Hi all, I’d like to have a Rhino command run every time Rhino starts. I know that I can manually add the command here in options: [image] But I want to add the startup command from a Python script (or rvb script). I am implementing this change on many users’ machines and would like to have the s…

If it helps anyone, there is a way to add startup commands purely in python without that clunky RVB step. Here is the function I now use to add startup commands def addStartupCommand(str_cmd): '''Adds a new command to the startup command list.''' addedCommand = False try: if…

there is a lot of info in this old topic: [image] Script files to load when Rhino starts Scripting Is it possible to add a rvb with rhinoscript? Cannot get it to work if it is even possible. I’m trying with: -_options _rhinoscript Thats as far as I get. Is it possib…

Thanks for the reply - I had read through that topic before posting but unfortunately it does not answer my question. They discuss how to make .RVB scripts run at startup but what I want to do is to script adding a command to options to run at startup.

rhinoscript can: StartupScriptCount Returns the number of startup scripts. StartupScriptList Return the list of startup script files. AddStartupScript Adds a startup script to RhinoScript. DeleteStartupScript Removes a startup script to RhinoScript. my guess is, if you add a file with .py t…

Thanks Tom_P! I couldn’t get Rhino to run a py script from the startupscriptlist but thanks to your links I came up with a bit of a clunky workaround that is doing what I need. If it helps anyone in the future: I have an .RVB script that calls the command that I want: Option Explicit Sub WakeUp()…

Nice one. How do you find coding in Python now, compared to RVB?

I might not be the right person to ask since I started coding in python :wink: but I prefer coding everything in python. Especially since the ScriptEditor doesn’t support RVB

Editing Rhino Options from Python - Run Command on Startup

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Tom_P November 10, 2022, 10:19am 2

there is a lot of info in this old topic:

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Editing Rhino Options from Python - Run Command on Startup

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