Projects overview
Link a Rhino file to a project, see what the project holds, and keep it private.
The Wrengler panel opens on Projects. Switch to Systems at the top for the analysis studies; the panel remembers your choice.
Link a Rhino file#
- Open or create the Rhino file.
- In the Wrengler panel, on Projects, choose Link project.
- Pick one of your projects, or type a name to create a new one.
- Save the Rhino file. The link is stored in the file itself.
From then on the file opens already linked. The link survives renaming and moving the file.
Note
Save As makes a copy that stays in the same project and shows up there as its own file, so you can see both versions side by side.
To move a file to another project, choose the project name in the panel and pick a different one. Unlink removes the file from its project; linking it again later finds the same file.
Where projects live#
Every project sits in a workspace, and every workspace in an organization:
- Organization: the people, their roles and the rules, such as limits, the audit log and housekeeping.
- Workspace: a team, client or programme of work. It decides who can open its projects, and it holds the knowledge they share.
- Project: the work itself: its Rhino files, uploaded files, studies and conversations.
The dashboard's sidebar walks down this path one level at a time. An organization lists its workspaces, a workspace lists its projects, and the link at the top of the sidebar goes back up a level. Your personal organization is just you, so it skips the workspace level: your projects sit directly under it until you add a second workspace.
Organization and workspace overviews#
Organization Overview is your entry point into the workspaces you can access. Search them by name, open recent projects, and see knowledge waiting for your review. Owners and admins also see organization membership, invitations, access review, audit, and organization limits. Other roles see counts for accessible workspaces and projects. Personal billing stays in your account.
Workspace Overview is a separate view of one workspace: its projects, agreed knowledge, proposals, and the number of active files, notes, and folders on its desk. Leads get review and settings links, editors can create projects, and viewers can browse. Knowledge opens the workspace's existing canvas. Being an organization member does not grant workspace access; organization owners and admins have lead access across its workspaces.
Both views fill the available page. The sidebar highlights Overview and Knowledge separately.
What a project holds#
| What | Where it comes from | Where you manage it |
|---|---|---|
| Rhino files | linked from the panel | the panel (link, unlink) |
| Files | PDFs, Word files, notes and images you upload (supported files) | the project page on the web |
| Tags | key/value facts: gfa = 12000 m², typology = residential | the project page on the web |
| Studies | analyses saved to the project; saving runs from the panel is coming | the project page on the web |
| Conversations | chats with the assistant | the panel and the web (the same threads) |
In the panel, the database icon next to the project name opens the project's data: every linked Rhino file, uploaded file, tag and study, by source. On the web, the project page has a Chat tab and a Data tab.
Tags make projects comparable. On your projects list, filter by a tag
(gfa ≥ 10000) to find every project that matches.
Supported files#
A project accepts these files. Anything else is refused when you attach it, with a message listing what is accepted.
| Format | Extensions | The assistant can read it |
|---|---|---|
.pdf | Yes: the text in the file. A scanned PDF is only pictures of pages, so it has no text to read. | |
| Word | .docx | Yes: the text of the document |
| Markdown | .md, .markdown | Yes |
| Plain text | .txt | Yes |
| CSV | .csv | Yes |
| Images | .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp | No: stored and shown, not read |
The assistant quotes what it reads from these files, and still takes numbers from the project's tags and studies rather than from a document's text.
Tip
Have a file in another format? Save or export it as one of these first: a spreadsheet as .csv,
an older Word .doc as .docx, a drawing as .pdf.
Files attached before this list existed stay in the project. Rhino files are never uploaded; they are linked.
Who can see a project#
A project in your personal organization is private to you. A project in a shared organization's workspace is visible to that workspace's members, each with the role they were given there.
- The Rhino file only carries the project's id. It never carries the project's name, its files, or any key.
- If someone opens a copy of your file, the panel tells them it is linked to a project they don't have access to. It never shows them the project's name, and they cannot read it or add to it. They can unlink the copy and link it to a project of their own.
- Access is checked by the database on every request, not by the panel, so a modified file or plug-in cannot get around it.
Note
Working with colleagues. Create an organization, invite them to it, and put the project in one of its workspaces. An invite adds no one: copy its link under Members and send it, and your colleague accepts it with the invited address. Their copy of the Rhino file then opens the same project.
Selecting conversations#
In the project’s Chat list, choose Select conversations to reveal checkboxes. Click a checkbox or a conversation row to toggle it. Shift-click selects the range from your previous selection; Cmd-click on Mac or Ctrl-click elsewhere toggles individual conversations without opening them. Select all selects the conversations you can manage, or the current filter’s matches. A selection hidden by the filter stays selected and is called out above the list.
Selected conversations stay highlighted, including the open conversation. With a selection, the three-dot menu acts on the whole selection and shows N selected and Delete N conversations. Rename is available only for a single conversation. Choose the counted delete action or the selection bar’s Delete, review the listed titles and confirm. You can manage conversations you started; project leads can also manage others on the platform. Deletion cannot be undone and removes the conversation from both web and Rhino lists. Its messages still count toward monthly usage. If a deletion fails, the remaining conversations stay selected for retry. Cancel selection clears the selection; Escape does the same in the web list.
Rhino’s Conversation history offers the same selection and range controls for conversations you started, with a three-dot selection menu showing N selected and Delete N conversations, followed by a title-list confirmation.
A deleted conversation is hidden from everyone in the project at once. The person who started it and the project’s leads find it under Recently deleted, at the bottom of the Chat list, and can Restore it for 30 days. After that it is deleted for good, with its messages and summary.