Conversational AI inside your CAD loop
Move faster in Rhino with conversational AI, whether you live in the viewport or only open Grasshopper occasionally.
Raven is built for Rhino and Grasshopper: it reads your scripts, plugins, and custom tools so you can describe intent in plain language, iterate on geometry, and debug in context. This session keeps the camera on Rhino-first workflows: commands, curves, solids, and real files, not on wiring dense Grasshopper graphs.
Join the McNeel team and Raven to see why a CAD-native copilot behaves differently from a generic chat tool, and how to apply it in practice.
In this live session, you will get:
- Ways to turn plain-language goals into Rhino-native geometry and edits without building a Grasshopper graph first
- A workflow for debugging and refining modeling and script logic with an assistant that reads your actual file context
- How to tap your plugin ecosystem when you need it, without memorizing every component name
- Examples of Raven across AEC, engineering, and making when CAD is the hub, not only Grasshopper
Speaker
Moritz Rietschel is co-founder of Raven, building human-centered AI tools for design and creativity. His background includes research at UC Berkeley on human-AI collaboration in CAD with Prof. Kyle Steinfeld and robotic fabrication with Prof. Simon Schleicher. He has lectured internationally on AI-based creative tools, hosted workshops at MIT and Tongji, and published peer-reviewed work on LLMs for CAD. Reach out if you want to chat with the Raven team.
Who this is for
Rhino users who want AI in the CAD loop: from heavy viewport modelers to occasional Grasshopper users. This is not a plugin-heavy Grasshopper deep dive; for Karamba, Kangaroo, and broader plugin workflows, see our Grasshopper plugins live session.