Rhino gives you the form. Volexi gives you the materials, lighting, and photography. Upload a viewport PNG, render in a minute.
Volexi produces a photoreal render from a Rhino viewport PNG in 30–60 seconds. Capture the viewport, upload to Volexi, set your material and lighting preset, and get a 4K output with Rhino linework preserved.
What the numbers say
Inside VolexiIn a sample of 1,204 Rhino uploads from parametric-design users during the Volexi beta, the average setup time dropped from 22 minutes with a traditional PBR workflow to 54 seconds end-to-end with Volexi — a 24× speed improvement on concept renders.
How it works
Three steps to turn a Rhino working viewport into a photoreal AI render.
Orient the perspective viewport. Use shaded or rendered display mode. Turn off grid, construction planes, and unused layers.
ViewCaptureToFile at 2048 × 1536 or larger. This writes a PNG with the exact framing you picked — no proxy render, no material setup.
Drop the PNG in the editor, pick a material and daylight preset, and click Render. A photoreal image is ready in about a minute.
Why Rhino teams choose Volexi
No. Volexi reads viewport PNG or JPG captures, so the 3DM stays in your workflow and no geometry is transmitted to the server.
This matters for parametric work in Grasshopper where the 3DM can balloon with nested definitions. Volexi only needs what you see on screen, not the full scene graph.
Yes. ViewCaptureToFile captures whatever is currently baked or previewed in the Rhino viewport, including Grasshopper geometry.
This lets parametric designers iterate on form in Grasshopper and visualise each variant in Volexi without baking geometry or writing a PBR material assignment each time.
Yes, via Architecture Lock. Volexi runs a Canny-edge pass on your viewport capture to keep critical edges intact.
Ideal for façade studies where window rhythm or panel division matters. The AI textures around the linework rather than reinterpreting it freely.
No — and that is the point. No installs, no version-lag for Rhino 8 updates, no Python dependency management on macOS.
Every Rhino user — Windows or Mac, Rhino 6 or 8 — uses the same Volexi workflow. The lowest-common-denominator surface (a PNG) keeps the tool future-proof.
Rhino exports rendered in Volexi
Eight dimensions that matter when you're choosing an AI or traditional renderer for architectural visualisation.
| Dimension | Volexi | Rhino's native renderer |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Import export, render in 30 seconds | Material, lighting, and camera setup per scene |
| Export formats accepted | PNG, JPG, Rhino viewport capture | Native scene file only |
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go credit packs from $9 | Bundled with base license |
Rhino's native renderer is a trademark of the owners of Rhino. Volexi is not affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of Rhino. Feature comparisons are based on publicly available documentation at time of writing.
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No plugin, no PBR setup. Upload a viewport PNG and see a 4K photoreal render in under a minute on any Rhino version.