I’m currently at the very start of learning Rhino. I’m usually working with many custom shortcuts; the first thing I did was change a bunch of them to suit my workflow better.
Is there any option by now to import/export these keyboard shortcuts?
I only found a thread from 2014 that stated this functionality is planned but not implemented.
Thank you very much!
Extra details:
I found that for Rhino v6+ there is a “containers.xml” found in
C:\Users.…\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings\Scheme__Default
but I had a look at this XML and it seems like it only contains the arrangement and settings of the workspace ‘frames’/‘windows’ or how to call them.
Is there no way to copy the general settings from file>properties like undo history memory, autosave intervals, and keyboard shortcuts to another PC?
This is especially bothering me cause I’m currently enrolled in a course for Rhino at an institute that completely resets their working PCs on every boot to a default state, so I would have to copy each individual change to my custom settings every time by hand.
That can be done with the OptionsExport and OptionsImport commands.
It’s only Rhino v8+ that have this xml file, and, as you found, this contains other information. The %AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings\ (that is, the parent folder to the one that you looked into) contains a settings-*.xml file that contains the customizations that you are looking for.
-wim
@wim Unsure if this is the best thread to post this question in but Rhino (V.8) doesn’t seem to remember some of the keyboard shortcuts I create. As soon as I close that session and open another one, they stop working and disappear from the shortcut menu inside of Rhino (Tools > Options > Keyboard).
I can still see them in the settings-*.xml file but they don’t work whenever I launch Rhino.
Is there a shortcut limitation involving “.” and “,” (period and comma, respectively)?
The shortcuts I’m trying to create are Ctrl+Alt+. and Ctrl+Alt+, to toggle the left and right sidebar. They don’t work with Ctrl only either.
(Image below shows the shortcut entry in the .xml file so I know Rhino remembers them somehow - they just don’t work or show up anywhere else).
Big thanks if you can answer this for me as it may be useful to setup other shortcuts involving a period or comma or other symbols for that matter.
That appears to be the case, yes.
I’ve put this on the list of things to be looked at:
→ RH-90325 Keyboard Shortcuts: Combination Gone after Restart
Thanks,
-wim
