I’m currently working on a larger project with many different drawing phases—initial sketches, technical drawings, presentation layouts, etc. I’m using Rhino Layouts extensively to organize my sheets, and while it works well, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to keep things tidy as the number of layouts grows.
It would be incredibly helpful if Layouts could be grouped into folders or collapsible sections within the Layout panel—similar to how layers can be grouped. For example:
Draft Phase
01_Concept_Overview
02_Initial_Sections
Technical Phase
01_Structural_Details
02_Exploded Views
Presentation
01_Final_Overview
02_Materials & Textures
This would make it much easier to navigate, especially in complex projects. Currently, I use naming conventions to mimic this (e.g., 01_Draft_Overview), but it quickly becomes cluttered.
Would something like this be possible in the future? Even just collapsible layout groups or tabs would improve the workflow significantly.
Would love to hear if others feel the same—or if there are any hidden tools or plugins that already make this easier!
It’s indeed needed. I would like Rhino tagging system to be utilized here. So what you mean by folder could be a “Tag group” that will contain one, or a couple of tags (preferably also with exclusions). Tags are more flexible than folders because one Layout can be grouped inside several “Tag groups” at the same time. This also doesn’t prevent you from assigning Layouts just to one Tag group at the time if you want to follow the folder convention. Right now tags in Rhino are rather obscure and I hope they will see the daylight with some good UI.
+1 it seems like there is a lot of potential here that really isn’t being used. A simple filtering system even in other things like Layer, Material, Linetype, etc panel for tags can genuinely create a lot of use cases. All of these are derived from the Model Content Class and have the ability to be named and tagged. Right now grasshopper is the only way to access this function.
Draft Phase
