Current Status: April 26th, 2021:
The.macrhi extension is a file extension associated with the Rhino for Mac application (both Rhinoceros.app and RhinoWIP.app). This extension denotes a “Rhino for Mac plugin installer.” Rhino for Mac knows that such files are actually.zip archives that need to be decompressed and copied into the user’s Library folder at the appropriate. Jul 15, 2021 Download Rhino 7 for Mac Evaluation. (After 90 days, it will still work great to learn Rhino and to view Rhino and many other file formats.) Buy a license here.
- Rhino 7 for Macis supported on macOS Big Sur 11.3 on Apple Silicon Macs with M1 processors*. Please update to macOS Big Sur 11.3.
*running in Rosetta2. This is not yet a fully native version (see below for the distinction).
Rosetta Translation:
Apple’s Rosetta Translation Environment attempts to automatically translate Intel applications to run on Apple Silicon. If this works, it is the easier path toward support for Apple Silicon for Rhino. We know it’s a stop-gap solution, and that a Universal Binary is our ultimate goal.
Universal Binary:
Rhino has many third-party dependencies such as libraries for file import and export. Our vendors need to support Apple Silicon before we can fully support the features we rely on from them. We have not yet begun contacting our partners about supporting Apple Silicon.
All work related to Universal Binary is being done as part of Rhino 8 development.
How you can help:
If you have an Apple Silicon M1 Mac, please:
- Look through our list of Known Bugs: Rhino for Mac on Apple Silicon list on our bug-tracker.
- Please report bugs in Rhino for Mac forum category.
Thanks for your encouragement and support,
-Dan
PS: I’ve closed this topic intentionally. Please start new related topics and link back to this one if you think it would help.
by Dan Belcher (Last modified: 27 Jul 2021)
This guide explains how to create a plugin installer for Rhino for Mac.
It is presumed you have a plugin that successfully builds and runs already. If you are not there yet, see Your First Plugin (Mac).
Overview
Rhino for Mac does not (yet) have a Plugin Manager. However, installing plugins is very easy. You simply rename your plugin’s containing folder with an special extension (.rhp), compress the folder, and change the extension from .rhp.zip to .macrhi. Once this is done, you can double-click the archive and Rhino will launch and install the plugin. You can also drag the .macrhi onto the dock icon of a running instance of Rhino and it will install the plugin as well. You will, in any case, need to Quit an Restart Rhino for the plugin to activate.
Step-by-Step
- Locate your plugin folder in Finder. Let’s imagine our plugin is called HelloRhinoCommon and we have built it for Release…
- Single-click the name your plugin’s Release (or Debug) folder to Rename it. The new name should be your plugin assembly with a .rhp suffix. For example, if your plugin is called HelloRhinoCommon, rename the folder that contains this file HelloRhinoCommon.rhp…
- You will be prompted to confirm this change. Click the “Add” button:
- The icon of the folder1 should now look like this…
- Archive the plugin folder. Right-click (option-click) the plugin .rhpfolder you created in the previous step and select “Compress (your plugin name).” This creates a zip archive of the contents of the folder.
- Single-click the name of the new archive you created in step 5. This allows you to rename the archive.
- Change the extension from .rhp.zip to .macrhi.
- You will be prompted to confirm this change. Select the “Use .macrhi” button:
- Notice that the icon changes from a zip archive to a Rhino RHI:
- If Rhino for Mac is open, drag the.macrhi archive onto Rhino for Mac’s icon in the dock; OR:
- If Rhino for Mac is not currently open, double-click the .macrhi archive to launch and install the plugin…
- Click OK then Quit and Restart Rhino. Your plugin should load.
Behind the Scenes
The .macrhi extension is a file extension associated with the Rhino for Mac application (both Rhinoceros.app and RhinoWIP.app). This extension denotes a “Rhino for Mac plugin installer.” Rhino for Mac knows that such files are actually .zip archives that need to be decompressed and copied into the user’s Library folder at the appropriate location, specifically the ~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/MacPlugIns/ folder2.
When Rhino for Mac launches, it searches the contents of the
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~/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/MacPlugIns/
folder scanning the sub-folders looking for .rhp files. When it finds such “file” (which are actually packages), Rhino for Mac attempts to load the assembly with the same name contained within this package. If it cannot load the plugin, it will show an error at launch time.
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For uninstallation/removal instructions, please see Uninstalling Plugins (Mac).
User Library
By default, the User Library folder is hidden from view.
To make your Library visible in the Finder:
- In Finder, navigate to your Home (~) folder. You must be in your Home folder for this to work.
- Press Command+J to bring up the Finder View options dialog…
- Check the Show Library Folder check box. Now your Library should show up in the view. You may want to drag this folder to your Favorites area of the Finder sidebar for easy access later.
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Footnotes
macOS (and Unix) has a special kind of folder that masquerades as a file. These are called “packages.” (Most apps found in /Applications/ are actually packages called “bundles”). You can access the contents in Finder by right-clicking on the package and selecting Show Package Contents. ↩
Do not confuse this path with /Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/, which is the system-wide Library location. ↩