Rhino C++ SDK Knowledge Base

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Summary: A collection of development articles and code samples related to the Rhino C++ SDK.

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Add a Cone Surface to Rhino	2010/08/27	Dale Fugier
Add a Custom Menu to Rhino's Menu	2010/01/12
Add a Cylinder to Rhino	2010/01/12
Add a Spherical Surface to Rhino	2010/01/12
Add Online Help to your Plug-in	2009/10/30
Add to Rhino's File Search Path	2012/02/27	Dale Fugier
Adding Arrowheads to Curves	2007/10/11
Adding Background Bitmaps to Viewports	2007/05/23
Adding Clipping Plane Objects	2008/09/08
Adding command line options	2009/06/04
Adding Curve Objects	2007/11/07
Adding Objects to a Group	2010/01/12
Adding Plug-in RhinoScript to Monkey	2010/01/12
Adding RhinoScript support to Rhino Plug-ins	2007/11/09
Adding User Strings to Objects	2007/03/14
Adjusting Clipping Planes from a Conduit	2007/11/05
Adjusting Surface Isocurve Density	2009/03/17
Applying Non-Uniform Transformations to Objects	2009/09/22
Archiving Curves to Disk	2010/08/03	Dale Fugier
Barycentric coordinates of a Quad	2010/08/16	Dale Fugier
Block Definition Geometry	2010/01/12
Brep Data Structure	2010/01/12
Calculate angle between two vectors	2008/12/01
Calculate Curve Intersections	2010/01/12
Calculate the angle between two points.	2008/12/02
Calculating partial lengths of curves	2010/09/28	Dale Fugier
Calculating the Volume Centroid of Solid Objects	2007/10/15
Calculating the Volumes of Mesh Objects	2007/11/13
Calculating the Volumes of Solid Objects	2008/09/12
Canceling Long Processes with the ESC Key	2008/12/02
Changing Construction Plane Modes	2011/08/16	Dale Fugier
Changing Display Precision	2007/05/11
Command Prompt Window Moves when Setting Language	2007/10/23
Comparing Planar Surfaces and Planes	2007/08/31
Computing Radius of Curvature	2007/09/07
Convert an Arc Curve to a NURBS Curve	2006/12/12
Crash Dump Analysis	2008/03/20
Create a Bounding Polyline of a Mesh Object	2007/11/08
Create a control points curve through a polyline	2012/02/27	Dale Fugier
Create a NURBS Circle	2008/08/06
Create a NURBS Curve from Control Points	2008/10/19
Create a NURBS Surface	2010/08/24	Dale Fugier
Create a Skin using the Rhino C++ SDK	2008/04/11
Create a Surface From Control Points	2008/08/18
Create Principal Curvature Curves	2009/11/04
Creating a Leader	2010/01/12
Creating Blocks	2007/07/19
Creating New Views	2009/06/23
Creating NURBS Cage Objects	2008/10/20
Creating NURBS Surfaces	2008/12/08
Creating Points from Text Entities	2008/09/18
Creating Sublayers	2008/04/29
Creating Sublayers	2010/04/26	Dale Fugier
Curve Evaluation	2008/09/22
Custom Picking of Grip Objects	2010/11/15	Dale Fugier
Debugging with Rhino4_d.exe	2010/03/29	Dale Fugier
Detecting Custom Texture Mapping	2007/10/17
Determine Curve Object Types	2009/10/23
Determine the Deviation between two Curves	2007/11/06
Determine the Maximum Z Coordinate Value of a Surface	2009/01/20
Determining if a Brep is a Box	2010/01/12
Determining the Active Viewport	2010/05/20	Dale Fugier
Determining the Normal Direction of a Brep Face	2010/01/12
Displaying Toolbars in Rhino 4.0	2007/01/09
Distributing Visual C++ Runtimes	2011/06/01	Dale Fugier
Draft Angle Contouring	2009/10/23
Duplicate the Borders of Surfaces	2007/01/05
Duplicating Objects with Group	2011/10/31	Dale Fugier
Dynamically Drawing Text Strings	2007/11/08
Dynamically Inserting Blocks	2007/07/19
Enabling Orthogonal Mode	2007/10/17
Extract Thumbnail Preview Image	2009/08/10
Extracting Curve Edit Points	2010/01/12
Extracting Isoparametric Curves from Surfaces	2008/04/04
Failed to locate CL.exe error	2013/03/15	Dale Fugier
Fillet Curves	2011/10/17	Dale Fugier
Finding Points on Curves at Arc Length Distances	2008/05/12
Finding Rhino's Installation Folder	2012/10/24	Dale Fugier
Fix MFC version incompatibility problems between VS2005 and VS2010	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
FPU Issues	2009/07/15
Get the point at the current cursor position	2010/03/08	Dale Fugier
Getting Brep Face Vertices	2012/03/22	Dale Fugier
Getting Layer Objects	2010/06/23	Dale Fugier
Getting Script-Added Objects	2011/11/15	Dale Fugier
Ghosting Viewports	2008/12/05
Handling Enter and Escape from Modal Dialogs	2007/08/10
Hatching Boundaries	2009/05/20
Highlighting Objects in a Conduit	2010/05/05	Dale Fugier
How to run a Rhino command from a plug-in command	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Brep Box Rhino	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Custom Menu to Rhino	2005/06/23
How To: Add a Line Curve Object	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Linear Dimension to Rhino	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Mesh Object to Rhino	2010/01/12
How To: Add a New Layer	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Torus to Rhino	2010/01/12
How To: Add a Truncated Cone to Rhino	2010/01/12
How To: Add Text to Rhino	2007/01/04
How To: Boolean Difference	2010/01/12
How To: Clear Rhino's Undo and Redo Lists	2006/01/12
How To: Copy a CRhinoObject Object	2007/01/05
How To: Create a Custom CRhinoGetObject Class	2006/01/18
How To: Create a Plane Surface	2007/01/07
How To: Create a Surface from Edge Curves	2007/01/05
How To: Create Contour Curves	2007/01/09
How To: Determine an Object's Layer Name	2007/01/07
How To: Determine Rhino's Language Setting	2005/05/25
How To: Display a Toolbar in a Workspace File	2008/02/11
How To: Display MFC Dialogs	2008/04/15
How To: Divide a Curve by Length	2005/10/07
How To: Divide a Curve by Segments	2005/10/07
How To: Dump Debug Information to a Log File	2007/01/08
How To: Dynamically Draw Geometry when Picking Points	2008/03/03
How To: Dynamically Drawing a Polyline	2008/02/29
How To: Extend a Curve Object	2007/01/07
How To: Extend a Surface	2007/01/07
How To: Find the Parameter of a Curve at a Point	2005/10/07
How To: Get an Object's UUID	2005/08/16
How To: Get and Set the Active View	2008/11/25
How To: Interactively Pick an Angle	2007/01/07
How To: Iterate through Rhino's Geometry Table.	2008/03/13
How To: Loft Surfaces using RhinoSdkLoftSurface	2010/01/12
How To: Maximize a View	2007/01/07
How To: Mesh Objects using RhinoMeshObjects	2008/01/09
How To: Modify a Light's Color	2008/11/05
How To: Modify an Object's Color	2007/01/08
How To: Modify an Object's Name	2009/01/16
How To: Modify the Weight of a Grip Object	2007/01/08
How To: Move a Construction Plane	2007/01/05
How To: Move Objects to the Current Layer	2007/01/05
How To: Pick Point Objects	2008/03/13
How To: Pre-Pick and Post-Pick Objects	2008/03/13
How To: Pull a Curve to a Surface	2005/12/12
How To: Rename a Layer	2007/01/07
How To: Replace Rhino's Color Picking Dialog	2007/01/07
How To: Retrieve the Unit System of the Active Document	2007/01/07
How To: Select All Objects on a Layer.	2007/01/08
How To: Select Objects	2007/02/07
How To: Set a CPlane to a View	2005/07/28
How To: Set a View's Construction Plane	2007/01/07
How To: Show All Hidden Objects	2007/01/07
How To: Sweeping Surfaces using RhinoSweep1	2009/01/28
How To: Sweeping Surfaces using RhinoSweep2	2009/02/04
How To: Synchronize a Layer's Rendering Color	2008/08/07
How To: Synchronize an Object's Rendering Color	2007/01/08
How To: Test if an Object is a Circle	2010/01/12
How To: Visual Studio IntelliSense	2008/02/25
Info: Attaching User Data to Brep Components	2010/01/12
Info: Creating Your First Plug-in	2007/11/17
Info: Defining New Plug-in Commands	2005/06/23
Info: Finding and fixing memory leaks	2010/01/12
Info: Modeless Dialog Box in Plug-In Does Not Process TAB Key	2007/12/20
Info: Plug-in Loading	2007/12/18
Info: Rhino 4.0 plug-in user data	2010/01/12
Info: Rhino 4.0 Plug-ins & Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1	2007/01/10
Info: Rhino 4.0 saving plug-in user data in V3 files.	2010/01/12
Info: User Data Options in Rhino 4.0	2007/03/14
Info: Using the sizeof operator with TCHAR and wchar_t	2005/09/21
Intersecting Curves with Meshes	2008/10/06
Intersecting Line Curves	2010/01/12
Intersecting Meshes	2008/11/06
Light Attenuation	2009/12/07
Loading Plug-ins at Startup	2010/01/12
Loading Wizard-Generated Plug-ins	2007/05/07
Lofting Surfaces that Maintain Tangency	2007/05/23
Making a Plug-in That Expires	2010/07/21	Dale Fugier
Making your C++ Plug-in compatible with the Rhino Installer Engine	2010/02/10	Brian Gillespie
Mesh Boolean Difference	2008/01/07
Mesh Boolean Intersection	2011/09/13	Dale Fugier
Mesh Types	2009/06/23
Migrate Rhino 4.0 Plug-ins to Rhino 5.0	2009/12/04
Migrating Rhino 5.0 Plug-ins from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2010	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
Migrating to Visual Studio 2010	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
Modifying Advanced Display Settings	2010/01/12
Moving Curve and Surface Grips	2009/11/03
Moving Mesh Vertices	2008/11/10
Object Properties Page Icons	2012/01/04	Dale Fugier
Obtaining the Insertion Point of a Block	2009/03/19
Offsetting a Surface	2011/04/19	Dale Fugier
Offsetting Curves on Surfaces	2008/10/07
ON_SimpleArray Questions	2009/06/23
Open a 3DM file	2013/05/10	Dale Fugier
Orienting Objects on a Surface	2007/07/20
Picking Brep Components	2010/11/17	Dale Fugier
Picking Objects without CRhinoGetObject	2009/06/05
Picking Surface Point	2010/05/05	Dale Fugier
Picking Text Dots with CRhinoGetObject	2007/07/25
Plug-in Search Order	2007/12/18
Prepare for Public Release - March 29, 2011	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
Print a Layer's Full Path	2010/04/14	Dale Fugier
Print Instance Definition Names	2012/05/21	Dale Fugier
Print Instance Definition Tree	2012/05/22	Dale Fugier
Problem Calculating the Lengths of NURBS Curves	2008/05/14
Project Curves onto Breps	2008/01/24
Projecting Points to Breps	2009/06/22
Reading Notes from a 3DM file	2011/09/23	Dale Fugier
Reading/Writing plug-in user data to a Rhino .3dm file	2008/03/05
Registering Plug-ins for Rhino 4	2013/03/12	Brian Gillespie
Registering Plug-ins for Rhino 5	2010/01/12
Reparameterize a Curve	2007/01/07
Replacing a Hatch Object's Pattern	2008/04/29
Retrieving Rhino Data from the Clipboard	2005/11/07
Rhino 5 Plug-in Development	2012/11/27	Dale Fugier
Rhino C++ Plug-in SDK FAQ	2009/12/04
Rhino Object Types	2009/11/30
Rhino Plug-in Build Configurations	2009/10/12
Rhino SDK Textures and Mappings	2007/01/09
Rotate Objects Around Center	2010/01/14
Saving Persistent Plug-in Settings	2009/10/09
Screen Capture a Viewport	2009/07/06
Screen Capture All Viewports	2008/11/05
Setting a Viewport's Title	2008/09/18
Setting Rhino's Command Prompt Text	2008/12/16
Setup a Cage Edit	2010/06/18	Dale Fugier
Shading Individual Objects	2007/05/11
Shading Viewports	2008/10/03
Sharing User Data Between Plug-ins	2008/10/30
Show or Hide Rhino's Status Bar	2007/11/15
Showing Objects Transforming Dynamically	2008/10/01
Split a Brep	2007/04/16
Splitting a Curve into Multiple Curve Segments	2008/05/02
Splitting Brep Edges	2008/11/05
Subscribing to the Developer Support Newsgroup	2010/03/04	Dale Fugier
Supporting Custom Undo Events in Rhino 4.0	2007/01/05
Test your Plug-in	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
Testing for Curves on Surfaces	2008/11/18
The Rhino Installer Engine (Beta)	2010/02/11	Brian Gillespie
Tracking Camera changes with a Conduit	2012/03/30	Dale Fugier
Transform Screen Coordinates to World Coordinates	2007/12/10
Transform World Coordinates to Screen Coordinates	2010/06/22	Dale Fugier
Transforming Brep Objects	2007/01/08
Triangulating Polygons	2007/08/17
Two View Layout	2010/03/11	Dale Fugier
Type Casting SDK Objects	2010/07/06	Dale Fugier
Understanding Rhino Plug-in Compatibility	2010/02/12	Brian Gillespie
Unifying Mesh Normals	2010/03/18	Dale Fugier
Using ActiveX Controls in Plug-ins	2010/03/19	Dale Fugier
Using CRhinoGetFileDialog to Preview Bitmaps	2008/02/06
What is a Rhino Plug-in?	2010/01/12
Window Selecting Objects	2007/10/19
Writing code that will work with 32 and 64 bit compilers	2011/02/28	Brian Gillespie
Writing to a text file	2010/03/11	Dale Fugier
Zooming to the extends of 3-D points	2008/10/08

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