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tools) and all categories are available as unique toolbar panels. The height and width of the toolbars can be adjusted, allowing for more or fewer on-screen buttons per category. The toolbar panels themselves contain all the components that belong to that category. Since there are a potentially large number of these, it only shows the N most recently used items. In order to see the entire collection, you have to click on the bar at the bottom of the Panel: This will pop up the category panel, which provides access to all objects. You can either click on the objects in the popup list, or you can drag directly from the list onto the canvas. Clicking on items in the category panel will place them on the toolbar for easy future reference. Clicking on buttons will not add them to the Canvas! You must drag them onto the Canvas in order to add them:

You can also find components by name, by double-clicking anywhere on the canvas; launching a pop-up search box. Type in the name of the component you are looking for and you will see a list of parameters or components that match your request.

The Window Title Bar: D The Editor Window title bar behaves different from most other dialogs in Microsoft Windows. If the window is not minimized or maximized, double clicking the title bar will fold or unfold the dialog. This is a great way to switch between the plug-in and Rhino because it minimizes the Editor without moving it to the bottom of the screen or behind other windows. Note that if you close the Editor, the Grasshopper geometry previews in the viewports will disappear, but the files won't actually be closed. The next time you run For plugin version 0.5.0099

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