Built my first ever Rhino plugin!
Meet the ColumnCenterlinePlugin — it instantly creates structural centerlines, labels, and dimensions from your column geometry.
Took me 7 days, 37 bugs, and a lot of coffee.
This started as a fun experiment, I just wanted to understand how plugins in Rhino actually work.
I had zero coding background in c#, literally none.
So I decided to dive into C#, Visual Studio, and the RhinoCommon SDK… and things got interesting real fast
The plugin works like this:
1. You run the command ColumnCenterlineCommand
2. Input your layer name (e.g. “COLUMN”)
3. Choose your settings , extension length, grouping tolerance, circle radius
4. Watch it auto-generate the full grid!