Custom Layout Rhino 8

[ArchiCraig]

Hello @ishadams ,

Here is a very good explanation on the difference with toolbars saving between R7 & R8.

@Helvetosaur

There is one basic library supplied with Rhino, “default” You can modify it as you like. Changes to this library are automatically stored in the settings folder as you make them - there is no need to manually save them - actually there is no way to do so.

You can have different libraries other than default… These are your .rui.

In V8 an .rui is basically just an additional library and set of toolbars that you can add, that is (theoretically) independent of default. These you can save manually via the Toolbar dialog. Intermediate changes to an .rui are saved “temporarily” in the settings file, and when you manually save the .rui, the changes are transferred “permanently” to the .rui. This system is still in flux and will probably change.

I didn’t mention containers here. Containers are basically groups of toolbars (you can also have panels in the same group). Every toolbar needs to be in a container, even if it is a single toolbar (i.e. a group of one). A given toolbar can also be in several containers (like with groups of objects in Rhino). So containers are an organizational scheme for toolbars, but they do not actually have anything to do with the toolbar buttons or macros themselves.