I’m having issues with icons in the 3Dconnexion radial menu.
Rhino 9 only displays a handful of the icons and I believe just the ones I made myself.
In the 3Dconnexion menu, I don’t see any icons when trying to make a new radial menu. This worked in Rhino 8 but since a few versions of the WIP it failed in Rhino 9.
Editing existing radial menues from Rhino 8 show the icons in the menu but the Rhino icons later are not displayed in the radial menu.
Rhino 8 shows the icons as expected.
My 3Dconnexion driver isn’t the latest. Guess I’ll try to update asap and see if that fixes the problem.
I updated to the latest 3Dconnexion driver but unfortunately the driver does not see the new Rhino icons. It does see the *.png icons I created myself
Copilot said the 3Dconnexxion driver can’t read the *.svg files and suggested converting the icons to *.png
The driver gets customized settings from Rhino.xml file.
3Dconnexion radial menues contains icons in Base64 format but these do not display consistently at the moment.
I’ve had the situation where the icons showed once when opening Rhino and then disappeared
from PIL import Image
import base64, io
img = Image.open(r"C:\Users\martinsiegrist\OneDrive\Documents\rhino\icons\rhino_png\SlideEdge.png").convert("RGBA")
img = img.resize((30,30), Image.LANCZOS)
buf = io.BytesIO()
img.save(buf, format="PNG", optimize=True)
print(base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode())
The driver does not display *.svg icons so the icons need to be converted to base64.
After deleting line 653 the command icon shows but the command isn’t executed.
The driver contains a base64 icon and it seems it cannot be overriden.
Would be nice if this could get fixed.
In the settings the icon appears but not in the menu…
@Gijs is this something for you?
Gijs
July 20, 2026, 2:39pm
6
hi @martinsiegrist RH-97073 Icons in 3d connection radial menu
Thanks I’ve also sent a link to this topic to 3Dconnexion EU support. Apparently they’re aware of the issue already.
Sehr geehrter Herr Siegrist,
vielen Dank, dass Sie uns auf dieses Problem aufmerksam gemacht haben.
Auch 3Dconnexion hat das Icon-Problem in Rhino WIP festgestellt und intern unter KAI-3907 erfasst. Wir stehen hierzu bereits mit McNeel in Kontakt.
Wir informieren Sie, sobald es Neuigkeiten gibt.
Wir danken Ihnen für Ihre Geduld und Ihr Verständnis, während wir an der Lösung Ihres Anliegens arbeiten.
Vielen Dank für Ihre Zusammenarbeit.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Amro
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Your Ticket-ID: [#3Dx-31805 ]
After @jeremy5 mentioned the legacy mode in this topic I thought I’d have to switch to the new mode too.
And the radial menu icons are here again.
jeremy5
July 30, 2026, 4:53pm
9
I wish there was a twelve segment option so we had an incentive to create new icons with a zodiacal influence. Then we could hook Rhino up to a shyster ai that could say things like “Your edges are in conjunction: you will be surprised by a successful fillet.”…
Sorry, I think I’ve had too much sun.
