Hi.
Just a short question:
Is there any possibility to filter layers in the Rhino Mac OS X version ? We are just optimizing our personal workflow and now I am very jealous of my college with his Windows System … =)
Thanks in advance.
not sure what layer filters are but i assume it’s something akin to an osx smart folder?
as of now, i know of no way to do that with rhino layers… what i’ve been doing to keep some of the clutter down (well, i’ve only had 2 models before which had enough layers to warrant this) is manually filtering via sublayers…
select a group of layers you’d like to ‘hide’ in the panel then drag/drop them onto a main layer… the sublayers will now be in a collapsed list which makes the layers panel much easier to navigate…
[assuming you didn’t already know about this 
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Layer filters let you hide layers in the layer dialog based on certain rules. I find it most helpful for finding a layer that I buried deep in some other sub-layers.
oh… yeah, that looks sweet.
I was aiming at the panel:
that SamPage posted. =)
Any ideas @marlin?
Something like this is not in Mac Rhino yet. The current layers panel was modeled from Rhino V4, so I’m guessing that this was added in V5.
Bumping this discussion into the next decade! 
Is this possible in MacRhino7? Looking for a way to group various layer states and then easily toggle through them. (Think “before” and “after” if one were modeling additions to an existing building)
Brilliant!!!
(Pretty essential item for complex models and client presentations.)
Trip down memory lane: When I was first introduced to Rhino (some seventeen? years ago) by a colleague, it was obviously impressive. However, as he tried to show me various iterations of his model, this involved a variety of numerous layers. I was honestly baffled that he had to manually toggle on/off a bunch of layers to display each iteration. VERY time-consuming.
Even back then, my favorite 2D software permitted saving of different preset groupings of layers. While I’m hoping Layer Filters in WIP8 solves this, given no experience, my sense is that layer naming might be critical for this to work as desired? In short, does WIP8 allow the creation of different presets of layers (in their desired viewing state) regardless of naming conventions?
I would think the Layer State Panel would be Rhino’s way for that
never used it so can’t note an opinion… apart from perhaps that it to me make more sense if it was an option within the Layer Panel. So one can see the layers ones saving as a state.
Oooh. I think this works!
Seems to be working. However, the one odd part is that if I make any changes to the individual layers assigned to a Layer State created, sometimes I can update it (RT click) and sometimes the update option is grayed out.
Eventually I can get it to update if I go in and out of the function several times while I’m working. (Can’t reliably replicate issue, so not sure if this is a small bug or something I’m doing improperly)