New in Rhino 6

Add temporary infinite guide / construction line.

Converts regions of connected coplanar welded faces into Ngons.

Creates a curve that a hanging chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends.

Draw a cross or a cross and center lines at the center point of a curve.

Move or copy objects between layout and detail viewports.

Remove all per-view, per-object display mode overrides.

Copy a hole in a planar surface.

Copy a linked block with Reference style layers.

Checks to see whether numbers with decimal points are being correctly printed and read.

Converts Ngons on a mesh into triangle or quad faces.

Creates a single developable surface between two rails.

Spread objects out evenly between the end objects.

Opens the Document User Text panel that lets you manage the document text.

Downloads required bitmap files for textures.

Sets the amount of object drag as a percentage of mouse movement to control the speed of the drag movement.

Lengthen a curve by its natural extension to a boundary or point.

Tests a bugtrack issue id number to determine if code that was committed to fix the issue is in the actively running Rhino.

Manages Grasshopper plug-in (*.gha) loading behavior and locations.

Opens the folders where Grasshopper stores files of settings, user objects, clusters or components.

Downloads the Grasshopper SDK help document (.CHM) from the Internet.

Selects a Grasshopper plug-in file (*.gha) that will be ignored by Grasshopper.

Prompts to load Grasshopper plug-ins one by one and then launch Grasshopper.

Opens the Grasshopper plug-in window.

Shows the plug-ins used in the currently loaded Grasshopper file.

Reset the gumball widget alignment.

Set the size of the scale handles either relative to the model or to a fixed size.

Hide all but the currently selected objects.

Lock all but the currently selected objects.

Log you into Rhino using your Rhino account.

Log you out and returns any licenses borrowed from a Rhino account.

Create a mesh from intersecting lines.

Allows moving an isocurve extracted with the ExtractIsocurve command on the surface it was extracted from.

Pause a script for the duration of multiple selections, for example in Join, Polyline, and FilletEdge.

The Notifications command opens the Notification panel.

Copy curves or surface edges parallel to the original.

Sets the active construction plane according to the current view direction to accommodate single-window modeling.

Draw a parabolic curve through three picked points.

Draw a rectangular planar surface with a bitmap texture.

Create a series of planar curves by intersecting spaced planes with a point cloud.

Display the viewport with real-time rendering that supports calculating reflection and refraction.

Removes very small single naked edges that fold or loop back on themselves and have no matching edge to which they can be joined.

Remove temporary infinite guide / construction line.

Set everything to white - materials, skylighting, ground plane and renders the current viewport.

Assign a material to a layer from the command-line.

Render a selected area of the current viewport in the render window at the resolution specified in the Rendering panel.

Open the Render panel.

Open the missing image files report.

Searches for block definition geometry that is not referenced by any block definition and recovers the block definitions to the file.

Change the spacing between objects.

Select annotation objects of a specified style.

Select all Rhino SubD objects in the model that do not have a boundary and are not locked or hidden.

Select mesh faces from the parent mesh object that are connected to a selected face.

Select a range of control points on a curve or surface.

Select all control points.

Select all Detail view rectangles in a Layout viewport.

Select a using a crossing sketched polyline.

Select objects by their user attribute key.

Select objects by their user attribute key and value.

Select edges from the parent mesh determined by an angle between mesh face normals.

Select mesh faces from the parent mesh object that are within a specified range of area.

Select mesh faces from the parent mesh object that are greater than the specified aspect ratio limit.

Separate mesh faces from the parent mesh object based on the angle of the faces to the view.

Select mesh faces from the parent mesh object that have an edge length greater or less than a specified value.

Select all mesh faces radiating out from the selected face to naked or unwelded edges in the parent mesh object.

Select all Rhino SubD objects in the model that have a boundary and are not locked or hidden.

Select all objects created with the Picture command.

Select all planar curves.

Select all planar surfaces.

Select all Rhino SubD objects in the model that are not locked or hidden.

Select objects by their user attribute value.

Select objects enclosed by an extrusion object, surface, polysurface, or mesh.

Open the Direction Analysis control and turn on direction analysis for curves, surfaces, and polysurfaces.

Close the Direction Analysis control, and turn off direction analysis.

Open the End Analysis control, and display the endpoints of curves.

Close the End Analysis control, and turn off endpoints of curves.

The Snapshots command saves and restores Named Views, Named Positions, Layer States, as well as rendering settings, object settings including locked/hidden state, display mode, material, position, light settings, curve piping, displacement, edge softening, shutlining, and thickness.

Allow object snaps to work on objects that are hidden behind other objects.

Create a spherical surface of a given radius tangent to the three selected surfaces.

Reports information about the computer hardware and operating system.

Download and open sample and tutorial models.

Unlock objects previously hidden by the IsolateLock command.

Show objects previously hidden by the Isolate command.

Flatten (develop) a surface or polysurface while preserving the UV of the input surfaces.

Unweld selected vertexes.

Detects third-party plug-ins on the system and posts their information on a web page.

Zoom to include all end display markers on selected curves.