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RhinoScript is a scripting tool based on Microsoft's VBScript language. With RhinoScript, you can quickly add functionality to Rhino, or automate repetitive tasks.

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Knowledge Base

A Quadratic Solver in Script	2007/11/28
Accessing Databases from RhinoScript	2010/01/12
Adding Curvature Circles	2010/01/12
Adding Points at Curve Endpoints	2010/01/12
Arc Point Distribution	2010/01/12
Array Dimensions and Upper Bounds	2007/10/16
Array Utilities	2010/01/12
Arraying Points on a Surface	2010/01/12
Assign Material To Object	2012/04/19	John Morse
Auto Label Objects with Script	2010/01/12
Automating Curve Properties to Excel From RhinoScript	2007/10/23
Automating Excel From RhinoScript	2006/01/09
Automating Rhino	2010/01/12
Batch Convert AutoCAD files to 3DM	2010/01/12
Batch Render	2010/01/12
Batch Save Small	2010/01/12
Block Utilities	2010/01/12
ByRef vs ByVal	2012/04/16	Dale Fugier
Calculate the angle between two vectors	2010/01/12
Calculating a Perpendicular Vector	2010/01/12
Calculating Hot/Cold Color Values	2010/01/12
Calculating Mesh Volume Centroid	2009/07/15
Calculating Permutations	2011/03/09	Dale Fugier
Calculating Perpendicular Vectors	2008/02/20
Calculating the Lengths of Curves	2007/07/13
Calculating the Shortest Line between two Lines	2008/03/10
Cancelling Scripts	2010/01/12
Cannot Use Parentheses When Calling Sub	2010/01/12
Circle packing	2006/11/19
Closest Point on Curve to Axis	2010/01/12
Convert a Block to a Group	2010/03/11	Dale Fugier
Convert Colors to Grayscales	2010/05/12	Dale Fugier
Converting Data from Text Files	2008/02/07
Converting GUIDs to Strings	2010/01/12
Converting Text to Geometry	2010/01/12
Copy/Paste To Excel	2009/08/14
Count Block Instances	2006/05/09
Count Objects	2008/04/30
Create a Dodecahedron	2012/03/05	Dale Fugier
Create a RhinoScript Plug-in	2012/04/25	Dale Fugier
Create an Ellipsoid Parametrically	2012/03/05	Dale Fugier
Create an Icosahedron	2009/09/18
Create Box Frames	2010/01/12
Create Fibonacci Spirals	2009/09/29
Create Square Pipes with RhinoScript	2008/12/28
Creating Archimedean Spirals	2010/01/12
Creating Isometric Views	2010/01/12
Creating Polar Arrays	2010/01/12
Curve Osculating Planes	2007/09/10
Demand Loading and Running Scripts	2010/09/17	Dale Fugier
Determine of a Dynamic Array has been Dimensioned	2006/10/26
Determining RhinoScript Versions	2009/07/27
Determining Selected Groups	2007/07/13
Display the Flamingo nXt legacy plant browser	2012/04/19	John Morse
Disposing of Variables	2010/04/15	Dale Fugier
Distance on a Curve from a Point	2007/11/26
Divide a curve into a dashed line	2010/10/07	Dale Fugier
Divide a curve using equi-distance points	2010/01/12
Drawing Steel Shapes	2008/09/19
Efficient Loading of Scripts	2010/09/16	Dale Fugier
Error Handling in RhinoScript	2008/05/22
Evaluate the Torsion of a Curve	2007/10/03
Exploding Block Instances	2005/10/13
Exploding Blocks	2009/09/22
Exploding Meshes	2007/07/13
Export Curve Control Points	2005/07/26
Export Layer Objects	2009/08/31
Exporting Block Counts to Excel	2010/05/26	Dale Fugier
Exporting Meshes to Geomview	2010/01/12
Exporting Point Coordinates to Excel	2006/01/09
Extracting Interpolated Curve Construction Points	2010/01/12
Extracting Isocurve Intersection Points	2008/11/12
Extracting Thumbnail Preview Images	2010/01/12
Failed to Create VBScript Error	2010/05/13	Dale Fugier
Find Closest Curve to Test Point	2007/03/30
Fun with Fibonacci Numbers	2010/01/12
Generate Random Numbers	2009/12/09
Generating Platonic and Archimedean Solids	2006/04/12
Get Flamingo nXt material assignment	2012/04/19	John Morse
Get Mapping Information From Object	2012/04/19	John Morse
Get Material List	2012/04/19	John Morse
Get Plant Points	2012/04/19	John Morse
How to Create a GUID	2012/10/02	Dale Fugier
How To Use GetLocale() and SetLocale() in VBScript	2010/01/12
How To: Convert Annotation Dots to Text	2010/01/12
How To: Isolate the Layers of Selected Objects	2005/12/15
How To: Move Curve Grips	2005/10/17
How To: Obtain the Physical Address of a Computer	2007/06/19
How To: Retrieve RGB Color Intensities in VBScript	2010/01/12
How To: Select Text Objects	2005/10/17
HtmlBox Styling	2009/11/30
Import Flamingo nXt Material	2012/04/19	John Morse
Importing Airfoil Shapes	2010/01/12
Importing an Interpolated Curve	2010/01/12
Importing Points from Text Files	2010/01/12
Importing Text from a File	2007/08/15
Including Script Files	2011/02/25	Dale Fugier
Joining the Dots	2007/07/11
Key-Value pair QuickSort algorithm	2010/01/12
Knot Multiplicity	2010/03/24	Dale Fugier
Linear Regression	2009/08/13
Liquid drop simulation	2008/11/04
List AutoCAD Export Schemes	2010/07/19	Steve Baer
List IGES Export Schemes	2010/07/19	Steve Baer
Listing the Knot Vector of a NURBS Curve	2007/03/08
Loading Toolbars	2008/02/13
Marking Center Points of Closed Curves	2007/07/13
Marking Points on a Line	2010/03/02	Dale Fugier
Matching Object Attributes	2012/03/05	Dale Fugier
Matching Text Properties	2009/07/17
Modify an existing Flamingo nXt plant	2012/04/19	John Morse
Modifying Object Colors	2009/02/12
More on Sorting Key-Value Pairs	2007/09/20
Morphing Example in RhinoScript	2007/10/31
Move Surface Grips using RhinoScript	2006/01/04
Multidimensional Arrays	2008/06/05
Multiple Pipe Script	2008/10/09
Nothing vs Empty vs Null	2013/05/13	Dale Fugier
Offsetting Curves Inside or Outside	2009/04/03
Offsetting Meshes	2010/03/10	Dale Fugier
Opening 3DM Files	2010/01/12
Optional Arguments to VBScript Subroutines and Functions	2008/05/30
Padding numbers with leading zeros	2010/11/04	Dale Fugier
Passing Parameters ByRef & ByVal	2012/04/16	Dale Fugier
Positioning Objects on a Surface	2010/01/12
Previewing RhinoScript Files	2012/10/26	Dale Fugier
Print Surface Control Points	2005/08/23
Query plant object	2012/04/19	John Morse
Query plant wire-frame	2012/04/19	John Morse
Random Surface Points	2009/12/09
Reading Excel Files	2009/03/13
Rendering Named Views	2007/05/09
Replacing Points with Blocks	2007/11/02
Reversing Arrays	2008/05/28
Revolving Profile Curves	2008/09/30
RhinoScript 101	2010/01/12
RhinoScript and the FileSystemObject	2010/01/12
Rotate Plane Parallel to World	2008/09/24
Rotating an Object Around a Point	2005/10/27
Rounding Numbers	2009/02/05
Rounding Numbers by an Increment	2007/07/13
Save and Restore Layer States	2005/08/25
Saving File Summary Information	2008/04/24
Saving Files	2010/12/01	Dale Fugier
Saving Plug-in Information to a Text File	2008/05/02
Saving Video Card Information to a Text File	2008/05/02
Scale Text by Dimension Scale	2007/07/26
Scripting the CutPlane Command	2007/11/02
Scripting the FlowAlongSrf Command	2010/01/12
Scripting the Split Command	2007/11/02
Scripting with Persistent Settings	2005/08/16
Select Curves of a Specified Degree	2005/10/17
Select Linear and Non-linear Curves	2007/07/13
Select Named Objects from a List	2006/04/25
Select Points with a Specified Z Coordinate	2006/08/23
Select Text by Height	2009/07/08
Selecting Dimensions by Style	2007/07/03
Selecting Multiple Files	2008/10/17
Selecting Objects by Linetype	2010/01/12
Selecting Planar Meshes	2007/07/03
Set Flamingo nXt Object Mapping Properties	2012/04/19	John Morse
Set Material Colors from Object Colors	2005/12/12
Setting Camera Angle	2010/01/12
Setting Hierarchical Layer Names	2007/04/13
Setting the Length of a Curve	2007/07/27
Simple Command Line Calculator	2007/11/01
Skipping current iteration of a VBScript For Loop	2013/05/17	Dale Fugier
Sorting VBScript Arrays with .NET	2007/09/20
Splitting a File Path String	2005/10/17
Splitting Curves into Multiple Segments	2007/07/13
Straightening Circles	2008/09/04
Subscribing to the Developer Support Newsgroup	2010/03/04	Dale Fugier
Tag object as plant	2012/04/19	John Morse
Testing for Empty Arrays	2008/05/21
The Dictionary Object	2011/11/11	Dale Fugier
The Err Object	2011/11/11	Dale Fugier
The RegExp Object	2011/11/11	Dale Fugier
Trimming Curves	2007/10/30
Trimming Curves with a Circle	2010/01/12
Turn Sun On and Set Longitude and Latitude	2013/05/14	John Morse
Un-tag an object as a Flamingo nXt Plant	2012/04/19	John Morse
Uncommon Numeric Conversions	2008/12/18
Unrolling Surfaces and Polysurfaces	2009/04/01
Utilizing the Dictionary Object	2008/05/22
Variable Hoisting in RhinoScript	2010/01/12
VBScript and JScript Arrays	2010/01/12
VBScript Code Conventions	2010/01/12
VBScript Conditional Statements	2010/01/12
VBScript Constants	2010/01/12
VBScript Data Types	2010/01/12
VBScript Fundamentals	2010/01/12
VBScript is not Logical	2013/05/02	Dale Fugier
VBScript Looping	2010/01/12
VBScript Operators	2010/01/12
VBScript Procedures	2010/01/12
VBScript Statements	2010/01/12
VBScript String Literals	2008/06/04
VBScript Variables	2010/01/12

Monkey for Rhino4

Monkey (Script Editor) for Rhino4	2010/01/12
Monkey Script Compiler	2010/01/12
Monkey Script Compiler License XML format	2010/01/12
Monkey Script Compiler Licensing information	2010/01/12

RhinoScript Samples

VBTestApp - Sample Visual Basic 6.0 project that demonstrates how to automate Rhino 3.0 and RhinoScript.

RhinoFromVBNet - Sample Visual Basic .NET 2005 project that demonstrates how to automate Rhino 4.0 and RhinoScript.

RhinoFromCSharp - Sample C# 2005 project that demonstrates how to automate Rhino 4.0 and RhinoScript.

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