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RhinoArtisan for Mac is in development, and so is this documentation. Any part of it may be inaccurate or change as the product evolves.

Windows page

This page was written for RhinoArtisan 7 for Windows and has not been reviewed for Mac yet. Screenshots and some details may differ in Rhino for Mac.

Automation

Flow Studio AI

Flow Studio turns a sentence into an automation. Describe what you want done in your document — “add a 0.5 mm bezel around every selected gem”, “list the stones by size and price them” — and it writes a Python script for exactly that, shows it to you, and runs it when you click Apply. Scripts that earn their keep get saved to your Flow library and become one-click tools.

Open it with ArtisanFlowStudio, or from Flow Studio in the ribbon’s File tab.

Setting up

Flow Studio needs two things: a network connection, and an OpenRouter API key entered in Options → Artisan → Integrations — see Accounts and API keys. The model it uses is the Flow Studio model on the same page; code is where a strong model pays off most, see Choosing models. Generation happens through your own OpenRouter account — running an already-saved flow needs neither the key nor the network.

The conversation

Every message you type is a request for a script — this is not a general chat. Before asking, Flow Studio reads your document’s context: the units, what is selected, and the gems in the selection with their shapes, materials, and sizes — so “the selected stones” means exactly that.

The reply is a proposal: “I prepared this script. Review it and click Apply to run it.” The </> toggle shows the actual code; Apply runs it, Cancel discards it. After the run you get a ✓ or ✗ with the result, and an OUTPUT card with anything the script printed.

Two buttons appear on the result:

  • 🔧 Fix it — when the script failed, one click sends the error back and a corrected version comes as a new proposal.
  • 💾 Save to Library — when it succeeded, give it a name, an optional description and tags, and it lands in the Flow panel, ready to run again on any future document.

Everything a script changes in the document is wrapped in a single transaction, so one Undo reverts the whole run.

Flow Studio and Flow

Flow Studio is where flows are born — the conversation, the review, the first run. Flow is where they live: the library that lists, organizes, and re-runs them without touching the AI again. Both run scripts through the same engine, so a flow behaves identically in either panel.