Rhino 8 plugin / Free Beta Access

Render your Rhino viewport with AI.

Capture your Rhino viewport and turn it into AI imagery through a simple, node based workflow. Describe it, rewire nodes, and iterate fast, all inside Rhino.

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Rhino 8 on Windows and Mac
Free during the beta
Built by How to Rhino
Install guide

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Why RhinoFrame

Describe it. Render it.
All inside Rhino.

Capture your viewport and turn it into a finished AI render without exporting screenshots or leaving the model. Compose the look as a simple node graph, the way you already think in Grasshopper, and iterate until it's right in seconds.

The same scene rendered photorealistically by RhinoFrame, with materials, landscaping, and people

A raw Rhino 8 viewport of an architectural model before rendering

Free during the beta

Right now, RhinoFrame is completely free.

While we're in beta, everyone who signs up gets full access at no cost. Early users help shape where RhinoFrame goes next, and the people who join now will get the most out of it as it grows.

Request beta access Already approved? Install it

The building blocks

A handful of nodes. Endless renders.

Each part of your render is its own node. Mix them on the canvas, swap one out, and re-run. Here's what each one does.

Viewport capture Input

Grab the active Rhino viewport in one click, in shaded, rendered, or any display mode you already use.

Prompt Input

Describe the render in plain language. Optional AI enhancement helps turn a quick line into a richer prompt.

Style Input

Lock in a look from built-in presets, or feed your own style reference images to match a mood or material.

Reference image Input

Drop in reference images to guide composition, lighting, and detail so the result lands closer to what you pictured.

Edit Input

Draw a freeform mask on a render and write a note. Only that area changes, without re-rolling the whole image.

Sketch Input

Draw straight onto a canvas, with pen, eraser, and notes, to steer composition and detail before you render.

Compare New

Wire any two images into A and B and drag the slider across. Swap sides or open a synchronized full-screen view.

Expand New

Grow the canvas around a render with a preset or by dragging an edge. The new space is painted to match and your original pixels stay untouched.

Also in the box

Fit or Fill preview on every frame
Layer-mask node with material hints
Model nodes route to best-in-class providers
Render history
Save and reuse workflows

Rhino 8 on Windows and Mac.

How it works

From viewport to render in four steps.

Capturing a Rhino 8 viewport in RhinoFrame

Step 01

Capture

Frame the shot in any Rhino 8 viewport and hit capture. RhinoFrame grabs the view in whatever display mode you're working in, shaded, rendered, or your own, so the AI starts from your real geometry instead of a screenshot you exported and re-uploaded. A safe-frame preview shows exactly what will be sent.

Composing the render with nodes on the RhinoFrame canvas

Step 02

Compose

Describe what you want in plain language, then shape the result with nodes: style presets, reference images, sketch guidance, and local edits. Wire them together on the canvas the same way you build a definition in Grasshopper, and swap any piece without starting over.

A finished AI render returned into the RhinoFrame canvas

Step 03

Generate

RhinoFrame routes your setup to the right model for the job and renders in the cloud, with a credit estimate up front so there are no surprises. The finished image comes straight back into the canvas, right next to your inputs, ready to judge in context.

Comparing render variations and saving back to the Rhino document

Step 04

Refine & ship

Change one node and re-render to explore variations, then wire two results into a Compare node and drag the slider until the shot is right. Need more room around the building? Expand the canvas without touching the render. Save the result back into your Rhino document and keep the whole setup as a reusable workflow for the next project.

Two ways to work

Stupid-simple by default. Deep when you need it.

Mode 01

Simple Mode

Capture, pick a model, hit render. A safe-frame preview, a credit estimate, and a result. Nothing between you and the shot.

One-click viewport capture
Model, aspect, size, quality
Pre-render credit estimate

Mode 02

Advanced Mode

A node canvas where viewports, prompts, styles, references, edits, and sketches connect into a workflow you can save, reuse, and share.

Prompt, style, edit, reference, sketch nodes
Compare and Expand nodes for finished renders
Saveable, reusable workflows

New in September 2026

Three new tools for finished renders.

The latest beta update adds Expand, Compare, and a Fit or Fill switch on every frame. All three are live now for everyone in the beta.

New 01

Expand

Grow the canvas around any render. Pick 1:1, 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9, or drag an edge, and RhinoFrame paints the new space to match the perspective, lighting and materials. Your original pixels are locked, so the building never changes. Handy when a landscape shot needs to become a square for the feed.

New 02

Compare

Wire any two images into A and B, then drag the slider to judge them against each other. Different prompt, different model, different season, same geometry. Swap sides, or open the synchronized full-screen view when the details matter.

The same square render shown twice in a wide frame, cropped in Fill mode on the left and fully visible in Fit mode on the right

New 03

Fit or Fill

Every viewport and render frame now has a small switch above it. Fill keeps the full-bleed look and crops the edges. Fit shows the whole image inside the frame, so a square or portrait render is never cut off on the canvas. Nothing is re-rendered, it's a view setting.

Advanced mode

Compose it. Rewire it. Render it again.

Advanced mode gives you a node canvas where viewports, prompts, styles, references, and sketches connect into a workflow. Change one node and re-render, compare variations side by side, and save the setup to reuse on the next project. If you know Grasshopper, you already know how this feels.

Try it in the beta

A full RhinoFrame advanced node canvas, with prompt, style, sketch, and viewport nodes wired into several finished renders

From the team behind

How to Rhino

The education brand thousands of Rhino designers already learn from. RhinoFrame is built by people who use Rhino every day, for people who do the same.

We are Dusan and Lazar, the architects behind How to Rhino. Our mission is to reach as many architects as possible and help them learn Rhino and Grasshopper3D specifically for architecture.

We run a free community on Skool where we talk with students every day, a paid community with monthly workshops, mini courses, and live reviews, and intensive courses with a proven, step-by-step learning system.

How to Rhino is an official Authorized Rhino Training Center, approved by McNeel. RhinoFrame is the next tool we're building for the same people we teach every day.

Dusan and Lazar, founders of How to Rhino

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Get a head start

Install the plugin now so you're ready to render the minute you're approved.

Rhino 8 only RhinoFrame requires Rhino 8, on Windows or Mac. Rhino 7 is not supported.

Update Rhino first Make sure Rhino 8 is on the latest version before installing. In Rhino, open Help, then Check for Updates.

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In Rhino 8, type PackageManager in the command line and press Enter.
2
In the Package Manager, search for RhinoFrame.
3
Select RhinoFrame and click Install.
4
At the bottom of the Package Manager, tick Include pre-releases and Automatically update packages when Rhino starts, then restart Rhino when prompted.
5
Back in Rhino, type RhinoFrame in the command line to open the panel.
6
Drag the panel to the side of the Rhino window to dock it.

Once you're approved, sign in inside the plugin with this email address to activate your starter credits.

Questions

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Which Rhino versions are supported?

RhinoFrame runs on the latest Rhino 8. Rhino 7 and Grasshopper components are planned for later phases.

Is this for Windows or Mac?

Both. RhinoFrame runs on Rhino 8 for Windows and Mac, installed the same way on each through Rhino's built-in Package Manager. See the install walkthrough.

How much control do I have over the result?

You compose the render as a node graph, so you control the prompt, style, reference images, and how the scene is interpreted. Iterate quickly by changing nodes and re-rendering until it looks right.

How much does it cost?

While RhinoFrame is in beta it's completely free to use. When we introduce pricing later, we'll share the details well before anything changes.

How do I get access?

RhinoFrame is in free, open beta. Sign up using the form above, confirm your email, and you're in.