Rhino Grasshopper Plugins

Discover 90+ Grasshopper plugins we've used in our projects.

Click on any plugin to explore related example files and see how they enhance parametric design.

 

Examples

Rooster

Rooster is a plugin useful for extracting curves from images; a process commonly known as Vectorization of an image

Spider

Spider is a Grasshopper plugin written in C#.  It focuses on the structural form-finding method that can simulate different models of hanging chains.

NJS

This is an outcome from a research in Computaional Design. Althought it is not that completed, you could enjoy it.

PedSim

In PedSim®, People move from Start Gate to Destination Gate, following the shortest route, avoiding obstacles and other People. If they see a Target of their Interest, they will go to that Target, stay a while and re-route to the Destination Gate.

4D Noise

This component creates Perlin and Simplex noise. In the Grasshopper scripting on RhinoCommon here at McNeel Europe we teach to program a component that does this, in C# and Vb.Net. Grasshopper contains a 1D Perlin noise function (similar to sines summations), but this functionality cannot be directly extended to more dimensions.

Voxel Tools

The voxeltools offer lightweight voxel geometry for Rhino. It allows you to quickly generate and manipulate voxelated geometry from meshes, breps, curves and points, and offers boolean operation between voxelgrids. It can convert voxelgrids to solid mesh hulls.

Monoceros

A DISCRETE ASSEMBLY TOOLKIT FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS Monoceros is a legendary animal living in the huge mountains in the interior of India. Monoceros has the body of a horse, the head of a stag, the feet of an elephant and the tail of a boar.

Bowerbird

Bowerbird is a plugin for Grasshopper which provides tools for modeling. It provides components to create waffle and layer models, a single-line font for labeling with laser cutter and milling.

Nautilus

This plugin is a set of 250 components. A part of these components were developed in order to help people on the Grasshopper forums (http://grasshopper3d.com and https://discourse.mcneel.com) and the others are Laurent Delrieu personal projects.

NUCLEI

The plugin consists of a multithreaded simulation core and a set of tools for defining particle behaviors as well as their environment. Nuclei features unique voxel implementations for a powerful approach where particles adapt their behavior based on the highly customizable environment.

Cocoon

Cocoon is an add-on to McNeel’s Grasshopper visual scripting interface for Rhinoceros. Cocoon is a fairly straightforward implementation of the Marching Cubes algorithm for turning iso-surfaces into polygonal meshes.

Stella3d

“A particle system is a collection of many many minute particles that together represent a fuzzy object. Over a period of time, particles are generated into a system, move and change from within the system, and die from the system.” William Reeves

Weaverbird

Weaverbird is a topological modeler that contains many of the known subdivision and transformation operators, readily usable by designers. Instead of doing the work repeatedly, or sometimes using complicated scripts, this plug-in reconstructs the shape, subdivides any mesh, even made by polylines, and helps preparing for fabrication.

OpenNest

OpenNest – 2D Polyline Packing for fabrication such as laser or CNC cutting.

Oricut Plugin

With the Oricut Plugin, you can design Parametric Patterns for Origami & Kirigami. You can also get started by downloading the example files from our website.

Fracture

FractureHopper is an extension of GH for fractal math and chaos theory. It extens grasshopper with a number of utilities: Julia 2D and 3D sets and tests, Lorenz attractors, Rabinovich-Fabrikant maps, Bifurcation diagrams.

Wombat

Wombat for GH is an open source series of miscellaneous utilities aimed at improving modeling processes by streamlining common tasks. It includes components for operating on geometry, lists, files and folders, and visualizing the geometric properties of surfaces and meshes. Originally developed by Andrew Heumann and Brian Ringley while members of the Woods Bagot Design Technology team, maintained by WB DT. Open source at https://github.com/woodsbagot/WombatGH

TPS

Tools for the design of freeform Timber Plate Structures (TPS)

Ivy

Additionally if you are interested in the research behind Ivy you can read these two papers. Please consider citing them if ivy helps you in your research and up-vote the plug-in if it is helpful for your work.

Linketix

Linketix is a Live Physics Engine for simulating Mechanisms & Kinetic design.

Clipper

Clipper is a 2D polygon Clipper offering polygon boolean operations (clipping): Intersection, Join, Difference, XOR. Offsets for polygons and Minkowski Sum and Differences.

Tetra

Tetra is an add-on for Rhino3d and Grasshopper that brings tetrahedralization and remeshing capabilities to the platform. Under the hood Tetra leverages the extremely robust fTetWild c++ tetrahedralization library. Please follow the link for information about fTetWild and a citation.

Ngon

Mesh NGon for Grasshopper: NGon Create, Vertex, Edge, Face Adjacency queries, Subdivide, Planarize, Transform, Utilities. Please check the example files to understand the workflow. For bugs write an email: petrasvestartas@gmail.com or post on McNeel forum.

Quelea

Agent-Based Modeling for Designers + A new paradigm for 3D modeling utilizing agents. + Assign forces and behaviors to systems of agents to create interactions. + Utilize any data to drive the system. + Easily debug your system by displaying individual force vectors. + High performance, parallel algorithms, spatial data-structures. + Write your own custom forces, no coding required. + Open source framework for others to build custom behaviors. + Boid forces: Cohese, Separate, Align, & View. + Contain Agents within Brep, Box, Surface, and Polysurface environments. + Forces: Path Follow, Attract, Contain, Surface Flow, Seek, Arrive, Avoid Obstacle, Avoid Unaligned Collision, Sense Image, Sense Point, & more to come. + Behaviors: Bounce Contain, Kill Contain, Initial Velocity, Eat, Set Velocity, & more to come.

Human

Extends Grasshopper’s ability to create and reference geometry including lights, blocks, and text objects. Also enables access to information about the active Rhino document, pertaining to materials, layers, linetypes, and other settings.

Kangaroo

Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, form-finding, optimization and constraint solving.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish is an Implicit modeling plugin for Rhino Grasshopper. It utilized Ryan Schmidt(author of Autodesk Meshmixer)’s brilliant open-source geometry3Sharp library.

ShapeMap

ShapeMap is a plugin for Grasshopper, developed by the McNeel Asia China team. It integrates multiple basic functions in Rhino and has undergone secondary development. This plugin allows users to map any curve texture designed on a plane onto the surfaces of complex 3D models, while minimizing or eliminating deformation of the texture curves on the 3D surfaces. With ShapeMap, designing textures on 3D model surfaces becomes much easier, and the operation process is intuitive and simple.

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee is a Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino 6, Rhino 7, Rhino 8 WIP and Rhino Mac written in C# which focuses on fractal math and chaos theory. Chimpanzee contains currently 90 components including strange attractors, map & oscillators, 4D hyperchaotic systems, iterated function systems (IFS) a fractals like Mandelbrot set or Julia set using escape time algorithm.

Rabbit

Rabbit is an open-source plug-in for McNeel’s Grasshopper that simulates biological and physical processes.

Minimal Surface Creator

Generate Minimal Surfaces from boundary curves or do a minimal relaxation on a mesh.

Fattener

Here is a first prototype of 2 new tools (as a .gha plugin), one for thickening skeletons into closed quad meshes, and one for morphing geometry with a mesh cage.

Pufferfish

This plugin is a set of 330 components which focuses on Tweens, Blends, Morphs, Averages, Transformations, & Interpolations – essentially Shape Changing.

Sunglasses

Draw the name (or nickname) of Grasshopper objects with Draw Icons mode on. It also enriches the capsules when you zoom in to understand the component and visualise its data at a quick glance and you can display the group nicknames filling its box when the zoom is too low.

Millipede

Millipede Plugin for Grasshopper ZIP file.

Heteroptera

Heteroptera is an Always WIP addon, developed thus far to address the gaps the Helioripple team had faced while handling several projects by grasshopper.

Mesh+

Mesh+ is a set of user objects which enable a wide range of mesh editing, creation, interaction, and topology modification within Grasshopper 3d.

Nursery

Nursery is a behavioural design framework for Grasshopper. It consists of a set of tools for creating Agents and Behaviours and executing these behaviours on a multithreaded simulation core.

Jackalope

Jackalope is included with Grasshopper in Rhino 6 and Rhino 7 for Windows and Mac It’s a plugin that implements the standard Rhino space morph operations: Bend, Flow, Maelstrom, Splop, Splorph, Stretch, Taper, and Twist.

Elefront

EleFront v4.3.0 is the Rhino 6 legacy release.  Component names and icons have been changed to make it easy to distinguish from the new version. Only install if you want to have the stable version and the beta installed side by side. If you are not testing the beta and only work in Rhino 6, install version 4.2.2 instead.  Version 4.3.0 works in Rhino 7 as well, but does not implement any of the new features that are present in Rhino 7 only.
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