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

Minimal Surface Creator

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

Jellyfish

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

Peacock

Peacock is a free-culture project for the development of the algorithmic jewelry modeling in the Grasshopper/Rhinoceros 3d environment. It allows to create parametric jewels, generative collections, automated productions, customized tools, optimize costs, and explore new aesthetics and advanced solutions for jewelry design.

Parking Solver

Parking Solver is a plugin developed in my free time to automatize the layout planning of open plot parking lots. It contains several settings and custom methods to provide a wide variety of solutions within a simple and intuitive workflow (I guess).

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.

Sasquatch

Sasquatch is a collection of general purpose grasshopper utilities for Rhino 6 developed by Scott Overall at SHoP Architects focused on filling in some gaps in grasshopper modeling functionality or improving the speed and efficiency of already existing operations.

Fox

Series of algorithms for Graphs, Aggregations, Iso-surfaces.

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.

Firefly

Firefly offers a set of software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper (a free plug-in for Rhino) and micro-controllers like the Arduino. It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds – enabling the possibility to explore virtual and physical prototypes with unprecedented fluidity.

Crystallon

Crystallon is an open source project for creating lattice structures using Rhino and Grasshopper3D. Each tool is left as a cluster which can be opened and modified at will, in the spirit of open source. We hope the community will continue to develop and contribute to Crystallon through the use of the Grasshopper group and Github.

TPS

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

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.

Crane

Crane is a Grasshopper plugin to design origami products.

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.

Biber

Biber is a plug-in for Rhino-Grasshopper which enables parametric joinery. It enables the joinery industry to take advantage of the parametric design workflow and makes design and production easier and more affordable. this plug-in is being developed in collaboration with Hochschule Mainz, Germany (Prof. Klaus Teltenkötter, Sascha Urban)

Minimal Surface Creator

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

OpenNest

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

CurvePlus

Curve plus is a collection of curve modifier components developed over several years and wrapped up in this little library. The components range from simply exposing Rhinocommon curve commands, like spirals and control point weighting, to new tools like blending corners and a range of radial spirals. These components integrate into existing Grasshopper Curve, Vector, and Mesh tabs.

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.

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.

Flexhopper

FlexHopper offers very fast, particle-based physics simulation within Grasshopper. It let’s you simulate unconstraint particles, fluids, rigid and soft bodies, textile and spring system, inflatables and a combination of all these materials in one scene at unparalleled speed. You can add collision geometry, define custom constraints and emit new particles during runtime.

ShortestWalk

The ShortestWalk add-on for Grasshopper exposes one component which, given a network of curves and a list of lines, calculates the shortest route from line start point to line end points in a network.

Pufferfish

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

Droid

Droid is a 3D printing related Grasshopper Plug-in Library add-on, with control over model Slicing, Custom paths and Gcode generation.

Mesh Edit

Meshedit is a set of components which extend Grasshopper’s ability to work with meshes.

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 Tools

Just an usual mesh pipe and mesh sweep. Find both in Mesh->Primitive panel.

Topologizer

Topologizer or Network CleanUp tools help in organizing and managing network connections efficiently. They can detect and remove unnecessary files or connections, ensuring smooth network performance.

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.

3d Graphic Static

3D Graphic Statics is a structural form-finding method for generating compression-only funicular structures.

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.

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.

Boid

The BOID library operates exclusively with Agent locations (Grasshopper points) and Agent motion vectors (Grasshopper vectors). Each component calculates specific motion vector based on certain Agent behavior. The vectors need to be aggregated into a compound vector and iteratively applied insode an Anemone loop.

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.

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.

TREESLOTH

As a 3D CAD software suite, Rhino+Grasshopper is, at its core, a means to create, transform and manage data. Grasshopper’s explicit visual scripting interface structures these operations through the use of DataTrees. Treesloth emerged as a series of tools applied in both professional and research practice to help better negotiate the the types of data relationships within (and between) Grasshopper definitions that enable more complex operations.

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.

Lvy Generator

You can download some of your own leaf texture materials from the Internet

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.

Leopard

Leopard is an open source mesh processing solution for grasshopper that allows users to interact with rhino geometry and create customised mesh shapes. By selecting Mesh vertices, edges and faces, users have more freedom to edit meshes intuitively and use different subdivision schemes to selectively choose multiple areas to fix.
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