Utility

Utility Tools support Rhino-object interoperability and workflow management across the modeling environment. The tools are divided into three categories: Rhino Reference, for linking and managing Rhino geometry by layer or color; List Matching, for aligning and dispatching datasets against a mask list; and Object Attributes, for baking, editing, and extracting geometric and non-geometric attributes.

Rhino Reference

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Ref Layer	Reference Rhino objects by layer. Toggles: Sublayers – include child layers; Remap – renumber output branches to sequential {0},{1},{2},...	L	Input Layer	Layer name to query	Geo	Geometry	Geometry from layers, one branch per layer (branch numbering depends on the Remap toggle)
					Guid	Object IDs	Object IDs from Rhino – feed this into Edit/Extract Object Attributes, not the Geometry output
					LPath	Layer Paths	Full layer path per branch
					LName	Layer Name	Child layer name only, without its parent path
Ref Color	Reference Rhino object by its color	C	Color	Target color to match	Obj	Objects	Objects from matching color
		T	Tolerance	Color matching tolerance	Idx	Color Index	Index of matching color

List Matching

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Match List Geo	Match text tree against a mask list text	Text	Text Tree	Tree of input text	Bool	Boolean Tree	Tree of boolean result
		Mask	Mask List	List of match mask strings	Matched Val	Matched Tree Result	Tree of dispatched items based on match list
		M	Matches List	Tree to dispatch using masking results
Match List Text	Match text tree against a mask list text	Text	Text Tree	Tree of input text	Bool	Boolean Tree	Tree of boolean match mask results
		Mask	Mask List	List of match mask strings	Val	Matched Values	Tree of dispatched items based on match list
		M	Matches List	List to dispatch using masking results

Object Attributes

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Bake Attrs	Bakes GH geometry into the Rhino document with user-text attributes in one step	Geo	Geometry	GH geometry to bake into the Rhino document	ID	Object ID	GUID of each baked object
		K	Keys	Attribute keys	Stat	Status	Operation status message
		V	Values	Attribute values
Extract Attributes	Extracts object attribute key–value pairs from a referenced Rhino object	ID	GUID	Object GUID as string (from Reference by Layer's Object IDs output)	Key	Keys	Attribute keys
					Val	Values	Attribute values
					Ref	Referenced Layer	Object's layer name
Edit Attributes	Edits object attribute key–value pairs on a referenced Rhino object	ID	GUID	Object GUID as string (from Reference by Layer's Object IDs output)	Stat	Status	Operation status message
		K	Keys	Attribute keys
		V	Values	Attribute values