RHINO COMMANDS

 

Area/ DimArea: Report and objects area/dimension

 

Array: Copies objects spaced in columns, rows, and levels in the x-, y-, and z-directions.

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Array Polar:  copies objects around a central location

 

Bend: Deform object along an arc

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Blend Surface: Create a blend surface between two surfaces with continuity control.

 

Block: links repeating objects

 

Block edit: Allow selecting a block instance to change the block geometry and update the block definition.

 

Block Manager: add, remove, and update block definitions

 

Boolean Solid(Union/Difference/Intersection): Works best on closed surfaces and polysurfaces to join, subtract, or intersect a solid shape from another solid to form a new solid.

 

Bounding Box: creates a box that encloses selected objects or sub-objects.

 

Cage: Create a control cage object used by the CageEdit command to deform other objects.

 

Cap: closes an object that you’ve split or extruded to form a solid – not only works when the surfaces are planar

 

Chamfer: Create a line segment between two curves and trims or extends the curves to meet it.

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Change Degree: Change the degree of the polynomial that defines the curve or surface by adding or subtracting control points between knot spans, while maintaining the knot structure.

 

ClippingPlane: shows you a cut through of a particular part of an object without actually splitting it in the model; for a specific viewport, click on the plane and use “EnableClippingPlane” to turn it on and “DisableClippingPlane” to turn it off in that viewport

 

CloseCrv: Close open curves.

 

Copy: Duplicate objects.

 

Connect Surface: Extend surface edges to meet and trims the surfaces to each other.

 

Contour: Create a spaced series of planar curves and points through objects.

 

Curve Boolean: Trim, split, and join curves based on their overlapping regions.

 

Curvature Analysis: Evaluate surface curvature using false-color analysis.

 

Devloft: Creates a single developable surface between two rails.

 

DimCurveLength: Dimension the length of a curve.

 

Distance: measures the distance between two points

 

Divide: Create point objects along a curve by the number of equal length segments or segments of a specified length.

 

Dot:  Draws an annotation dot that stays parallel to and sizes with the view.

 

Drape: Create a surface through the intersections of objects and points projected toward the construction plane.

 

DrapePt: Create a grid of points at the intersections of objects and points projected toward the construction plane.

 

DupEdge/ Dupborder/ Dupface: duplicates the edge of an object.

 

Emap: Visually evaluate surface smoothness using an image bitmap reflected in the surface.

 

Extend/ ExtendSrf: Lengthen a curve/surface by a value.

 

ExtractPt/ srf: Duplicate curve control or edit points, surface control points, and mesh vertices.

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ExtrudeCrv: extrude closed planar curves in a straight line

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ExtrudeCrvToPnt: Drive closed planar curves tapering to a point.

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ExtrudeSrf: Drive surface edges in a straight line to create a solid.

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Explode: breaks objects down into components curves, surfaces, meshes, text, blocks, etc

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Fillet: Add an arc between two curves and trims or extends the curves to the arc.

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Flip: Reverse the normal direction of a curve, surface, or mesh.

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FlowAlongSurface: Re-align objects from a source surface to a target surface.

 

Foldface: Rotate polysurface faces around an axis

 

Group/Ungroup: groups multiple objects or curves

 

Gumballalignment: Reset the gumball widget alignment.

 

Gumballrelocate: Changes the Gumball widget location and orientation of on an object.

 

Hatch: (hatchscale/hatchbase) Create a pattern of lines to fill bounding curves.

 

Heightfield: Create a surface based on gray-scale color values in an image file.

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Hide/Show: Conceal objects from view.       

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Invert select and hide:

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Insertknot: Add knots to curves or surfaces.

 

Intersect: Create point objects or curves at the intersections of curves and surfaces.

 

Isolate: Hide all but the currently selected objects.

 

Join: Connect curves, surface edges, or surfaces to form a single object.

 

Loft: Fit a surface through profile curves that define the surface shape.

 

Make2D: Project geometry to the construction plane.

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MergeAllFaces: Merge all faces into a single surface

 

Mirror: Create a mirror-image copy of objects.

 

Move / MoveFace/ MoveEdge:

 

Network Surface: Fit a surface through a network of crossing curves.

 

Nurb to Mesh:

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Offset: Copy a curve parallel to the original.

 

Offset Surface: Copy a surface parallel to the original.

 

Patch: Fit a surface through curves and point objects.

 

Picture: places a picture in your model

 

PointsOn/ PointsOff: allows you to edit a curve or shape that you’ve already made

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PlanarSrf: gives a surface to a closed planar curve

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Project: projects curves or surfaces along an irregular surface; make sure that the curve/surface is directly above or below the surface to which you want to project; “

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Project to cplane: flattens objects on different planes onto construction plane

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Rotate: rotates an object

 

Rotate3d: rotates an object in 3d

 

Scale: Change the size of objects uniformly in the x, y, and z directions.

 

Scale1D/Scale2D: Change the size of objects in one/ two directions.

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Section: creates section cuts through an object – great for laser cutting topographies

 

SelBoundary: Select objects within an existing closed curve.

 

SelDup: selects duplicate objects in the model.

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Show/Hide: show makes objects visible, hide makes them invisible

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Shell: Remove the selected surfaces from a polysurface, and then offset the remaining surfaces to create a solid with a specified thickness.

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ShrinkTrimmedSrf: Contract the underlying untrimmed surface close to trimming boundaries.

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Smash: Flatten a surface without restriction to single-directional curvature.

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Split: splits apart surfaces, lines

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Sweep (1 & 2): creates a thickness by “sweeping”  a shape along a curve

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Text: creates text

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Trim: allows you to trim intersecting lines

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Turntable: automatically rotates your object

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Tweencurves: Create curves between two open or closed input curves.

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Units: changes the units that you work in (Imperial/Metric)

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Unrollsrf: explodes a closed object into multiple planes – great for making laser cutting files!

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Untrim: removes trim curves from trimmed surfaces

 

Zoom: zooms to selected area or object

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Force an Axo view for object

! _Select _Pause _SetActiveViewport Top _Rotate 0 30 _SetActiveViewport Right _Shear w0 w0,0,1 -45 _SetActiveViewport Top _Zoom _All _Extents