From the course: Learning Rhino 5 for Mac
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Staying organized - Rhino for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rhino 5 for Mac
Staying organized
- Most of the example files we'll work within this course are relatively simple. Maybe they contain a few objects, probably a dozen at most, but when we're working with Rhino 5 for Mac in the real world, it's not difficult for a file to become very complicated with dozens or even hundreds of individual objects. So it's important to get into good organizational habits early on before your files become a jumbled mess. Let's take a look at two key organizational tools in the Rhino 5 for Mac: Layers and Annotations. Let's start out with Layers. Simply put, Layers help us group objects apart from one another. You can think of them kind of like containers for all the different pieces in your Rhino file. They're also very similar to layers in other programs, like Photoshop or Maya. In Rhino, we can access Layers through a panel either in the right side bar. You might need to toggle yours on and click the Layers icon. We can also get to them from this drop-down that's up above the viewport…
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