Outliner

The Outliner panel is responsible for organizing the global parameters of your design and all the elements it’s made of.

Sections

The Outliner consists of three sections: Header, Design and Elements.

Header

It contains four commonly used tools for parametric editing

In addition, this panel has four buttons:

• Apply Style: You can easily copy and paste the parameters of an element for a particular stone to another stone. Select an element as a basket, for instance, click on Apply Style, and then click on another stone. A basket with the same parameters will be applied to that stone. This works with all elements in RhinoArtisan.

• Weight: When clicked on, it opens a window displaying the weight of metals in grams and the carat weight of gems from your design. This data will automatically be stored in your clipboard.

• Edit: You can edit the selected element or elements after clicking this button. To cancel this operation, right-click on your viewport.

• Refresh Design: RhinoArtisan will use this icon to unite stray gems and adapt the design to its new measurements. For example, if you change a shank’s finger size, clicking this button will adjust the design’s element to the new shank size.

Design

You will define traits affecting all your design elements in the design parameters. Changing a global parameter will update all your elements to match the change.

These are all the possible Global Parameters:

• Metal: The colour, purity, and type of metal that will be used to display your design. This parameter affects its weight.

• Display****mode: Choose how you want to see your design, either Rendering it as a finished piece or Manufacturing it to see how it would be after being 3D printed.

• Design type: What kind of jewelry piece is your design, this parameter may be automatically set depending on what elements you add to your design.

• Finger size and scale: This feature is only present in ring designs. It lets you set the shank’s size and switch between multiple international ring size measurement scales. The button Cut by ring size allows you to cut objects that could be inside the ring curve so they would not intersect with the finger, assuring a perfect ring size. On the right side, there is an icon of a ring viewed from the front. This icon allows us to execute the Cut by Ring Size command, which will cut any object within the section of the ring where the finger would go.

Elements

The elements in your designs will be displayed below the Outliner’s Global Parameters. This list of elements allows you to see the components that form your design.

Each element listed has, from left to right, the following features:

• A coloured line that, if pressed, will open the element’s parameters if applicable.
• An icon that represents the type of element it is.
• The name of the element.
• The total number of the same elements present in your design is in parentheses.
• Listed gems on the Outliner display some more icons:
  • The total weight of the same type of gems in carats.
  • A button that expands a detailed report with the following icons:
    • An icon on the right of each gem lets you select the specific gem individually.
    • The lower-right corner of the report has a button that allows you to create the report on your viewport. To place the report, click on the point where you want it to be generated. To cancel this operation, right-click a viewport.
• A pencil shape icon to edit the parameters of the element.An icon
• resembling an eye that, if clicked, hides and shows the element on your viewports.