Intro to Rhino: A few commands that go far
NB Video. Jump forward to ~1:30 to begin!
NB 1. When there’s a length or an option, you can type it (if you can)
NB 2. Use a two button mouse, use a big/second screen (if you can)
drawing: (you can either click to draw or type the dimensions you want)
- points
- circle
- line
- rec
- polyline
- curve
measurements:
- length: length of line or curve
- distance: distance between two points
- area: area of a surface
geometric transformation:
- orient: good when the thing you’re moving is asymmetric/sided/chiral
- offset: scale and copy
- scale1D: good for resizing lines
- scale2D: good for resizing flat shapes
- scale (you can indicate with numbers the scaling factor)
- move
- copy
- arraycrv: orient and copy
2d-3d-2d:
- loft: make connecting surface between two lines/curves
- extrude
- make2d: create 2d shape of selected surface, according to current view
- unrollSrf: turn a volume into flat components
- dupBorders: produce curve from boundary of a surface
cutting/expanding:
- explode
- split: divides a line/curve/surface at a center point/line/intersective-surf/curv
- trim: split + delete
- extend
- rebuild
make many out of one:
- divide: dividing lines/curves into equal parts
- rebuild: either turn cuves into lines or make ugly curves pretty curves
housekeeping/getting-around:
- layer: show layers window (use many layers!)
- show/hide
- setPt
- zs: zoom set, show you just the selected object in the active transport
- join: make one curve out of many segements
- group