Outliner

Outliner brings together the design’s global settings and its RhinoArtisan elements. Use it to set metals and ring size, select or hide parts of the piece, reopen an element’s editor and refresh geometry after changes.

Open Outliner from the Panels toolbar, or run ArtisanOutliner. Keep it beside the Artisan panel: Outliner helps you find an element; the Artisan panel shows its editing controls.

Design settings

The upper part of the panel describes the whole piece. The available controls depend on the design.

Setting	What it controls
Mode	Switch between Rendering and Manufacturing. Elements that support these modes use the corresponding construction settings.
Design type and style	Identify the kind of piece and its subtype. The available styles follow the selected design type.
Diamond type	Specify natural or lab-grown diamonds.
Melee quality	Set the quality grade of the small accent diamonds.
Finger size	Change the size and sizing system for a ring design that contains Artisan ring-size data. Supported ring elements update to the chosen size.
Metals	Choose up to three metals for the document’s Metal layers.

If a ring imported from another application has no Artisan ring-size data, start with a Ring Curve.

Metals and layers

Use the add button beside the first metal to add another metal, up to three. Additional metals have a remove button.

Metals in Outliner	Layer assignment
One	The same metal is used for Metal 01, Metal 02 and Metal 03.
Two	The first is used for Metal 01; the second for Metal 02 and Metal 03.
Three	Each metal is used for its matching layer, in order.

Use Layers to assign objects to those layers. Use Breakdown Details for the piece’s cost breakdown.

Work with elements

The lower part lists recognised Artisan elements. Depending on the element, a row can represent one object or a group. Gem rows include their count and total carat weight.

Action	How to use it
Select or deselect	Click the body of a row. Selection in the viewport is reflected in Outliner.
Edit	Click the pencil or the coloured strip at the left of a row to open the editor for a supported element.
Hide or show	Click the eye. Linked children are included, so a setting’s associated parts follow its visibility.
Rename	Right-click a non-gem row and choose Rename.
Regenerate	Use the row’s refresh button or Regenerate in its context menu, where available.
Select gems by size	Use the gem row’s selection button, or right-click and choose Select by size. Pick a shape and size to select that group.

With a row focused, Space toggles its selection and Enter opens its editor. For more gemstone selection options, see Select Gems.

Some element types do not yet have an editor in Mac Outliner. If an editor is unavailable, the panel tells you so.

Refresh the design

An orange-tinted row indicates that its element needs regeneration. This can happen when a source gem or curve changes and a linked element depends on it.

Use the row’s refresh action to update that element, or Refresh in the header to update supported elements across the document. The list also updates as objects are added, removed or selected.

Header actions

Button	What it does on Mac
Apply Style	Opens the selected element’s editor in preset-selection mode where supported. Classic Shank supports this choice; other supported types may open their normal editor.
Weight	Shows metal and wax weight estimates and gem carat totals, and copies the summary to the clipboard.
Edit	Opens the editor for the supported selected elements.
Refresh	Regenerates supported Artisan elements and updates the panel.

For a typical edit, select an element in Outliner, click its pencil, change its parameters in the Artisan panel and confirm. Then refresh linked elements if they are marked as needing an update.

ArtisanGemSelector is a compatibility command that also opens Outliner on Mac. The separate Select Gems panel opens with ArtisanSelectGems.