ShapeDiver Now Supports Rhino 7!

A few weeks ago, McNeel released the long-awaited version 7 of Rhino. You would be forgiven for missing the news, since McNeel decided to go for a silent release with virtually no marketing planned around it. As a consequence, we at ShapeDiver were taken by surprise, like everyone else! We had long planned to coordinate the launch of our own Rhino 7 cloud system with its official commercial release. And we do not like to disappoint…

Grasshopper plugins Heteroptera, Caterpillar, Fattener and jSwan join the ShapeDiver platform!

We remain committed to make ShapeDiver a very open and flexible platform, even for our Free users. For this reason, we’ve given a higher priority to the process of adding support for useful third-party plugins.

Why can’t ShapeDiver support all Grasshopper third-party plugins?

Our goal at ShapeDiver is to make this platform as open and compatible with 3rd party plugins as possible. Nonetheless, sometimes some plugins are just not made to be used in an online environment. In this article, we explain the overall requirements for any plugin to be supported on our system.

Desktop vs Cloud Computation Time Explained!

Getting to know… Spatial Systems by Estructuras Arqué!

Did you know...? This pioneering company is a proud holder of CE certificate in EXC4 – Execution Class 4 which is the top level European certification both in Structural Manufacturing and Structural Sizing awarded by Lloyd's Register.

ShapeDiver Now Supports Grasshopper Vectorization Plugin ‘Rooster’

Rooster is a plugin useful for extracting curves from images; a process commonly known as Vectorization of an image.

ShapeDiver Secures Investment From Thornton Tomasetti, Merges With Swarm

The ShapeDiver team is excited to announce that we have merged with Swarm, a Grasshopper-based app store for the design community developed by the CORE Studio team at Thornton Tomasetti.

Improving Construction With Additive Manufacturing

In this article we explore four of the major challenges that are delaying the adoption of Additive Manufacturing within the AEC industry: Technology, Costs, Regulations and Interest.