Nate Miller published his story of the beginning and evolution of Proving Ground's Lunchbox, the most widely used Grasshopper plugin as of 2025. Nate recently added more tools for geometric development and data-driven workflow for Rhino/Grasshopper.

Rhino and Grasshopper News

The online course, SubD in Rhino 7 & 8, provides a step-by-step introduction to SubD for designers who need to explore organic shapes quickly. Rhino3D.Education offers this online course and more.

Check out food4Rhino for a wide range of plugins, such as Botcha X Rhino for footwear modeling, Alpaca4d-OpenSeesGh for parametric structural analysis, and KaroroCAD Inflatable Kite/Wing Designer for designing, developing, and manufacturing inflatable surf kites.
SAVANNA3D has added a new collection of 3D model blocks, featuring bathroom cabinets, to their library of 3D architectural models.

Simply Rhino has been busy publishing interesting and helpful information:
- Did you miss the Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting last June? View the meeting notes.
- Simply Rhino published test results for an in-depth look at which graphics card works best with Rhino 8 and Rhino companion products.
Using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Weaverbird, SCAD student Berfin Erdogan was inspired to design beautiful flower vases. Read about it in Rhinozine, which features Rhino projects and is a resource for tips and tricks, tutorials, and industry insights.
On LinkedIn, Design & Develop Srl explores what computational design means to footwear design.
ShapeDiver has been working on a few things to help Rhino users:
- ShapeDiver offers a tutorial to explain its Selection Input component. This plugin for Grasshopper enables users to select geometry directly within the 3D viewer.
- A new video is available covering the integration of Speckle and ShapeDiver.
- ShapeDiver now supports the SheepMetal plugin, a Grasshopper tool for designing and preparing sheet metal parts.
- ShapeDiver interviewed Eesha Jain of CORE studio on how Thornton Tomasetti leverages ShapeDiver to transform computational design scripts into scalable engineering tools.
Read about USC's process of designing a concrete canoe for the annual American Society of Civil Engineers competition.