It would be very useful to extend the current Grid command with additional controls for axis visibility. At the moment, we only have a checkbox to show or hide the axes globally. A more flexible approach would be to allow independent toggling of each axis: Show/Hide X axis Show/Hide Y axis Show/H…

There is a serious issue with the axes. I just ran a check in Rhinoceros 8 and Rhinoceros 9: when extruding a cube in Rhino 9 with a positive value, it goes downward (as if the Z axis were inverted), and it doesn’t match the axis icon in the bottom-left corner. Look: if I open Rhino 8 and extrude t…

[image] Brv: [2] The coordinate system you drew is a left hand system, not right hand system. (Compare it to the axes in the lower left corner. Y is in the opposite direction.) You are mixing the World coordinate system and the Cplane coordinate systems. They are independent. Extrusion dir…

I brought the same object into Rhino 8 (the bottom-left icon matches the Z axis of the world), but in Rhino 9 it doesn’t—how do you explain that? Rhino 9 has the Z axis wrong—honestly, I couldn’t demonstrate it better than in this video. No, if AutoCPlane had been active, I would have notice…

Not seeing anything unusual here in a quick test. Can you post your Rhino 8 file and steps to repeat? Thanks!

I’ll send you the Rhino file via message. I’ve attached the custom settings I work with—maybe you can figure out why.

@Japhy Ok, thanks for taking a look at my Rhino settings, I’ve corrected the CPlane. [gfhhdth] Anyway, my suggestion to include options for displaying the axes in the CPlane still stands. When activating the Grid command, having checkboxes to toggle each axis individually would be useful—like in …

@Japhy There is something really strange… in the perspective view everything is fine, but in the parallel view it isn’t. How is it possible that the CPlane changes? Isn’t that strange? Asse Z - capovolto.3dm (65.6 KB)

In Options you can select Standard Cplanes or Universal Cplanes. With Universal Cplanes when the Cplane in one viewport is changed the Cplanes in the other viwports are also changed. With Standard Cplanes the Cplane in each viewport is independent. Changing the Cplane in one viewport does not affect…

In Rhinoceros 8, the X, Y, Z plane in the perspective view matches the X, Y, Z plane in the isometric view. rhino 9 @wim You changed it, but this is a Rhino 9 issue — I don’t have this problem in version 8. Starting from the perspective view (the axes are correct), I switched to the isometri…

[image] David Cockey: In Options you can select Standard Cplanes or Universal Cplanes. With Universal Cplanes when the Cplane in one viewport is changed the Cplanes in the other viwports are also changed. With Standard Cplanes the Cplane in each viewport is independent. Changing the Cplane in on…

Add option in Grid to toggle X, Y, Z axes visibility independently

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Japhy (Japhy) April 23, 2026, 5:56pm 25

Hi Brv, I added a feature request with your idea.

RH-95000 More control over x, y, z axis visibility control

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Add option in Grid to toggle X, Y, Z axes visibility independently

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