Distributing Display Modes

[mpd (Michael Peter Dalsgaard)]

Is there a way to distribute display modes besides having the user import them through the dialog under Rhino options?

Basically I have a BAT file that distributes basic model templates and other things within our organization. I would like to also include the display modes in this distribution so that I can ensure that drawings look the same across our production.

Is this possible?

[Eugen]

Export/import is the only way now, but there is a debate about including display modes in the Rhino file:

Save display modes in Rhino file

Continuing the discussion from Potential Rhino 9 WIP Feature: Flair: thanks for the request, I think this would also help with support. But let’s first discuss what needs to happen, A couple of possible scenarios I could think of: The user makes modifications to a built in profile (do these changes need to be written in the file? The user makes a custom profile The user has a custom profile and modifies this in the file It can become tricky to handle all that, because: Say a user works …

[mpd (Michael Peter Dalsgaard)]

Thanks. Yea I would definetly say I agree that it should be included.

[mpd (Michael Peter Dalsgaard)]

I assume the same is then not possible for things like macros(Aliases) ? If I wanted to distribute some macros that execute grasshopper player files to others in my company.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hej Michael -

@mpd

I assume the same is then not possible for things like macros(Aliases) ?

The Rhino Options -> Aliases page has an Export and an Import button.
-wim

[mpd (Michael Peter Dalsgaard)]

So I looked around and I think what I was looking for was OptionsImport and OptionsExport, in this way I can export all of my display modes and aliases to other users in the company. This seems to work in our testing.

Next question is then, how do I get it to run OptionsImport when opening Rhino? What I really want to do is make a special icon that users open Rhino with that then checks if there are new settings to import (and also imports other things). I tried setting up a command in the target which looks like this:

“C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Rhino.exe” /runscript=“-optionsimport “P:\BROER\CAD\optionsImport.ini” a l d”

It does seem to run the command OptionsImport when opening, but I can’t get it to execute the final three “a l d” inputs.

[mpd (Michael Peter Dalsgaard)]

I figured out that the best way to achieve what I want is to create a pythonscript that runs all the things I want to do on startup. In this way I can execute all the sub commands.