We’re happy to announce that new versions of our Rhino and Revit plugins are on the horizon, with official support for Rhino 8 and Revit 2025.
Please note: As part of this update, we are considering discontinuing support for Rhino 6 and Revit 2019-2021.
We want to hear from you: Before making this change, we’d like to understand if it might impact any of your current projects. If you’re using Rhino 6 or Revit 2019-2021 and this change could be a blocker, please let us know. We’re happy to discuss potential solutions or alternatives.
Thanks Mostapha, you all are very kind developers to solicit this kind of feedback!
I have been using Rhino6 but I totally understand the need to move on.
How is Rhino8 going for folks using pollination and ladybug tools? I almost upgraded when they had that really good early upgrade pricing but then I got cold feet thinking about bugs that might pop up…
Hi @glinn07, thank you for the kind comments. I have been using Rhino 7 myself but @chriswmackey should be able to tell you about his Rhino 8 experience. From what I have seen, at this point, everything works as expected.
Yea, there haven’t been any bug reports related to the LBT Grasshopper components and Rhino 8 in several months. As far as I remember, none have been any reported since the LBT 1.8 release in March.
From a Revit perspective… We always use the version of Revit that the architect is working in. While there are no set rules, the version chosen seems to be the most current the firm has when starting a project. Very rarely do architects upgrade a project to a newer version, in my experience. We also avoid upgrading projects on our end. Our Revit licensing is such that it covers any version, so we usually have several versions installed.
The larger the project, the more likely it is to be on an older version of Revit. I would probably recommend supporting Revit plugins for 5 years to ensure support of the majority of projects. Upgrading a very large project is very likely to cause issues.
For us, we are slowly starting to convert our geometry workflow so that we can use Pollination for ALL model geometries. It would be pretty annoying to have to remember/teach/train a second workflow for 10% of our projects just because the Revit plugin stopped being available. I hope this helps.
In case it helps we have already received a few messages asking for Revit 2020-2021 to stay around since the architect in the project uses those versions of Revit. Do you have any projects that is using Revit 2019?
We definitely don’t want this to happen! Autodesk officially supports the last 4 versions, and I was hoping that we can do the same but it looks like we have to be more flexible in this case.
