2 major issues with blocks. I’m in v5 so please let me know if this is different in 6 anyone. is there a way to prompt your block so you do not by accident press cancel or the dreaded “x” in the corner === and then lose like 5 hours of work, sometimes. I’ve grown into the workflow of every so oft…

I tried to encourage a little more polish on the block manager. [image] V6: Making a Better Block Manager Rhino for Windows I’ve done some posts with suggestions for a better block manager. In using Rhino v5 on a drawing with more than 200 different blocks, I …

[image] zale_orcid: a way to prompt your block Hello - I am not sure what this means - what command are you running? Can you give some context? -Pascal

Hi Pascal. I guess I THOUGHT there was a cancel option . But no, in the block edit - there is just an OK button and a HELP button. If you hide objects in your block and press OK you get a “prompt” basically if you want to keep those hidden objects or not - which is a bit confusing in the way it’s wo…

Hello - got it - the basic wish is for clicking X to prompt to save changes, correct? Would it be better/clearer not to have an X but have a Cancel button instead? https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-51428 -Pascal

YES that is the basic wish :slight_smile: Sure if you replace the HELP with CANCEL and include the Prompt Save Changes. That would make it cleaner. Having 3 buttons might be annoying. … I mean that help button is a bit annoying… If you keep the X i think that should also have the save changes too……

Cool . thanks, Brenda. It’s been a while since I’ve been crazy about the block manager but #15, 16,12,19,20 are favorable. Especially volume counting suggestions… I’m not sure this has been done yet…

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brian (Brian Gillespie) June 2, 2026, 9:46pm 8

RH-51428 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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