Writing simple Commandscripts assigned to icons will give you a basic understanding of how scripting works because you will become familiar with command names, what they do, and how they interact with each other. This will give you practice writing commandscripts before you go on to tackle larger and more complex projects.
Creating commandscripts on icons lets you customize Rhinoceros with your modeling, editing and display preferences. So you can change your modeling tools and add options to them in Rhinoceros to get your job done quickly and efficiently.
Customizing command "options" that appear at the
Rhinoceros command prompt in the middle of modeling.
Quite a few commands that you use everyday in Rhinoceros have
extra options to them that you have to input from the keyboard
as you model. These are often one letter commands like c, y or
n. For instance if you rotate an object, Rhinoceros also gives
you the option to copy that object and rotate the copied object
instead of the original. After you click the rotate icon you would
do this by typing c at the keyboard. This can seem like it is
easy enough. But if you need to rotate copies all the time and
do it repeatedly this creates extra work. Usually you forget to
type in the c option after many times of doing this and end up
doing a regular rotate that you must cancel or undo. Since Rhinoceros
has many commands with these extra options you can customize or
make icons already with your pre-selected options to avoid fatigue
and mistakes.
*Remember * You need to select the object
you wish to rotate, scale etc. first then click the icon for these
commandscripts to work.