With an effort to fill in some of the "gaps" of the current Rust creative mode, the Hammer tool will now be a whole lot more useful for your day-to-day life on PvE and/or PvP-type servers.
By default, you need to have Creative Mode enabled on your player, you can do so using togglecreativemodeuser myname 1.
To activate the UI, you must hold a Hammer or Garry's Mod Tool. To use the Hammer UI without having Creative Mode enabled, players with moderator and/or admins can run hammer creativebypass 1 to bypass that behaviour. To use the UI without holding a hammer altogether, you can run hammer hammerbypass 1.