Hello.
Does Rhino has ability to show information (such as length, radius, angle, what layer, etc) about a selected object(s) automatically, something similar to what command but not in annoying popup, but as always opened toolbar?
In AutoCAD it’s Properties toolbar, where you can also adjust many parameters of the objects:
Thank you.
Hi @vano_artful
Rhino does show the layer of “a” selected object in the properties tab as you can see from your screen grab but not for multiple objects, argh.
I have to agree I have always wanted the basic information you requested and be able to adjust the parameters from within the properties tab. That tab should be a spread sheet where we can display any information about the object we wish instead of it being hard coded like it currently is.
RM
Something like Alias’ Information Window and Control Panel is dearly needed. Rhino since like forever has all that information about every object available “under the hood”. It just needs to be displayed to the user persistently, also allowing to change basic parameters.
Hi Vano -
There’s the WhatPanel from Dale’s Garage plug-in that can be installed from the Package Manager.
-wim
Hi @wim
Does the what panel work in V7?
I only see these commands and the Garage command merely loads the plugin so it only does three commands.
Baseball
Garage
Guilloche
OverCut
Where’s the what panel you speak of?
RM
Hi Roland -
No. That panel is part of a newer version of that plug-in.
-wim
Hi @wim
Thanks for your quick reply.
I still think Rhino could do away with all these panels if you had a decent spread sheet tool where one could list any information, change it and have it interact with formulas and scripts similar to excel. Instead of excel methods we would use Rhino methods they already exist, but have the methods/commands activated via icons. Like select objects you get all the properties in a column similar to excel.
If McNeel crafted or licensed a spread sheet control as they call it, using the current scripting/programming methods would make it incredibly useful. If we could have something like Libreoffice (maybe even begin there since it’s free and open source) folded into Rhino instead of cumbersome eto forms we could even craft our own block managers and so many things.
“As part of the LibreOffice software package, Calc is a free and open-source spreadsheet application that offers nearly all the features you can want from standard spreadsheets.
It is also available for a variety of platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. You can use it to read and write most excel files, as well as its native ODF and CSV formats.
Calc is great for both simple and large datasets. It supports up to 1 million rows, so it is a solid application for compute-intensive scientific work as well.
There are advanced number-crunching features with built-in wizards to help you along the way. Plus, external database integration and multi-user support for collaboration.”
RM
