Working with Metrics templates

Metrics allows you that once you have created some parameters for a specific Rhino file, you can use those parameters in other Rhino files, without the need to create them from scratch again. For this go to the Metrics tab and click on Save Template File or type HS_SaveTemplateFile and select the folder where you want to save the template. You will then see a .json file created in that folder with the same name as the Rhino file where the parameters with Metrics have been generated.

Now to load that template into a different Rhino file click on Load Template File or type HS_LoadTemplateFile. Another way of exporting your parameters to another Rhino file is opening the Rhino file from the same session. This works both for new Rhino files as for previously saved Rhino files. However, it will not work for Rhino files that already had parameters created previously.

With Metrics you can also remove all the parameters assigned to the Rhino objects by clicking on Remove Metrics Data or typing HS_RemoveMetricsData. This will erase the parameters from the Rhino geometry but not the parameters created in the Create Parameters panel. If the objects were colored according to a Category Parameter, the colors will remain until they are set again to have the colors of the layers. Once that has been done, it will not be possible to recover the colors of that category parameter. To remove the parameters from the template, just delete them from the Create Parameters panel.