How do i add thickness to a polyline in Rhinoceros 3D

Patel Deepak

21 Apr, 2015 07:03 PM

hi Mark Goody,
following picture can guide you to add thickness to any curves
by adding few simple steps while modelling.

1. Step 1:

   Draw curves and type ( in command Bar ) or click on "options" icon
   

   

2. Step 2:

   In rhino options click " Appearance "
   

   

3. Step 3:

   As soon as you click " Appearance " a drop down pop up will open
   as " Advance setting "
   

   

4. Step 4:

   Click in the " Advance setting " button , you will see " Advance Display setting "and then click on any viewport names ,
   in this tutorial I have used wireframe .
   

   

5. Step 5:

   At the bottom of the pop out menu ( Rhino options ) you will find a copy button,
   this button will make a duplicate copy of the selected viewport. Thus as soon as you hit the button ..
   

   

6. Step 6:

   immediately a " Display mode options " window will open, that says " copy of wireframe"
   

   

7. Step 7:

   Now under " copy of wireframe" we can see " -objects " which is further
   having settings for various objects namely ; points, curves, surfaces and meshes . As we need to add width thickness on the curves ( polylines, ect)
   click on curves button/ tab , upon that you will see " Curve width pixels "

   

8. Step 8:

   edit that column as per your requirement ( I have edited it to 5 pixels ).
   than press/ click " ok "
   ( the settings gets saved)
   

   

9. Step 9:

   Now select the curve you want to add thickness to ( I have selected a circle )
   

   

10. Step 10:

    now in command bar type ( keep curve selected )
    " setobjectdisplaymode "
    and press enter key
    

    

11. Step 11:

    Choose attribute for selected object
    ( the selected curves will show the changes only in the active view , i.e in the view in which it is displayed )
    click on " mode "
    or type " M " in key board and press the space key

    

12. Step 12:

    ON clicking that you will see all the viewports including " copy of wireframe " ( which we recently created. Choose " copy of wireframe "
    

    

13. Step 13:

    As soon as you click on the " copy of wireframe "
    the command gets over and you find that the curve which is selected have a
    different width thickness than other curves. This change in display can be
    reversed by same method
    ( just click on " user view " in choosing attributes )
    

    

14. Step 14:

    Enlarge the veiwport and inspect, this will not change its apperence in other viewports , you will have repeat same steps in different veiwports in order to see the effect
    

    

15. Step 15:

    Now if you want to see the similar kind of effect in you prints also than he
    under object properties
    

    

16. Step 16:

    There is print width option in the bottom of the op out menu.
    by default its layers , so click on that and..
    

    

17. Step 17:

    edit the value
    

    

18. Step 18:

    Than go to print command
    

    

19. Step 19:

    As soon as you execute the command you can see the
    curve in different width in the print preview.
    

    

20. Step 20:

    I hope this is helpful :)
    

    

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