Video tutorials are hard to follow because it is not clear what Rhino command is running at the moment. Current command appears in the Command prompt and Command history for a small fraction of a second, and it is gone. This problem could be mitigated by displaying auto-updated help panel. Unfortuna…

If you intend to record your own tutorials you can dock the Help panel with Auto-update checked. It’ll show the help-page of the command currently being run.

Looks great! I wonder how can we persuade the instructors to use this plugin. :confused: :roll_eyes:

[image] nathanletwory: If you intend to record your own tutorials I do not. [image] nathanletwory: you can dock the Help panel with Auto-update checked. It’ll show the help-page of the command currently being run. This is what I wrote.

The plugin works fine in Rhino 6 and 7 after I reduced its panel height and docked it on top of other panels. [Rhino tutorial pane 2] [Rhino tutorial pane 3]

Take a look at this silent timelapse of SubD motorcycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3izLSXXcw It is hard to figure out what commands Kyle Houchens is using, even if you slow down the video. I have sent email about the tutorial panel plugin to Kyle Houchens, but he ignored my email.

Hey Andrew- never saw an e-mail from you. I never ignore stuff from users! I’ll do some experimenting with this and see what I can do to accommodate.

oof… just tried this… it’s waaaay too slow to use for a long build. Sorry but I won’t be able to use this. what I can do is to open my command line up a bit so you can see the command history for longer.

[image] theoutside: what I can do is to open my command line up a bit so you can see the command history for longer. You will lose lots of screen real estate unless the command prompt window is narrow in the horizontal direction. (There is a bug which ignores last command-line options in the …

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New feature request - tutorial pane

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)

Mahdiyar April 1, 2020, 8:18am 3

Plugin: TutorialPanelPlugin.rhp (41 KB)
Source Code: TutorialPanelPlugin.zip (5.5 MB)

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