Shrubs, Groundcovers, and Topiaries are now listed with an icon closer to their appearance in the drawing
Plant 3D Display
The possible presence of roots is now taken into account when adjusting the plant scale to achieve the desired height
Foliage color now has some transparency
Performance
Terrain is now evaluated only once when calling context menu commands on several Terrain Input Data objects (like disabling all divisions at once from the Divisions root node)
Error fixes
Plant photo was not being updated in some cases when changing its image
Walls along a polyline path curve were not properly adjusted to terrain
Objects elevated to terrain were not automatically updated when modifying the hardscape terrain (like ramps)
Creating a Groundcover from a circle could crash Rhino
Fatal error when trying to change the color of Zones with a different initial color
Fatal error when purging blocks inserted from the library
A bad triangle appeared at the origin when computing the terrain base box in AutoCAD
Recent files named with non-ASCII chars were not being shown in RhinoLands Ribbon’s File menu
Notes
Supported Rhino versions
Rhino 8 SR23 or later, and
Rhino 7 SR33 or later
Supported AutoCAD versions
AutoCAD 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021
Lands Design 6.3 (May 2025)
RhinoLands Interface
Fixed default panels not opening or not docking as intended in Rhino 8
On first run
When user clicks on “Reset Window Layout”
Windows
Slight appearance improvements on Windows 11 Fixed error that prevented Lands from loading on N versions of Windows 11/10
TwinMotion
Very detailed plants can now be generated when user click on Synchronize button in recent TwinMotion versions
Plant library
17 new realistic plant files to replace old versions with significant improvements
Error fixes
Terrain path not properly modeled when document units were very small (mm)
Animations not working when camera path was a polycurve
Minor error fixes in Ramp object
Notes
Supported Rhino versions
Rhino 8 SR18 or later, and
Rhino 7 SR33 or later
Supported AutoCAD versions
AutoCAD 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Lands Design 6.2 (December 2024)
Terrain Object
Path
Enhanced slope control with multiple methods:
Curve elevation
Terrain elevation
Curve start-end elevation
Start-end terrain elevation
Constant grade
Per-segment grade
New option to specify a maximum grade
Added justification option for improved alignment
Earthmoving
You can now switch between cut only, fill only, or cut & fill modes for any operation at any moment
Cut and fill angles can now be defined separately
Angles can be specified in degrees, as a percentage, or using a rise-over-run ratio
Added an option to limit the extent of cut and fill operations
Elevation Data
Added sampling options for finer control over curve-to-point conversion for triangulation:
Specify maximum sample interval
Specify maximum deviation
Added the ability to extract the resulting triangulation mesh
Improved Input Data Editing
Input Data objects are now accessible through the Edit Panel selection tree as child elements of the Terrain object, each with its own property tabs
The Input Data tab has been removed from the Terrain object
You can now assign names to all types of input data (elevation data, earthmovings, boundaries, divisions, etc.)
Added an option to temporarily disable any input data for later use
Added the ability to extract the curve from any single input data
Base box
New option to show/hide the bottom cap
Earth Importer
Roads are now joined and trimmed automatically
Animation
Animations are now saved as MP4 files encoded with H264 standard
IFC Support
Added support for IFC 4
Other Improvements
It is now possible to add elevation data to a Terrain imported from Earth or DEM files
Ramp and Path objects are now taken into account when elevating to terrain
You can now edit the names of objects tagged as terrain or plant
Lands now remembers the Plant Label properties when inserting multiple labels
Break lines can now be inserted in the Plant Database fields
The units in the Terrain List are now updated when the model units change
Error Fixes
Slope object was showing the rise-over-length percentage rather than the rise-over-run
Shrub, Groundcover and Topiary 2D display could fail to fill the hatch
Default species initials were including the ” x ” part of hybrid species scientific name
Level Mark object displayed two negative signs for negative level values
Superhatch object wasn’t working properly
Sidebar could not appear in some cases when using the RhinoLands user interface
Notes
Supported Rhino versions
Rhino 8 SR11 or later, and
Rhino 7 SR33 or later
Supported AutoCAD versions
AutoCAD 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Lands Design 6.1 (July 2024)
Lands Design 6 for AutoCAD
Improvements
Take species flowering color into account when assigning the default crown file
Take CPlane orientation into account when inserting Lands objects (lists, labels, plant photos…)
Better highlight in viewport of curves selected from terrain Input Data properties tab
Interface
New buttons in RhinoLands Visualization tab to set the view aligned to CPlane
New buttons in RhinoLands sidebar to add/remove control points
Added 2D/3D buttons to Lands Design 6 toolbar
New desktop icon Lands Design 6 to launch it as a plugin on AutoCAD or Rhino, in addition to the RhinoLands desktop icon to use the RhinoLands interface
Error fixes
IFC import/export not working in Rhino 8
Grasshopper bake not working on Lands objects
Japanese translation of RhinoLands ribbon not properly loaded
laDeploy command not properly working
Default terrain contour line colors not properly set
