Thomas Tait, Author at Hopific

Saving Grasshopper Clusters as User Objects

Saving a Component Cluster as a User Object for Later Re-Use

Clusters allow you to compress frequently used script sequences into custom components. But a Cluster’s scope is limited to a single Grasshopper script. That means

January 20, 2026

Creating Contour Lines in Rhino Tutorial_1

How to Create Contour Lines in Rhino – Step by Step Guide

Contour Lines in Rhino allow us to slice surfaces and polysurfaces, creating planar outlines of the object at consistent intervals. In this guide I’ll walk

November 9, 2024

Rhino Autosave Location: Quick Access Guide

Only three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a Rhino crash. Luckily, Rhino comes with a reliable autosave feature, but if you’ve had

November 7, 2024

Rhino Tutorial How to Take a ViewPortCapture

How to Take a Screenshot in Rhino using ViewCapture

To take a screenshot of the active viewport in Rhino, you can use Rhino’s ‘ViewCapture’ commands. Rhino gives you two options: you can save the

November 6, 2024

How to measure Distance in Rhino - Tutorial

How to Measure Length and Distance in Rhino – Essential Methods

Modeling in Rhino is all about precision. Being able to quickly check the length of a curve or the distance between two points is essential.

November 2, 2024

How to Turn Off Isocurves in Rhino – Tutorial

Isocurves can be incredibly useful to visualize and understand the curvature of a surface, but in many cases they just clutters up the viewport with

November 1, 2024

How to Move Objects to a Different Layer in Rhino

As your 3D model grows more complex, you’ll want to keep objects organized in layers. Rhino offers three ways to move objects to different layers:

October 31, 2024

How to Save Views in Rhino – A Beginner’s Guide

Whether it’s for a screenshot or a final production visualization, the ability to save specific views within Rhino is an indispensable feature. In Rhino, we

October 30, 2024

Tutorial - Deconstruct Brep in Grasshopper

Deconstruct Brep in Grasshopper: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’ve used Rhino before, you’ve probably used the “Explode” command to break down a polysurface into its component surfaces. In Grasshopper, a similar function

October 27, 2024