Curator

Curator

Curator is the keeper of the elements you reach for again and again: earring posts and clasps, ornaments and motifs — and anything of your own worth keeping. Every element lives in a folder, shows as a thumbnail, and one click inserts it into the document, ready to position.

The library has two doors, both onto the same content: the docked Curator panel (ArtisanCuratorPanel, from the File tab’s panel list) that stays open while you work, and the full-screen Curator dialog (ArtisanCurator, the Curator button on the Accessories tab) for browsing with bigger thumbnails — that one also zooms to the element after inserting it.

The panel

Five buttons in the toolbar, then a search box, the folder selector, and the thumbnail grid:

• Add a folder — creates a new folder in your library; you are asked for a name (the current document’s name is offered as default).
• Open folder — opens the Curator folder in Windows Explorer. Renaming or deleting folders and elements is done here, with ordinary files.
• Add Curator Collection from File — imports a collection packaged as a .zip, from the online gallery or shared with you.
• Online Curator Gallery — opens the collection page on the RhinoArtisan website in your browser.
• Save on Curator — turns your current selection into a library element.

The search box looks across the whole library at once — element and folder names alike — so “clasp” finds every clasp no matter which folder it sleeps in. Clear it and you are back in the selected folder.

Building your own library

Select the objects you want to keep, pick the destination folder, click Save on Curator, and give the element a name. That is the whole workflow: the element is exported to the library and its thumbnail is generated automatically from the file’s preview. Next week it is one click away, in this document or any other.

Growing it with collections

Additional Curator collections are available in your Dashboard on the RhinoArtisan website — click Online Curator Gallery to browse and download them. They are updated regularly, with new elements and entirely new collections added over time.

A downloaded collection arrives as a .zip: click Add Curator Collection from File, pick the file, and it is installed and listed alongside your own folders. The same route works for collections a colleague shares with you.

Where it lives

The library is a plain folder on disk — %APPDATA%\Artisan\7.0\Curator by default, or wherever your custom folder in Options → Artisan → Folders points. Each element is just a thumbnail next to its 3dm file, which makes the whole library easy to back up, sync, or carry to another machine.