Library

Library

The Libraries panel is the shelf your render content lives on: folders of saved materials (.rmtl), environments (.renv) and textures (.rtex) that exist outside any one model. Build a scene you like once, save its pieces here, and every future project starts dressed.

Using it

• Drag and drop a material, environment or texture from the panel into the model — onto an object, into the Materials panel, even between two Rhino sessions.
• Navigate with back / forward, filter with the search box (by name, with optional regular expressions), and narrow the view to materials, environments or textures with the filter buttons.
• Grid or list view, with a thumbnail size slider at the bottom — slide to 0% for a compact text list.
• Library folders are configured in Options → Render Libraries; the content files themselves live in the Render Content folder and can be copied between machines and Rhino versions.

The panel’s full reference is in the Rhino help.