How have you customized your Rhino UI?

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

I see the same effect you describe also, the red color was a bit nasty to focus on. I’ve modified the post above, I think it is much better this way.

[Helvetosaur]

The red used in the Align icons is 206,0,0. I also like to use “Rhino red”, the color used in the Rhino type logo, that’s 153,0,0

[Rhino_Bulgaria (Bobi)]

Yes, I can confirm that it’s no longer “3d neon red” like before. Can you make it solid red instead of semi-transparent?

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

@Rhino_Bulgaria

Can you make it solid red instead of semi-transparent?

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

@stevebaer what’s the best way to convert these svg icons back to Rhino 7 icons?

[Rhino_Bulgaria (Bobi)]

Strange. This particular red appears again as a “3d neon” to my eyes. I used the red from your previous icon and it looks 2d again to me. I also used it on the other icon with the arrows on the right side.

[stevebaer]

@Gijs

Hi Steve, what tools do you use?
I’ve been trying out creating icons directly in Rhino, and to some extend it goes well. But I still need to load the svg output from Rhino into illustrator since the svg output from Rhino doesn’t crop precisely around the selected objects I export. Attached is a Rhino file with the icons I was making and a screenshot of loading the resulting icons in a toolbar once processed through illustrator:

I’ve used files from Xara and Affinity with success. There is an icon editor → svg that David Rutten wrote that we’ve had a lot of success with for authoring icons in Rhino, but that functionality is not available in Rhino 8 yet.

@Gijs

@stevebaer what’s the best way to convert these svg icons back to Rhino 7 icons?

We don’t have “save for V7” in the toolbars yet which would convert the svg icons to fixed sized bitmaps embedded in the RUI file. @JohnM do you have any tools yet for downgrading RUI files to V7 from V8?

[brian (Brian Gillespie)]

RH-62792 is fixed in the latest Rhino 7.7 Service Release

[JohnM (John Morse)]

I don’t currently have a method for saving that includes embedding the SVG images as bitmaps but it is on the list. I logged this bug and plan on working on it next week.

[Konrad]

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[Eugen]

@stevebaer

We’ve made a ton of additions just this week in Rhino 8 for SVG support. This week’s Rhino 8 WIP now uses embedded SVG content by default for displaying icons on toolbars and it does look a lot crisper. You can run TestSvgToolbars in V8 to toggle between the older bitmap icons and the new svg based icons.

Next week’s V8 will have the ability to add your own SVG files to toolbars and Rhino for Windows will automatically detect a “dark mode” UI where text is brighter than the background color and will attempt to automatically recolor icons for a dark mode.

Hello!
In case you are not aware - in dark mode, the SVG icons seem to have an anti-aliasing problem yet:

not using SVG:

using SVG:

[MattE]

I’m running into a problem when I try to assign an svg image to a new toolbar button in V8.

I’m using Affinity Designer to draw new vector grpahics for the buttons. To set me off in the right direction, I exported one of the default V8 images (Circle: centre, radius in this case) and opened that in Designer, modified it and exported it to svg with a different file name.

Back in Rhino V8, when I import the new graphic, it assigns to the new button correctly BUT it also overwrites the original (Circle, centre, radius) button graphic with the new image.

Is there a property setting that I need to overwrite to prevent this from happening? Also, once the image is overwritten, I can’t see a way of reinstating the original image. Have I burnt that bridge?

All of this could be covered by adding some new Help to the rhinoicons wiki page that @Fred_C linked to further up this thread.

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

@MattE

Back in Rhino V8, when I import the new graphic, it assigns to the new button correctly BUT it also overwrites the original (Circle, centre, radius) button graphic with the new image.

Hi Matt - if you set the graphic in the macro, and the macro is used elsewhere, it will change in all buttons that use that macro. Does that sound like it might be what is happening?
-Pascal

[MattE]

Hi Pascal - I’m not doing anything clever. Popup toolbar has the Circle: centre, radius button on it. The toolbar linked to that button is ‘Circle’. In the ‘Circle’ toolbar I have a new button which uses the svg image from Affinity Designer. That button calls the ReplaceCircleDia Python script.

[jjcg.23]

Hi, did anyone go deeper for Rhino customisation that what the interface has to offer?
I mean- I saw in VSR and Kajto (Plugins) that in theorie, (most likely with a lot/little of coding effort)
It is possible to change way more then what the rhino otion/interface is exposing to us.
I cant find any Kajto interface Images online so far, but I saw it live and it has a complete customised Interface, which doesn´t have much in common with the standard Rhino Interface at all.
They even changed thr navogation to a IcemSurf / Maya Style key/mouse mapping (which i would really like to try).
So did anyone of you guys go as far down the rabbithole to customize Rhino?

[Helvetosaur]

The amount of effort required to completely change the Rhino interface is massive, so an individual doing this for themselves doesn’t make sense. For commercial purposes, several companies have done this already, notably ex-RhinoGold and Matrix(Gold) which (ran) run Rhino with a completely customized interface designed for jewelry design.

The other way to approach this is to design your interface as a plug-in which can run inside of the standard Rhino interface - which is what most custom add-ons do.

[Alan_Farkas (Alan Farkas (he/him))]

Hey @Helvetosaur how do you create the drop-down menu buttons?

[Helvetosaur]

@Alan_Farkas

how do you create the drop-down menu buttons?

They’re just custom toolbars, with one button that has a link to open the toolbar as a flyout.

The buttons in the toolbar are set to show both the icon and text.

[Alan_Farkas (Alan Farkas (he/him))]

Aha! thanks kindly

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