What Rhino Sync synchronizes
Which parts of a Rhino model Rhino Sync shares with teammates, and which stay local.
When you synchronize, Rhino Sync shares the items below. Items that aren't shared still exist in your local copy, but teammates don't receive your changes to them.
Shared
Points, curves, surfaces, polysurfaces, extrusions, meshes and SubD
Including object attributes, such as layer, colour, material, linetype, groups and user text.
Point clouds and text dots
Annotations and hatch objects
Text, dimensions, leaders and hatches.
Hatch patterns
New patterns are added to teammates' models. Changes to the definition of an existing pattern aren't shared.
Block instances and block definitions
Block definitions are matched by name. Nested blocks are included.
Lights
Layers
Name, colour, material and other properties, including per-detail layer overrides. See the exception below.
Materials and render materials
Including texture mapping on objects.
Dimension styles and linetypes
Matched by name.
Named views and named construction planes
Matched by name.
Layouts and page order
New, renamed, resized and deleted layouts, and the order of the pages. Objects drawn on a layout arrive on the same layout.
Detail views
Camera, projection, scale, lock, display mode and the shape of the detail frame.
Notes
Applied when you reload.
Angle and relative tolerances
Model and layout. Absolute tolerances are shared only when everyone uses the same units.
Clipping planes
Only when Synchronize clipping planes is on. Clipping planes limited to one detail are included. See Settings.
Not shared
Layer visibility, layer lock and expanded state
Personal to each user.
Object visibility and lock state
Hide, Show, Lock and similar commands stay personal.
Units and the model base point
Set them before you start collaborating.
Document user text
Named layer states and named positions
Render settings, environments and sun
Linked blocks
Print settings
Undo history
Cleared after each reload and synchronize.
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