Appearance

Tools > Options > Appearance

The Appearance options define the colors and visibility of Rhino display items.

Language used for display

Sets the language used for the Rhino interface. You can select from the list of available languages.

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Command prompt

These settings affect the appearance of the command prompt and the command history window.

Font

The text appearance.

  • Click to open the drop-down list, and type the initial letter of a font to find the font quickly.

  • Click the font control twice and scroll the mouse wheel to select a font with preview.

  • If a font used by an annotation is missing on the current system:

    You will be prompted when the model is opened.

    Enable the "Don't show this message again" checkbox in the warning dialog box to stop detecting missing fonts.

    To re-enable missing font detection, enable Rhino.Warnings.MissingFontWarning in Rhino Options > Advanced.

    The annotation displays with a substitute font in viewports.

    The missing font is listed with "(not installed)" in the font list.

Text size

Sets the font size.

Background

Sets the background color.

Text color

Sets the color of the text.

Hover color

Sets the color that displays when the mouse hovers over an option at the command prompt.

Echo prompts to history

Allows the command prompt to move into a command history window after use. Turn this off to see only the command name in the history window and not the prompts.

Autocomplete commands

Turns on automatic command completion when typing at the command prompt.

Use fuzzy autocomplete

When enabled, in-line autocomplete suggests the most used candidate. For example, LI most likely autocompletes to Line rather than something like LimitReferenceModel, and the autocomplete menu contains best partial and inexact matches.

When disabled, autocomplete uses the first letters of the command name in an alphabetical list.

Direction arrow icon

Shaft size

Sets the length of the shaft for the arrows in the Dir command.

Arrowhead size

Sets the size of the arrowhead for the arrows in the Dir command.


Default direction arrow shaft and head size.

Size of arrow shaft and head doubled.

Show the following items

Menu

Toggles the visibility of menus.

Command prompt

Toggles the command area display.

Status bar

Toggles the visibility of the status bar.

Viewport titles

Toggles the visibility of the viewport titles.

Main window title bar

Toggles the visibility of the Rhino main window title bar.

Full path in title bar

Displays the full path to the model in the title bar.

Crosshairs

Toggles the display of full-screen crosshairs.

Viewport tabs at start

Displays viewport tabs by default when Rhino starts.

Restore Defaults

Restores the default system values. All custom appearance settings will be lost.

Save options for use on other computers

OptionsExport

Save Options settings to a file.

OptionsImport

Restore Options settings from a file.

See also

Interface color options