Time Tracker

Time Tracker answers a question every workshop eventually asks: how long did this design actually take? It runs silently in the background from the moment RhinoArtisan loads, counting the time you spend on each saved Rhino file — and shows the totals in a panel, ready to export.

Open the panel with ArtisanTimeTracker, or from the Time Tracker button in the ribbon’s File tab.

How the tracking works

There is nothing to start or stop. Time accrues automatically for the active document, per file and per day, and only while you are really working:

• Only saved documents count — an untitled, never-saved file is not tracked.
• Time only accrues while Rhino is the foreground application; switching to your browser or email stops the clock.
• If you step away, tracking pauses after a few minutes without keyboard or mouse input (5 minutes by default), and a sleeping machine cannot dump hours into the log.

The behavior is configured in Rhino Options → Artisan → Time Tracking: a checkbox to turn automatic tracking on or off, and the inactivity pause in minutes (1–120).

The report panel

The panel lists your files with the total time and the number of days each one was worked on, sorted by time. A range selector filters the report: All time, Today, This week, or This month, with the filtered total at the bottom.

Two buttons complete it:

• Export to CSV — saves the report as a spreadsheet-ready file with the project, time, decimal hours, and days per row.
• Reset tracked time — clears the whole log, after a confirmation. The same is available as the ArtisanTimeTrackingReset command.

Where the data lives

The log is a local JSON file in your Artisan user folder (TimeTracking\time_log.json). Nothing is ever written into the .3dm files themselves, and nothing leaves your machine.