Check this video at the 2:50 minute. You will notice that the ! _Line _Normal command builds the line in a wrong direction which does not correspond with the surface’s normal direction. To make it work properly, the user is forced to either hold Ctrl+Shift while clicking on the target surface, or ex…

While I perfectly understand your point of view, in practice nearly all users would simply pick the very surface they want to use as a target surface to build a “Line normal to surface”. I doubt that too many people will pick a wrong surface just to be forced to pick again the correct target surface…

Annoying BUG with "Line normal to surface"

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brian (Brian Gillespie) April 19, 2023, 1:01am 17

RH-74224 is fixed in the latest WIP

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Annoying BUG with "Line normal to surface"

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