


While Rhino has its own built-in rendering tools and its own add-ons (Flamingo and more recently, McNeel has built in the open source Cycles renderer), there are a range of third-party vendors looking to add their own special brand of magic. One of the most popular classes of add-on is rendering and visualisation.

The final reason for its popularity is, I suspect, the huge wealth of third-party add-ons that are available. It’s also very good value for money – the list price is 995 Euros – no subscription, no maintenance costs – and this includes the powerful Grasshopper visual scripting tool. It can create incredible forms from scratch and import and export a huge array of data types. Rhino is hugely popular among architects for its advanced surface modelling capabilities.
