Supported third-party Grasshopper plugins
If you are interested in adding your own plugin to the list of supported ones, please check the guidelines for plugin developers and then feel free to contact us to start a conversation.
ShapeDiver supports almost all built-in Grasshopper components and selected third-party plugins. Some plugins are only partially supported. As an example, we do not allow components that expose forbidden functionality.
List of supported plugins
For an always up-to-date list of plugins supported on ShapeDiver, check the Backend settings of your account!
Plugin versions
We try to keep most plugins up-to-date with their latest version when possible. Nevertheless, the current version of a plugin supported by our servers is not necessarily always the latest one. That might be for one of two reasons:
We are just late! Let us know on the forum if you need the latest version of a specific plugin and we will do our best to review it and (if anything checks) update it on the servers.
The plugin introduced breaking changes in a new version, which would potentially break existing models on the servers.
Check if the version matches before downloading and installing a plugin on your computer. The package manager in Rhino typically allows to install previous versions of plugins.
For plugins introducing breaking changes, installing a new version might have to wait until the next major Rhino release, or can be done if you are on an Enterprise system. In the meanwhile, you can find below the list of plugins with breaking changes which are stuck in an old version on the shared systems:
Heteroptera
Download (version 7.3.5)
Clusters
Some plugins like Peacock and Lunchbox consist of a set of clusters. In that case, all versions of the plugin are supported, but each cluster that our system doesn't know yet will need to be validated, in the same way that script components are handled. Find more information about model checking here.
Plugin licenses
Most Grasshopper plugins are free and can be installed on the ShapeDiver server without licensing issues.
For plugins with a paid license, we need to find an agreement with the plugin developers for usage on our servers. If you need a specific plugin that requires a paid license, let us know on the forum! Don’t refrain from tagging the plugin developers if they are forum users, so we can show your interest and start a conversation with them on solid grounds.
Karamba
ShapeDiver supports the free license of the Karamba version 2 plugin on the shared Rhino 7 system.
A commercial license of Karamba version 3 is available on the shared Rhino 8 system and on the hybrid system. The currently installed version is 3.1.50129 and future updates will also be available on this system. Please contact us if you want to upgrade your subscription and access Karamba 3.