The Properties Panel specifies important information about your Rhino objects.

Layout

• The Properties Panel displays custom information for selected objects.
• Here you can adjust basic information, materials, texture maps, etc.

Object

• The Properties panel Object menu tells you essential information about the selected object.

  • Type - What type of object do you have selected.
  • Layer - What Layer is the object on
  • Display Color - You can specify the unique display color of your selected object. This allows you to override Layer colors to specify colors on an object by object basis.
  • Linetype - What linetype will your curve display with.
  • PrintMode - Rhino has 2 standards in displaying objects. Regular and Print Display.

  <aside> 💡 Printmode allows rhino to display objects with stroke weight, and custom print properites like Adobe Illustrator.

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Render Mesh Setting

• The default display settings in rhino optimize for fast performance.
• You can adjust the quality of the display of objects using the Render Mesh Settings.

<aside> 💡 Render in this case refers to the way rhino displays objects in common Display modes, like Shaded, and Ghosted. Not just Rendered.

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Match

• At the bottom of the Properties Panel is match. Match allows you to use the settings, layer, color, etc of one object for another.
• A dialogue box allows you to specify which properties to match.