Morphé Connects Advanced Geometry Modelling with Parametric Design
Metamorphic AM has launched Morphé, a new plugin for Rhino 8 that brings implicit modelling, voxel processing, and vector-field tools directly into Grasshopper, allowing engineers to generate, rework and explore complex geometry without leaving the parametric environment in which it was created.
Extending the Capabilities of Parametric Design
Morphé addresses a limitation in advanced design workflows. Mainstream CAD is highly capable, but it can struggle with lattices, merged channels, graded walls, conformal structures, and data-driven geometry. The question is not which CAD package is ‘best’, but whether it lets engineers explore the geometry the application demands. Specialist tools can solve these problems, but often sit downstream, where export breaks the parametric connection.
Morphé keeps that connection intact.
Implicit Modelling, Voxel Processing and Vector Fields
Its implicit engine computes shapes as functions over space, enabling robust unions, intersections, shells, offsets, blends, and lofts in complex definitions. Engineers can build custom lattices from curves, surfaces, or formulas, vary them across a part, steer structures through curved volumes, and conform patterns to freeform surfaces.
A complementary voxel engine enables smoothing, reworking, filleting, and repair of meshes or scan data into watertight solids. Vector fields from simulations or measurements can reshape models or control parameters, allowing stress, temperature, pressure, density, and flow to influence thickness, cell size, blend radius, and form.
Maintaining Design Intent and Data Connectivity
All three toolsets interoperate within one Grasshopper graph, with live GPU preview, sectional views, and regional cropping. Keeping geometry, parameters and data connected supports design provenance, with the definition archived alongside the design.
Laurence Coles, Mechanical Design Lead, Co-founder and Director at Metamorphic AM, says, “Engineering teams are increasingly being asked to create shapes that conventional workflows were never built to handle. The answer is not simply another place to finish geometry. It is to put robust modelling capability where the engineering logic already lives, so designers can keep exploring without crossing into another specialist environment.”
Developed from Engineering Applications
Morphé was developed through Metamorphic AM’s engineering work in technically demanding areas including quantum sensing, bioprocessing, and optomechanical systems before being prepared as a commercial product.
Manolis Papastavrou, Computational Design Lead, Co-founder and Director, adds, “Morphé grew from real projects rather than a feature checklist. We needed implicit precision, the freedom to rework voxel geometry, and a way for directional data to shape form. Bringing those capabilities together means an engineer does not have to choose a representation too early or lose design intent when moving between stages.”
Morphé accepts familiar Rhino and Grasshopper geometry, including curves, surfaces, meshes, point clouds, and breps, and returns clean geometry for additive manufacturing, moulding, and fabrication. Working inside Grasshopper also makes these methods more accessible without a separate workflow.
For more information: www.morphe-design.app
