Recap

What you covered, the commands and components you met, and where to go next.

What you covered

Installed and verified Rhino.Inside.AutoCAD as an AutoCAD plug-in bundle.
Launched Rhino inside AutoCAD with RHINO, and controlled its preview with TOGGLE_RHINO_PREVIEW.
Launched Grasshopper inside AutoCAD with GRASSHOPPER and oriented yourself to the canvas and the AutoCAD tab.
Previewed a definition and watched geometry flow live from Grasshopper → Rhino → the AutoCAD viewport, controlling it with the GRASSHOPPER_PREVIEW_* and solver commands.
Baked Grasshopper geometry into the drawing with the Bake to AutoCAD component, and saw the difference between a transient preview and a permanent AutoCAD entity — including why a Button (one-shot) beats a held Toggle (bakes on every recompute).
Met the AutoCAD-native types — Block Definitions, Block References, Layers, Line Types, and Layouts — that have no clean Rhino equivalent, and learned the repeating Get all / Get by name / type / Create new / Set component pattern for working with them.
Queried the drawing — referenced an object directly with a Params ▸ AutoCAD param ("Set One AutoCAD …"), used the active-document default and the AutoCAD DBObject inspector, and selected objects with filters (geometry-type, plus And/Or composite filters) via Get AutoCAD Objects By Filter.

The core ideas to carry forward

The preview is a live, non-saved overlay of Rhino/Grasshopper geometry in the AutoCAD viewport.
The geometry exchange is live — change the definition and the preview updates.
Baking is the bridge from preview to drawing: it commits geometry as real AutoCAD entities — once per Button press.
Raw geometry crosses freely between Rhino and AutoCAD, but AutoCAD-native types (blocks, layers, line types, layouts) are kept as native objects and handled with dedicated components.
Document inputs default to the active drawing, so reading from and writing to AutoCAD usually "just works" without wiring a document in.

Command reference

Command	What it does
`RHINO`	Launch Rhino (windowed) inside AutoCAD
`GRASSHOPPER`	Launch Grasshopper (Rhino runs headless)
`TOGGLE_RHINO_PREVIEW`	Show / hide the Rhino preview
`GRASSHOPPER_PREVIEW_SHADED`	Grasshopper preview: shaded (partially supported)
`GRASSHOPPER_PREVIEW_WIREFRAME`	Grasshopper preview: wireframe
`GRASSHOPPER_PREVIEW_OFF`	Grasshopper preview: off
`GRASSHOPPER_RECOMPUTE`	Force a Grasshopper recompute
`GRASSHOPPER_TOGGLE_SOLVER`	Enable / disable the Grasshopper solver

Key parameter (Params) reference

The Params ▸ AutoCAD group holds the parameter components you can place on the canvas to specify and reference AutoCAD data. The user-placeable params are the geometry, annotation, and block-reference types:

Param	Category
Curve, Point, Mesh, Solid, Hatch	Geometry
Text, Dimension, Leader	Annotation
Block Reference	Blocks

Key component reference

A few of the Grasshopper components on the AutoCAD tab you met in this guide:

Component	Group	What it does
Bake to AutoCAD (`AC-Bake`)	Baking	Commits Rhino/AutoCAD geometry into the drawing as real entities
AutoCAD Document (`AC-Doc`)	Document	Decomposes a document (file name, path, read-only, active)
AutoCAD DBObject (`AC-DbObj`)	Document	Inspects any object's shared properties (type, layer, colour, linetype, …)
Get AutoCAD Objects By Filter (`AC-GetByFilter`)	Filter	Returns objects in the drawing matching a filter
And Filter / Or Filter (`AC-AndFilter` / `AC-OrFilter`)	Filter	Combine two filters into one composite filter
Create Custom Filter (`AC-CustomFilter`)	Filter	Builds a filter from raw DXF filter rules
Get all	per type (Layer, Block, Line Type, Layout)	Fetches every item of that type in the document
Get by name	per type (Layer, Block, Line Type, Layout)	Retrieves a single named item
Type component (decompose)	per type (Layer, Block, Line Type, Layout)	Represents the type and exposes its properties
Create new	per type (Layer, Block, Line Type, Layout)	Creates a new item of that type in the document
Set	per type (Layer, Block, Line Type, Layout)	Modifies an existing item

Where to go next

The best next step is one of our workshops — and we'll soon be running dedicated Rhino.Inside.AutoCAD and Civil 3D sessions.

Bimorph Workshops

Hands-on, instructor-led online sessions are the fastest way to build on these foundations.

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