3View

Sets the viewport layout to the standard three-viewport layout: Top, Perspective, and Front.

If new viewports are created, the following settings match the currently active viewport: snap spacing, grid spacing, major grid line interval, grid extents, grid visibility, grid axes visibility, and world axes icon visibility.

4View

Sets the viewport layout to the standard four-viewport layout: Top, Perspective, Right, and Front.

If new viewports are created, the following settings match the currently active viewport: snap spacing, grid spacing, major grid line interval, grid extents, grid visibility, grid axes visibility, and world axes icon visibility.

The 4View command can operate in two different ways.

When views are not in default layout:

If four views with the names Top, Front, Right, and Perspective are not located or sized in their default position, all four views are reset to their typical layout. The orientation and construction plane for existing views are not modified.

When views are in their default layout:

If four views with the names Top, Front, Right, and Perspective are located and sized to their default layout, the orientation and construction planes are reset their default world orientations.

Using the command twice in sequence bring all viewport sizes and orientation and their construction planes back to the default locations.

NewViewport

Creates a new viewport.

The following settings match the currently active viewport: snap spacing, grid spacing, major grid line interval, grid extents, grid visibility, grid axes visibility, and world axes icon visibility.

-NewViewport

The hyphenated version adds command line options.

Name

Top=<Location in pixels>

Left=<Location in pixels>

Width=<in pixels>

Height=<in pixels>

CopyActive

NewFloatingViewport

Allows a Rhino viewport to be located outside the bounds of the main Rhino application window.

This allows floating a viewport and dragging it on to another monitor.

The ToggleFloatingViewport command changes the floating viewport back into the normal Rhino viewport located inside the Rhino application window.

Floating viewport settings are not saved in the model from one editing session to the next. Closing the model will reset all viewports back to normal Rhino viewports.

Options

View projection

Sets the projection and view for the viewport.

Perspective

Top

Bottom

Left

Right

Front

Back

ToggleFloatingViewport

Toggles the Rhino viewport type between a normal viewport docked and a floating viewport.

Floating viewports can be located outside the bounds of the main Rhino application window.

This command can be used on model viewports and on Layout viewports.

When used on a layout viewport, all layout viewports in the model use the floating viewport window.

Floating viewports work best with multiple monitors.

Floating viewport settings are not saved in the model from one editing session to the next. Closing the model will reset all viewports back to normal Rhino viewports.

ViewportTabs

Displays a tab control UI along the viewport edge.

This is useful for managing multiple-page layout style viewports along with standard modeling viewports.

A tab for each viewport or page layout viewport displays.

Double click on a tab to rename a viewport.

Right click a tab to display a context menu for managing viewports.

Options

Show/Hide/Toggle

Shows, hides, or toggles the viewport tab visibility.

Align

Sets the location of the viewport tabs relative to the Rhino window.

Bottom

Top

Left

Right

ModelTabs

Separate

Displays one tab for each model viewport.

Combined

Combines all model tabs into one tab. This is useful when working on layout viewports.

Context menu options

Insert

New Viewport

New Layout

New Detail

Layout viewports only.

Delete

Rename

Move or Copy

Layout viewports only. Changes the page order or copies the page.

Before page

Moves the layout page in front of the specified page.

Move to end

Moves the layout page to the end of the layout pages.

Create a copy

Copies the layout page.

Combined Model Tab

Tab Orientation

Hide Tabs

Layout Properties

Print

SplitViewportHorizontal

Divides a viewport horizontally into two viewports.

SplitViewportVertical

Divides a viewport vertically into two viewports.

CloseViewport

Closes the active viewport.

MaxViewport

Maximizes the active viewport inside the Rhino application window.

SetMaximizedViewport

Maximizes a specified named viewport inside the Rhino application window.

Steps:

• Type the name of the viewport to maximize.

• - or -

• Right-click the viewport title bar and click Maximize.

• - or -

• Double-click the viewport title bar.

• Note: This command works best when applied to a toolbar button or alias. It is tedious to type this long command and then type a viewport name.

BringViewportToTop

Brings a specified named viewport to the front of all other viewports.

Steps:

• Type the name of the viewport to bring to the top.

• Note: In most cases, you can bring a viewport to the top by clicking in the viewport.

PushViewportToBack

Sends a specified named viewport behind all other viewports.

Steps:

• Type the name of the viewport.

This is useful when you have rearranged your viewports so that they overlap each other.

This command together with the BringViewportToTop command let you create buttons that manage floating views. Both commands ask for the viewport name.

These commands let you have floating render viewports that are exactly the same size as the renderings and can be easily managed by some button scripts.

NextViewportToTop

Displays the next viewport in front of all other viewports.

ReadViewportsFromFile

Sets the viewport layout in the current model to match the layout in another Rhino model.

Steps:

• Select the file to read viewports from.

• The viewport layout and views are changed to match the selected Rhino file.