3D Printing Rhino Commands

Creating Solid Geometry

Box: Creates a rectangular box from specified dimensions.

Sphere: Creates a spherical solid.

Ellipsoid: Creates an ellipsoidal solid with independently defined axes.

Cone: Creates a cone from a base and height. Use TruncatedCone to create a cone with a flat top.

Pyramid: Creates a pyramidal solid with a specified number of sides.

Cylinder: Creates a cylindrical solid from a base and height.

Tube: Creates a hollow cylindrical solid with inner and outer radii.

ExtrudeSrf: Extrudes a surface in a specified direction to create a surface or solid.


Editing Solid Geometry

BooleanUnion: Combines overlapping solids into a single solid.

BooleanDifference: Subtracts one or more solids from another solid.

BooleanIntersection: Creates a solid from the volume shared by overlapping solids.

BooleanSplit: Splits overlapping solids while preserving the resulting pieces.

MakeHole: Projects selected closed curves to a surface or polysurface to define hole shapes.

RoundHole: Creates circular holes in surfaces or polysurfaces.

MoveFace: Moves a polysurface face.

FilletEdge: Rounds selected polysurface edges with a specified radius.

ChamferEdge: Creates a beveled surface along selected polysurface edges.

Cap: Fills planar holes in objects with planar faces.

CreateSolid: Creates a closed solid from surfaces or polysurfaces that completely enclose a volume.


Advanced Polysurface Repair (NURBS)

ShowEdges: Highlights surface and polysurface edges to help identify open, naked, or non-manifold edges.

PlanarSrf: Creates a planar surface from a set of planar curves that define the surface edges.

EdgeSrf: Creates a surface from two, three, or four selected curves.

Loft: Fits a surface through selected profile curves that define the surface shape.

Sweep1: Fits a surface through a series of profile curves that define the surface cross-sections and one curve that defines a surface edge.

Sweep2: Fits a surface through a series of profile curves that define the surface shape and two curves that define the surface edges.

Patch: Fits a surface through selected curves, meshes, point objects, and point clouds.

ExtendSrf: Moves a surface edge to lengthen a surface.

UnjoinEdge: Separates selected joined polysurface edges.

Explode: Breaks composite geometry into its individual components.

Trim: Cuts and deletes selected portions of an object at the intersection with another object.

Move: Relocates objects from one point to another.

Join: Combines adjacent curves, surfaces, or meshes into a single object.


Advanced Mesh Repair

MeshRepair: Opens a collection of tools for identifying and repairing common mesh problems.

FillMeshHole: Fills a selected hole in a mesh.

FillMeshHoles: Fills all holes in a polygon mesh object with triangular faces.

Fill: Creates mesh faces from mesh boundary edges.

MatchMeshEdge: Moves face edges of an open mesh to meet adjacent face edges.

ExtractNonManifoldMeshEdges: Extracts faces associated with non-manifold mesh edges for inspection or repair.

MeshBooleanUnion: Combines overlapping meshes into a single mesh.

MeshBooleanDifference: Subtracts one mesh from another.

MeshBooleanSplit: Splits intersecting meshes while preserving the resulting pieces.

MeshBooleanIntersection: Creates a mesh from the volume shared by intersecting meshes.