Container options

Many Rhino controls are located in containers. In the Rhino window, the default toolbars on the top, the sidebar on the left, and the panels on the right are all in containers.

Tabs (1), Panel menu button (2), Close button (3), title bar (4).

The title bar only displays in a floating panel window.

When the mouse is positioned over a tab, the mouse wheel will scroll through the tabs.

To rearrange the tabs in the panel

Click and drag the tab to another position within the panel window.

To make a panel stand alone

Click and drag the tab outside the panel window.

To move the tab to another panel window

Click and drag the tab to a different panel window.

To open another panel in the same window

Right-click the tab or click the panel menu button and choose a panel from the menu.

To open a tab in the window where it was previously stored

From the Panels menu, click a panel name.

To close the panel window

Click the button.

Panel appearance options

Horizontal

Tabs appear in a horizontal row across the top of the window.

Vertical

Tabs appear in a vertical row along the right side of the window.

Tab size

Specifies the tab icon size.

Small / Medium / Large

Show panel text

Displays the panel name.

Panels

Block Definitions

BoxEdit

Command History

Display

Document User Text

Environments

File Explorer

Grasshopper

Ground Plane

Help

Layer States

Layers

Layouts

Libraries

Lights

Macro Editor

Materials

Mesh Repair

Move UVN

Named CPlanes

Named Positions

Named Selections

Named Views

Notes

Notifications

Point Deviation

Properties

Rendering

Snapshots

Sun

Textures

Tutorials

Plug-ins may add more panels.

Other

Lock docked containers

Disables the ability of docking and undocking containers.

Help

Opens the Rhino Help in a panel.

See: CommandHelp.

Close

Closes the panel.