Sizes and Styles

Tools > Options > Toolbars > Sizes and Styles

The Size and Styles page manages the appearance of toolbar buttons.

New toolbar system in Rhino 8

Rhino 8 uses a new toolbar system very different from the previous versions. The default toolbars are read-only and embedded in the Rhino app. Changes made to the default toolbars are stored in the associated xml file in:

%AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings\Scheme__Default

Linked toolbar files (*.rui) also have the xml files if their toolbars were ever edited. Deleting the xml file restores the original toolbars in the rui file.

Toolbar Appearance

Button Size

Controls the image size of toolbar buttons.

Tab Size

Controls the image size of toolbar and panel tabs.

  • Move the slider, or double-click the slider to enter a number.
Sidebar visible

Displays the sidebar container.

"Sidebar" is a special container that displays an existing container according to the currently active toolbar tab. In the default workspace, if you click on the Curve Tools tab, the Curve drawing sidebar container will display in Sidebar.

To link a container to a tab as a sidebar

  1. Right-click on a toolbar tab and select Properties.
  2. In the Container Properties dialog box, click the button in the Sidebar section.
Hide single tab when docked

Do not display the tab when a docked container only has a toolbar or panel.

Lock docked containers

Do not allow docking/undocking containers and reordering tabs.

Cascade delay (in milliseconds)

The default delay timing is 400 ms. It means the linked toolbar of a button will appear after you click and hold the left mouse button 400 ms.

Cascade as menu

Shows flyout toolbars (left) as menus (right).

Tab Display Style

These settings control the tab styles based on floating and docking status of the containers.

Floating

For standalone containers.

Docked top/bottom

For the containers docked horizontally.

Docked side

For the containers docked vertically.

Image only

Text only

Both image and text

Most Recently Used Toolbar

Maximum buttons

Sets how many command buttons (up to 50) can display on the Recently Used toolbar.

The Recently Used toolbar is a special toolbar with the buttons dynamically updated when you click any toolbar buttons.