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.