features that broaden and deepen the foundations of the geometry development platform…
And More...
Rhino 7 adds a number of new command options.
Key Features and Benefits
Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in high-end systems. Model any shape you can imagine.
Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry.
Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software.
Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software.
Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed.
Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.
Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees.
NOTE: Rhino 7 for Mac does not contain all commands found in Rhino 7 for Windows
Floating Licenses? Cloud Zoo is the answer
Cloud Zoo is a new option: It does not replace the existing license key system or Zoo, you can continue to use them. Cloud Zoo is a cloud-based license management system that:
Allows you to use Rhino by logging into the Cloud Zoo using your Rhino Account.
Allows you to track and manage your licenses and users.
Keeps track of the licenses you own.
Manages your licenses across multiple computers and users. (Run anywhere your license allows)
Allows you to use Rhino on multiple machines as long as you abide by the license agreement.
Specs
System Requirements
Rhino runs on Windows and Mac desktop and laptop computers with:
Rhino 7 for Windows
Rhino 7 for Mac
Hardware
64-bit Intel or AMD processor (Not ARM)
No more than 63 CPU Cores.
8 GB memory (RAM) or more is recommended.
600 MB disk space.
OpenGL 4.1 capable video card is recommended.
4 GB Video RAM or more recommended.
A Multiple-button mouse with a scroll wheel is recommended.
SpaceNavigator optional
Apple Intel hardware with Boot Camp optional. (Boot Camp is not supported on Apple Silicon. M1 Macs.)
Windows Operating Systems
Windows 10 or 8.1.
Internet connection for
Download.
License validation.
Rhino account for:
Technical support on the forum.
Cloud Zoo license management.
User recommendations Since we can’t test every possible hardware combination, you can get hardware recommendations from other users…
Not supported
Windows 8 and older
Windows Server (any version)
Boot Camp on Apple Silicon. M1 Macs.
Virtualization systems such as VMWare, Remote Desktop, and Parallels
Linux
ARM processors including the Microsoft SQ® 1 and 2
Hardware
Intel Apple Mac.
NOT SUPPORTED: Apple Silicon M1 Macs.
8 GB memory (RAM) or more is recommended.
AMD graphics processor is recommended.
5 GB disk space.
A Multiple-button mouse with a scroll wheel is recommended.
SpaceNavigator and SpaceMouse Wireless optional
macOS Operating Systems
macOS 11 (Big Sur)
macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave)
Internet connection for
Download.
License validation.
Rhino account for:
Technical support on the forum.
Cloud Zoo license management.
Not supported
Apple Silicon M1 Macs yet.
macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) or older
Digitizers (Faro, Microscribe)
Support & Maintenance
Technical support for Rhino 7 for Windows and Mac is available directly from McNeel by e-mail at tech@mcneel.com or by phone from 8am to noon, and between 1pm to 5pm Pacific Time at the number (206) 545-6877. For more technical support information and options please visit the Robert McNeel tech support page.
Webinars
Latest Rhino 7 for Windows and Mac Webinar from Novedge
Novedge Webinar #320: Designing 3D Patterns with Rhino and Grasshopper, with Marco Traverso
Test Rhino 3D and its other components by Robert McNeel and Associates before you make your purchasing decision.
HW Specs
Recommended System Specification
Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product.
Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run Rhino are as follows:
CPU: Intel Core i5
Memory: 16GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO P620
Hard Drive: 500GB NVMe
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Novedge, in partnership with High Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs, pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.
The purchase of the Rhino update was easy. I was having trouble loading the update. Support took a message and said they would have to call me back because of Covid. I waited over 24 hours with no reply. Tried to call back and could not get through. Eventually, I had time to work through the problem on my own. It would have been nice to at least get the call back. I deal with Covid like everyone else. The excuse is old. We have all adjusted and so should you.
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S.V.
Consistently excellent
Excellent as always from McNeel... your service was thorough and fast
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D.K.
Worthy Upgrade
Cost savings buying from Novedge and with (reduced) intro price is nice. Rhino 7 is a worthy of cost upgrade for new mesh features and many other new or improved features. Hey! It’s Rhino!! One minor issue recognizing my Rhino 6 license in cloud zoo. It didn’t for me. McNeel says they will fix Zoo. If you use Rhino, do it!
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R.T.
wonderful upgrade
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R.B.
cool new features if upgrading from version 5
Just discovering the new features but I really like it so far, particular the new Arctic and Rendered views, although I have encountered one or two annoying bugs, like it crashes when trying to use softening on edges. One other disappointing aspect is that Rhino 7 can’t use the GPU on the Mac and I think also can’t use e-gpu’s, just the CPU so it's kinda slow on rendered views and rendering and Rhino 7 won’t run on the new M1 chips yet either, so no way to buy faster hardware to speed it up. But I’m still happy I upgraded for other reasons.
The purchase of the Rhino update was easy. I was having trouble loading the update. Support took a message and said they would have to call me back because of Covid. I waited over 24 hours with no reply. Tried to call back and could not get through. Eventually, I had time to work through the problem on my own. It would have been nice to at least get the call back. I deal with Covid like everyone else. The excuse is old. We have all adjusted and so should you.
S
S.V.
Consistently excellent
Excellent as always from McNeel... your service was thorough and fast
D
D.K.
Worthy Upgrade
Cost savings buying from Novedge and with (reduced) intro price is nice. Rhino 7 is a worthy of cost upgrade for new mesh features and many other new or improved features. Hey! It’s Rhino!! One minor issue recognizing my Rhino 6 license in cloud zoo. It didn’t for me. McNeel says they will fix Zoo. If you use Rhino, do it!
R
R.T.
wonderful upgrade
R
R.B.
cool new features if upgrading from version 5
Just discovering the new features but I really like it so far, particular the new Arctic and Rendered views, although I have encountered one or two annoying bugs, like it crashes when trying to use softening on edges. One other disappointing aspect is that Rhino 7 can’t use the GPU on the Mac and I think also can’t use e-gpu’s, just the CPU so it's kinda slow on rendered views and rendering and Rhino 7 won’t run on the new M1 chips yet either, so no way to buy faster hardware to speed it up. But I’m still happy I upgraded for other reasons.
