S·O·S, Skin of the Sky: Connecting Voices, Lightning, Sound, and Light Through Rhino and Grasshopper

For Nuit Blanche 2026, artist Marie-Luce Nadal transformed a Parisian church into a living map of human wishes and atmospheric events. Rhino 8 and Grasshopper became the central coordination environment connecting the venue’s geometry with 80 loudspeakers, 43 lighting fixtures, spatial audio, and real-time lighting previsualization.

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Tips & Tricks: Add Components While Drawing Wires with the Spacebar

Discover a faster way to build Grasshopper definitions in Rhino Beta. While dragging a wire from any component or parameter grip, press the SPACEBAR to open a menu where you can browse or search for the next component without interrupting the connection.

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The Pro-Sumer: From Modular Logic to a Regenerative Urban Ecosystem

Developed through an iterative Rhino workflow, The Pro-Sumer explores how a timber office tower can evolve from a consumer of resources into a productive urban ecosystem.

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New plugin - ExcelWorks brings live Excel tables into Rhino 8

Discover ExcelWorks - New plugin to bring live Excel tables into Rhino 8

A direct, updatable connection between Microsoft Excel and native Rhino geometry.

For many Rhino users, getting a well-formatted Excel table onto a drawing has meant relying on screenshots, PDF conversions, CSV imports, or custom Grasshopper definitions. These workarounds can be slow, difficult to update, and often lose the formatting that made the spreadsheet useful in the first place.

After repeatedly running into the same problem in our own drafting workflow, CAD Projects Australia developed ExcelWorks for Rhino, a new Rhino 8 plugin designed to create a direct and practical connection between Microsoft Excel and Rhino.

With ExcelWorks, you select a range in an open Excel workbook and place it into Rhino. The plugin recreates the table as native Rhino geometry inside a block, retaining displayed cell values, fills, borders, merged cells, text alignment, font sizing, and row and column proportions. The result remains clean, scalable and suitable for layouts, technical drawings and documentation.

The real advantage comes when spreadsheet data changes. Rather than deleting the old table and starting again, ExcelWorks can update the existing linked block while keeping its location and scale in the Rhino document. Links can also be redefined, managed or removed through the ExcelWorks panel.

ExcelWorks is intended for designers, naval architects, engineers, fabricators and anyone who regularly transfers schedules, specifications, parts lists, calculations or other tabular information into Rhino.

Available for Rhino 8 on Windows with a 14-day free trial. Developed by CAD Projects Australia.

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