Toolbar group
The Toolbar group organizes the features in eight tabs:
Drawing Toolbar
Drawing commands:
Draw points
- Point: Draws a single point object at a specified location.
- Points: Draws multiple point objects.
- Point Cloud: Creates a set of vertices from point objects.
Draw Lines and polylines
- Polyline: Draws a series of joined line segments.
- Rectangle: Draws a rectangular closed polyline with options for starting.
- Rectangle, Center: Draws a rectangle from the center point and a corner.
- Rectangle, 3Points: Draws a rectangle through three points.
- Polygon: Draws a closed polyline with a specified number of sides.
- Polygon, Circumscribed: Draws a polygon where the midpoints of the sides touch an imaginary circle of a specified radius.
- Polygon, Edge: Draws a polygon by defining one edge.
- Polygon, Star: Draws a star-shaped polygon.
Draw Curves
- Curve: Draw a curve from control point locations.
- InterpCrv : Fit a curve through picked locations.
- Sketch : Drag the mouse to draw a curve.
- Circle: Draws a circle from a center location and a radius.
- Circle, Diameter: Draws a circle from points on diameter.
- Circle, 3Points: Draws a circle through three points on the circumference.
- Ellipse: Draws a closed elliptical curve.
- Ellipse, Diameter: Draws the ellipse from points on its axes.
- Arc: Draws an arc with options for center, start, angle, and direction.
- Arc: Start, End, Direction: Arc by start, end, direction at start.
- Arc: Start, End, Radius:Arc by start, end, radius.
- Arc: Start, End, Point on arc:Arc by start, end, point on arc.
Curve Tools
- Offset: Copies a curve parallel at a specified distance from the original curve.
- Chamfer: Creates a line segment between two curves and trims or extends the curves to meet it.
- Fillet:Adds an arc between two curves and trims or extends the curves to the arc.
- Match: Changes a curve end to meet another curve or surface edge with a specified continuity.
- Extend: Extends a curve by its natural extension to a boundary or point.
- Rebuild: Reconstructs curves, surfaces, and extrusion objects to a specified degree and control point number.
- Symmetry: Mirrors a copy of a curve.
- Curve boolean: Trims, splits, and joins curves based on their overlapping regions.
- Hatch: Draws a pattern of lines to fill bounding curves.
- Superhatch: Draws a textured surface to fill bounding curves based on a bitmap repetition.
- Picture: Draws a rectangular planar surface with a bitmap texture.
Modeling Toolbar
Modeling commands:
Surface Creation
- Surface: Draws a surface from specified corner points.
- Plane: Draws a rectangular planar surface.
- Plane, 3 points: Draws a rectangular planar surface from three points.
- PlanarSrf: Creates a planar surface from planar curves.
- EdgeSrf: Creates a surface from two, three, or four curves.
- NetworkSrf: Fits a surface through a network of crossing curves.
- Patch: Fits a surface through curves and point objects.
- Loft: Fits a surface through profile curves that define the surface shape.
- Sweep: Fits a surface through a series of profile curves that define the surface cross-sections and one curve that defines a surface edge.
- Revolve: Create a surface by revolving a profile curve around an axis.
Solid Creation
- Box: Draws a solid box.
- Pyramid: Draws a pyramid.
- TruncatedPyramid: Draws a pyramid whose apex is truncated by a plane.
- Cylinder: Draws a polysurface cylinder.
- Cone: Creates a surface cone.
- Truncated Cone: Draws a cone whose apex is truncated by a plane.
- Tube: Draws a closed cylinder with a concentric cylindrical hole.
- Torus: Draws a torus (doughnut shape).
- Pipe: Creates a surface, polysurface, or extrusion object with a circular profile around a curve.
- Sphere: Draws a solid sphere.
- Extrude Curve: Creates a surface by tracing the path of a curve in a straight line.
- Extrude Surface: Creates a solid by tracing the path of the surface edges in a straight line.
- PushPull: Extrudes a polysurface face to interactively add or remove volumes on the polysurface.
Surface Tools
- Offset Srf: Copies a surface or polysurface so that locations on the copied surface are the same specified distance from the original surface.
- Chamfer Srf: Creates a ruled surface as a bevel between two input surface edges.
- Fillet Srf: Creates a constant-radius round surface between two surfaces.
- Rebuild Srf: Reconstructs selected curves or surfaces to a specified degree and control point number.
- Symmetry Srf: Mirrors a copy of a surface.
- Planar Union: Merges overlapped planar surfaces into a single surface.
- Planar Difference: Selects two overlapped planar surfaces and creates a surface from the first surface with the overlapped area trimmed off.
- Planar Intersection: Creates a surface from the overlapped area of two planar surfaces.
Solid Tools
- Boolean Union: Combine the volumes of one or more objects.
- Boolean Difference: Subtracts the volume of one set of objects from another.
- Boolean Intersection: Create a new solid from solids' intersected volumes.
- Move Edge: Moves a polysurface edge.
- Move face: Moves a polysurface face.
- Chamfer Edge: Drives a surface face in a straight line to create a solid.
- Fillet Edge: Drives a surface face in a straight line to create a solid.
- Cap: Fills planar holes in objects with planar faces.
Curves from objects
- Project: Project curves/points toward a construction plane to intersect a surface, polysurface or mesh.
- Pull: Moves curves and points toward the normal direction of a surface, mesh or polysurface to find intersections.
- DupEdge: Create a curve that copies a surface edge.
- DupBorder: Create a curve or polyline that copies a surface, polysurface, or mesh border.
- DupFaceBorder: Creates a curve that copies a polysurface face border.
- Intersect: Create point objects or curves at the intersections of curves and surfaces.
Terrain Toolbar
Terrain commands:
- Earth Data: Scans a terrain from the cloud and imports it as a textured mesh or a terrain object.
- Import DEM: Uses the data from a DEM file to import it as a terrain object.
- Import GIS: Uses the data from a .shp file to import it as a terrain object.
- Elevate Curves: Elevates curves every certain distance in order to be used to build a terrain.
- Terrain: Creates a mesh by lifting a surface from 3D curves, contour lines or point clouds.
- Add Contour: Adds a new input data to an existing terrain.
- Pick boundary: Specifies a closed curve to define a terrain boundary.
- Divide: Divides the terrain into two parts using a closed curve.
- Add Hole: Adds a hole to an existing terrain from a closed curve.
- Add Cut and Fill: Generates cuts and fills in the terrain from a closed curve.
- Add Path: Modifies the terrain geometry in order to place a path in it.
- Volume of Earthmoving: Informs about the total amount of volume from cuts and fills applied on a terrain.
- Tag Object as Terrain: Tag a selected object as a terrain.
- Elevate to Terrain: Moves the selected objects vertically until it lies onto a terrain surface, or onto an object that has been tagged as a terrain.
Vegetation and Hardscape Toolbar
Vegetation and hardscape commands:
Vegetation Tools
- PlantDatabase: Opens the plant species Database.
- Plant: Inserts a specimen of the selected species from the Database.
- Plants Paint: Inserts an array of multiple plants along the path where you hover the mouse pointer.
- Plant from Points: Inserts a plant in the location of the selected points.
- Plant from Blocks: Replace a block instance with the selected plant from the Database.
- Plant Row: Inserts the selected plant species along a path curve.
- Plant Row: Inserts the selected plant species along a path curve.
- Forest: Inserts the selected plant species inside a boundary curve.
- Shrub: Inserts a specimen of the selected shrub species from the Database.
- Groundcover: Fills an area with the selected plant species.
- Topiary: Wraps any geometry with the selected plant species.
- Tag Object as Plant: Tag a selected object as a plant.
Civil Work Tools
- Wall: Inserts a wall by defining its thickness, height and path curve.
- Fence: Inserts a customized fence along a path curve.
- Stair: Inserts a customized stair along a path curve.
- Ramp: Inserts a ramp by defining its slope and path curve.
- Path: Inserts a path by defining its section profile and path curve.
- Urban Furniture: Inserts the selected furniture from the block library.
- Row: Inserts a row of the selected element along a path curve.
Irrigation Toolbar
Irrigation commands:
- Sprinkler: Inserts a sprinkler.
- Sprinkler Array: Inserts an array of sprinklers that covers a specific area.
- Pipe: Draws a pipe by connecting sprinklers or using a selected polyline.
Documentation Toolbar
- Zonify: Creates a surface entity that displays the information (name and square meter) of an area in the model.
- Level Mark: Draws an elevation mark as a reference point to determine height or elevation on the plan.
- Slope: Draws an annotation leader with arrowhead displaying the slope of a selected path.
- Dimension: Allows the dimensioning of plants, civil work elements and other entities from a specific coordinate origin point on the plan.
- LaPlantShadows: Creates a shadow effect under the vegetation species in 2D plan views.
Listing Tools
- Plant List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing plant species in the model.
- Urban Furniture List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing urban furniture blocks in the model.
- Fences List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing fences in the model.
- Wall List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing walls in the model.
- Path List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing paths in the model.
- Zoning List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing zonified areas in the model.
- Sprinkler List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing sprinklers in the model.
- Pipe List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing pipes in the model.
- Terrain List: Inserts a table displaying the information of the existing terrains in the model.
- Export List: Exports the selected list to .xls (Excel) and .html format.
Labeling plants Tools
- Plant Photo: Creates a label with an image loaded from the cloud, and draws a leader pointing to the referenced plant.
- Plant Label: Inserts a customized label displaying the information of the selected plant in the model.
- Plant label Linking: Inserts a customized label displaying the information of a group of plants selected in the model.
- Label: Opens RhinoLands Database.
- Section: Create a plane that hides objects.
Annotation tools
- Text: Creates annotation text.
- Linear Dimension: Draws horizontal or vertical linear dimensions.
- DimAligned: Draw a linear dimension lined up with two points.
- DimAngle: Dimension the angle between two lines.
- DimRadius: Dimension the radius of an arc or circle.
- Distance: Report the distance between two picked locations.
- Leader: Draw an annotation leader with attached text.
- Arrowhead: Create or remove an arrowhead on a curve.
Create Layouts
- New Layout, 1 Detail: Create a print layout viewport.
- Detail, Add:: Add a detail viewport.
Visualization Toolbar
Viewport windows
- Maximize Viewport: Maximizes the active viewport inside the RhinoLands application window.
- 4Viewports: Sets up a four-viewport workspace.
- 3Viewports: Sets up a three-viewport workspace.
Set view
- Top View: Sets the active view to look at the Top.
- Front View: Sets the active view to look at the Front.
- Back View: Sets the active view to look at the Back.
- Left view: Sets the active view to look at the Left.
- Right view: Sets the active view to look at the Right.
- Perspective view: Sets the active view to look at in Perspective.
- Set Viewpoint: Sets the camera viewpoint from the viewer and target position.
- Walk Mode: Lets you walk through the project using the keyboard and mouse buttons.
Display Modes
- Wirwframe: Sets the active viewport to display wireframe mode.
- Shaded: Sets the active viewport to display shade mode.
- Rendered: Sets the active viewport to display rendered mode.
- Hidden: Sets the active viewport to display hidden mode.
- Conceptual: Sets the active viewport to display conceptual mode.
- Realistic: Sets the active viewport to display realistic mode.
Rendering Tools
- Render: Renders the objects using the current renderer.
- Render Preview: Renders the current viewport in the Render window with a rough quality for a fast preview.
- Open Last Rendering: Opens the last rendering image file.
- Image Filters: Applies multiple filters to the rendered images.
Select Toolbar
- Select All: Selects all objects.
- Select None: Deselects all objects.
- Select Invert: Deselects all selected objects and selects all visible objects that were not previously selected.
Select drawing and modeling objects
- Select Curves: Selects all curves.
- Select Points: Selects all point objects.
- Select Point clouds: Selects all point cloud objects.
- Select Hatches: Selects hatch objects.
- Select Meshes: Selects all meshes.
- Select Surfaces: Selects all surfaces.
- Select Polysurfaces: Select all polysurfaces.
- Select Block Instances: Select all block instances.
Select vegetation and hardscape objects
- Select Plants: Select all plant objects.
- Select Plant Rows:Select all plant row objects.
- Select Forests: Select all forest objects.
- Select Shrubs: Select all shrub objects.
- Select Groundcovers: Select all Groundcover objects.
- Select Topiaries: Select all topiary objects.
- Select Urban Furniture: Select all Urban Furniture blocks.
- Select Rows: Select all row objects.
- Select Walls: Select all wall objects.
- Select Fences: Select all fence objects.
- Select Stairs: Select all stair objects.
- Select Ramps: Select all ramp objects.
- Select Path: Select path objects.
- Select Terrains: Select all terrain objects.
- Select Sprinklers: Select all sprinkler objects.
- Select Sprinkler Arrays: Select all Sprinkler array objects.
- Select Pipes: Select all pipes objects.
- Select Zones: Select all zone objects.
- Select Lists: Select all list objects.
- Select Plant Photos: Select all plant photo objects.
- Plant Labels: Select all plant lebels.
- Select Labels: Select all label objects.