Collabrador brings realtime collaboration to Rhino and Grasshopper. Work inside one shared design session, explore ideas together, and make the early concept phase visible, live, and collective.
Collabrador brings real-time collaboration to Rhino and Grasshopper. Architecture is rarely designed alone, but the early digital design process often is. One person drives the model, while the rest of the team reacts through meetings, screenshots, messages, or file exchanges. Collabrador changes this by creating a shared live workspace where multiple people can explore, edit, and develop ideas together.
The plugin is focused on concept design: the phase where creativity, speed, and team understanding matter most. It helps teams test options directly, learn from each other, and build decisions through participation instead of observation.
Beginners can join the process and immediately understand what is happening. Experts can use it for collaborative Rhino workflows, Grasshopper-based exploration, workshops, education, and design reviews.
Collabrador is not just about working faster. It is about making the act of designing more collective, more visible, and more alive.
Work in one shared Rhino model, live.
Collabrador turns Rhino into a shared design room. Multiple people can edit, explore, and react inside the same live session instead of watching one operator, exchanging files, or waiting for exported versions. This is the core feature: real-time co-design directly inside the modeling environment.
Bring parametric logic into the shared session.
A prepared Grasshopper setup can support the whole room with live parameters, calculations, variations, or feedback. This makes computational design part of the collaborative process instead of something one expert controls separately. Teams can explore intuition and logic in the same design conversation.
Share selected experiments publicly.
The Playground is a public space for selected sessions, demos, workshops, and collaborative experiments. It is not where private office work happens by default; it is where design moments can be intentionally shown, discovered, and discussed. This makes collaborative design visible beyond one closed room.
Keep the conversation going after the session.
The Pinboard gives shared sessions a place to live after the real-time work ends. It can collect design moments, feedback, invitations, references, and follow-up discussions. This is useful when a workshop, review, teaching format, or public experiment should not disappear when the live room closes.
Let others follow from any browser.
The Webviewer lets people join the design process without Rhino installed. They can follow the live session from a computer or phone, which makes it useful for presentations, reviews, juries, teaching, and team communication. Not everyone needs to model in order to understand and participate.
Move from testing to private team work.
Collabrador can start as an open experiment, but real collaboration often needs private rooms, controlled access, and team-based workflows. Access modes make it possible to use Collabrador in offices, courses, reviews, and temporary group formats without mixing every session into the public Playground.
The concept phase is where ideas are still flexible. Collabrador keeps that moment collaborative: every accepted edit moves through the same shared room.
You drag a slider or move a wall. The real Rhino change is published the moment it happens.
The room verifies every edit and folds it into one accepted state. No merge conflicts — by construction.
The accepted state streams to every co-creator's Rhino and every browser, worldwide, at the speed of conversation.
Try, react, build on each other — the loop that took an email round now takes a sentence.
Clients and professors follow in the Webviewer while you design — feedback lands when it's cheap.
Fewer exports, fewer parallel files, and fewer disconnected decisions.
Geometry and Grasshopper logic share the same session — intuition and computation in one conversation.
Co-creation is not only faster. It builds shared understanding, shared ownership, and better design decisions.
Collabrador supports the early concept phase, where options are still flexible and quick iterations can change the outcome. Instead of screen sharing, file exchange, or waiting for the next exported version, teams can explore ideas inside one shared 3D design session. Brainstorming becomes spatial, immediate, and collective.
Designing together requires timing, negotiation, spatial thinking, and a shared sense of direction. Collabrador makes these skills visible in the live model itself. Teams can test ideas, react to each other, and learn how decisions emerge through shared action, whether in practice, research, education, or workshops.
Reviews often happen after the important work has already been done. Collabrador turns feedback into a live design situation: alternatives can be tested, reactions can become edits, and participants can understand decisions as they unfold. This makes reviews, critiques, presentations, and workshops more immediate and productive.
Collabrador is a Rhino and Grasshopper plugin for real-time collaborative concept design. Multiple people can join one shared session, explore geometry, test ideas, and develop design decisions together.
Only the people authoring geometry. Everyone else joins from a browser or phone via the Webviewer — no installation, just the room link.
One user authors a Grasshopper definition; it runs as a shared overlay and its results update live for everyone in the room. In Rhino, everyone co-creates — the overlay adds shared computation on top, like live floor areas or facade rationalization.
Selection locks: grab an object and it's yours until you let go. No tug-of-war, no overwritten work — the room keeps one consistent model.
Yes. Rooms run on a globally distributed edge network and every collaborator connects to the nearest node. Latency stays well inside the range needed for live design work.
Private rooms are separate from public sharing. You can use room passwords, and sessions are not published to the Playground unless you intentionally share them there.
There's a free tier for experimentation, a Team workspace for ongoing collaboration, and Workshop passes for courses and events. Details on the Plans page.
Collabrador is a place for collective intelligence: bring AI-assisted options, parametric studies, or rough design ideas into one live room. Review them together, take them apart, and build on the directions worth keeping. Tools generate. Teams decide.