A layout viewport represents the sheet of paper that will be sent to a printer or a file such as PDF. Layouts can include various views of the model and annotations like title blocks and notes.

Toolbar	Menu
Drafting Layout Viewport Layout	View and Layout Title Layout > New Layout

Two types of viewports provide different functions: model viewports and layout viewports.

In model viewports, create your surface or solid model using the appropriate units and precision.

In layout viewports, place one or more details of your model and add information that annotates the printed sheet, such as manufacturing notes, bill of materials, general notes, title blocks, seals, and scale bars.

These viewports are accessible on the tabs at the bottom of the modeling area. The ViewportTabs command turns the tabs on and off.

Detail viewports

Name

Select Printer

Printer

Size

Portrait / Landscape

Width / Height

Sets the size of the paper as well as the width (x length) and height (y length) of the layout. If the paper size not support by the selected printer, the Printer setting will be disabled.

Initial Detail Count

Steps

In the New Layout dialog box, specify options.
Draw a border or insert a title block onto the layout.
Add text that does not relate to the model such as the project name, sheet number, sheet content, and the like.
Add annotation objects such as text and title blocks.
Create details and arrange them on the layout.
In each detail set up view of the model, orientation, and scale.
In the layout viewport, add text and dimensions.
Set the visibility of the detail edge on the printed page.
Use Properties to access the Print Width No Print property.
Print.

Make layout details of any shape

You can make details of any shape using a solid white hatch in the layout.

Steps

Set up a layout with one or more details.
Scale the details as you wish.
In the layout, draw a rectangle from the corners of the page.
In the layout, draw your detail shape.
Use any planar curve: Circle, Curve, InterpCrv, RevCloud, Rectangle, etc.
Create a solid hatch using the rectangle at the drawing edge and the detail shapes.
Make the color of the hatch white.
Add anything else you want in the layout such as detail names.
Print.

Note

Try turning History on, then make a hatch. If you stretch the boundaries, the hatch will update.
Use Draw Order to keep your text, title blocks, dimensions on top. It can be frustrating if the text or dims that you are looking for has gone behind the hatch.
You cannot trim a hatch. To add another detail to the page, delete the hatch and remake it with all the boundaries.
You cannot bring a detail above the hatch. Hatch has draw order priority to be on top.

Related commands

The ImportLayout command imports one or more layouts from a Rhino file into the current Rhino model.

This allows defining standard title block pages in a single file and importing those pages into other Rhino files.

Option-click a layout thumbnail and a plus symbol should appear on the cursor as you drag. This will make a copy of the layout, much like you would copy a file in Finder, or an object in Rhino.

Toolbar	Menu
Layout	Not on menus.

Toolbar	Menu
Drafting Layout	Not on menus.

ShowLayouts

Toolbar	Menu	Viewport control bar
Not on toolbars.	Not on menus.	Layouts...

Toolbar

Viewport control bar

Not on toolbars.

Not on menus.

Layouts...

The ShowLayouts command opens the layout windows. If no layouts exist in the model, the ShowLayouts command opens the Open / Modify Layout dialog box.

Layout

Detail viewports

Name

Select Printer

Printer

Size

Portrait / Landscape

Width / Height

<inches / millimeters / centimeters>

Initial Detail Count

Steps

Make layout details of any shape

Steps

Note

Related commands

ImportLayout

CopyLayout

LayoutProperties

ShowLayouts

See also