https://www.shapediver.com/blog Customer stories, product updates, Grasshopper tutorials and news from the ShapeDiver team in Vienna, and from the designers and engineers who build on ShapeDiver. en-us https://www.shapediver.com/blog/diversplugin https://www.shapediver.com/blog/diversplugin Why a decade of Grasshopper scripts became the public Divers Plugin: to skip compilation delays on the web, share logic, and track changes in version control. Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Insights Edwin Hernández https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-index-enclosures https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-index-enclosures indEx Enclosures lets customers configure a custom ATEX enclosure in the browser and get an instant price, built with Grasshopper, Rhino, and ShapeDiver. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/code-to-concrete-scripting-kilometers-of-highway-walls https://www.shapediver.com/blog/code-to-concrete-scripting-kilometers-of-highway-walls Our team automated the design of precast concrete noise barriers for a manufacturer, from C# components in Grasshopper to a cloud app for the shop floor. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver Edwin Hernández https://www.shapediver.com/blog/open-source-viewer https://www.shapediver.com/blog/open-source-viewer The ShapeDiver Viewer, our WebGL engine, is now open source on GitHub. Why we opened it and how it completes the open stack with the App Builder SDK. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tutorials Michael Oppitz https://www.shapediver.com/blog/automate-your-app-builder-tests https://www.shapediver.com/blog/automate-your-app-builder-tests Our open-source App Builder Testing Framework, built on Playwright, automates browser tests, user interactions, and visual checks for Grasshopper apps. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tutorials Michael Oppitz https://www.shapediver.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-grasshopper-plugins-on-shape-diver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-grasshopper-plugins-on-shape-diver ShapeDiver supports more than 70 plugins, including professional ones, and lets Enterprise users deploy their own. Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product updates ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/the-long-and-winding-road-to-soc-2-type-2-as-a-small-team https://www.shapediver.com/blog/the-long-and-winding-road-to-soc-2-type-2-as-a-small-team How ShapeDiver, a small team, reached SOC 2 Type II: a false start, then choosing the platform and the auditor and getting the team on board. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Company news Mathias Höbinger https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-impact-acoustic https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-impact-acoustic Learn how Impact Acoustic took their Canvas tool online to promote their products and help their customers understand them better. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/agent-skills https://www.shapediver.com/blog/agent-skills ShapeDiver Agent Skills give AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code the ShapeDiver knowledge they need, loaded only when needed. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product updates Michael Oppitz https://www.shapediver.com/blog/stop-sharing-your-grasshopper-files https://www.shapediver.com/blog/stop-sharing-your-grasshopper-files Four problems with sending .gh files to clients and colleagues, from IP exposure to support requests, and how a ShapeDiver app solves each. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tutorials ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-cd-peacock-when-heritage-fuels-innovation https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-cd-peacock-when-heritage-fuels-innovation Kelly Jacobson of CD Peacock, Chicago's jeweler since 1837, on its bridal ring configurators built with Rhino, Grasshopper, ShapeDiver, and iJewel. Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-frame-maker-custom-fit-eyewear-for-on-demand-3d-printing https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-frame-maker-custom-fit-eyewear-for-on-demand-3d-printing Industrial designer Andrés Roppa on Frame Maker, which turns 2D outlines into 3D-printable custom-fit frames with Grasshopper, ShapeDiver, and App Builder. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-retreat-2025 https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-retreat-2025 ShapeDiver's team grew this year, so we took a trip to the countryside to reflect, plan, and get to know each other better. Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Company news Mathias Höbinger https://www.shapediver.com/blog/high-complexity-3d-configurators-automate-manufacturing-output-with-shapediver-grasshopper https://www.shapediver.com/blog/high-complexity-3d-configurators-automate-manufacturing-output-with-shapediver-grasshopper Learn the difference between simple and high-complexity 3D configurators and why ShapeDiver shines with the latter. Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Insights ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-core-studio-scaling-computational-design-at-thornton-tomasetti https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-core-studio-scaling-computational-design-at-thornton-tomasetti Eesha Jain of CORE studio on how Thornton Tomasetti turns Grasshopper scripts into scalable engineering tools with ShapeDiver. Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/app-builder-101-shapediver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/app-builder-101-shapediver ShapeDiver's CTO Alex Schiftner on why we built App Builder, what it supports, how it works under the hood, and what comes next. Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Product updates Alex Schiftner https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-now-supports-sheepmetal-plugin-grasshopper https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-now-supports-sheepmetal-plugin-grasshopper SheepMetal, a Grasshopper plug-in for sheet metal parts that detects features and unrolls with bend control, now runs on ShapeDiver. Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Product updates ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/what-we-got-wrong-about-shapediver-s-free-planand-how-we-fixed-it https://www.shapediver.com/blog/what-we-got-wrong-about-shapediver-s-free-planand-how-we-fixed-it Why we changed ShapeDiver's free plan so that far more Grasshopper models work out of the box: longer computation, scripted components, and credits. Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Company news Mathias Höbinger https://www.shapediver.com/blog/skip-the-coding-build-your-3d-configurator-with-grasshopper-shapediver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/skip-the-coding-build-your-3d-configurator-with-grasshopper-shapediver In this article, we’ll examine two possible ways to build an online 3D configurator and how that affects its total cost of ownership. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Insights ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-orthosolid-3d-printed-orthoses-and-prostheses https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-orthosolid-3d-printed-orthoses-and-prostheses OrthoSolid replaces plaster casts and hand layups with a scan-or-measurement workflow: clinicians design custom orthoses and prostheses online in minutes. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-pentaura-parametric-timber-structures https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-pentaura-parametric-timber-structures CODA on PENTAURA, an online configurator for timber shell structures built with Grasshopper, Karamba3D, and ShapeDiver's App Builder, made locally in Europe. Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/designers-corner-yves-ebnoether https://www.shapediver.com/blog/designers-corner-yves-ebnoether Swiss industrial designer Yves Ebnöther on parametric furniture, material optimization, his Stool around the MAK project, and teaching at ZHAW. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Insights ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/revisiting-saw-sew-ai-meets-made-to-order-furniture https://www.shapediver.com/blog/revisiting-saw-sew-ai-meets-made-to-order-furniture Learn how this bespoke furniture brand is using AI to help its customers create unique fabric designs for their products. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-spring-25-update-live-webinar https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-spring-25-update-live-webinar Join us on March 25th to learn about the latest features added to the ShapeDiver platform, including our new Speckle and Shopify integrations. Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Product updates ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/inside-shapediver-efficiently-rendering-the-text-tag-3d-component-via-instanced-meshes https://www.shapediver.com/blog/inside-shapediver-efficiently-rendering-the-text-tag-3d-component-via-instanced-meshes How the ShapeDiver Viewer now renders large numbers of 3D text tags quickly with instanced meshes: the problem, our approach, and how to use it. Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tutorials Michael Oppitz https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-wazp-transforming-supply-chains-with-3d-printing https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-wazp-transforming-supply-chains-with-3d-printing WAZP, from the west coast of Ireland, on distributed 3D printing of custom products, its industries, and its work with Vivobarefoot. Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-reukraine-villages-rebuilding-ukraine-with-grasshopper https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-reukraine-villages-rebuilding-ukraine-with-grasshopper balbek bureau from Kyiv on RE:Ukraine Villages, an online tool built with Grasshopper and ShapeDiver for rebuilding traditional rural Ukrainian houses. Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-vivobarefoot-the-scan-to-production-footwear-revolution https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-vivobarefoot-the-scan-to-production-footwear-revolution Pete Davis of Vivobarefoot on VivoBiome, custom-fit shoes made from 3D foot scans with Grasshopper, ShapeDiver, Volumental, and Balena. Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-fall-24-update-live-webinar https://www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-fall-24-update-live-webinar A live webinar on ShapeDiver's 2024 updates, App Builder among them, for building web applications from Grasshopper files without web development. Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Product updates ShapeDiver https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-beaver-structures-redefining-parametric-timber-engineering https://www.shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-beaver-structures-redefining-parametric-timber-engineering Beaver, an open-source Grasshopper plug-in for timber structures to Eurocode 5. Its founders on taking it from academic research to engineering firms. Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Customer stories ShapeDiver