Rhino - Interface

An interface is a way to communicate with a software. The most high-level and user-friendly interface in CAD is a graphical one where you can click, or type commands.

As it is often the case in Rhino there are multiple ways to do execute a command. Consider the following example of adding a simple line to the workspace.

Add a line via the menu

Add a line via the toolbar

Add a line via the terminal

Rhino has a terminal, it is a text-based interface to the computer or a software in the case of Rhino*. You can type commands, execute programs, open files. You can basically doing everything your are doing by clicking on icons and menu items in Rhino.

Terminal in Windows	Terminal in Rhino
Here’s an example of the windows terminal to interact with the machine	And here’s an example of the Rhino terminal to interact with the software

A terminal is composed by basically two parts: the input are where you type commands, and the output logs where you can see the messages from Rhino.

By typing underscore (_) before your command you can type it in English no matter in which language are you using Rhino.