I use relative coordinates r0,0,12
as a workaround - but I do not teach it in a beginners class - but maybe I will / should.
I doubt it works as expected without the “r” especially for curves that are not on the current cplane. (Z=0)
thanks.
I am not talking about a completely new approach - it is a finetune:
Entering a number an finish with a mouse-click on the viewport will be the behaviour as it is currently.
Entering a number with a sign and finish with Enter will be a pure keyboard input.
there is still the second issue about direction indicator - that should not be at center of bounding box but at Mouse-Position-Curve-Closest-Point. see above with screenshots etc…
@Tom_P I wouldn’t even be sorry about it. There’s nothing more frustrating than the mouse direction mattering for most commands, then when I have to extrude a surface in a certain direction I feel like indicating with my mouse like I usually do, Rhino tells me that water isn’t wet.
@Gijs Please take the idea of MouseDirectionMatters 0/1 or similar seriously.
I’ve always thought there should be a directiion arrow indicating the default + direction, then it would be easy enough to know whether a ‘-’ is needed on a typed distance. Basically the same info Gumball provides.
instead of the old , white, extrude widget / boundingbox-centered bla bla bla…
we could have a nice arrow, inspired by gumball-graphics.
and please make it mouse closest point - not bbox-centered.
the new graphic feedback will also inform about the change regarding numeric input.
(please check above posts for more detail about numeric input vs mouse input, direction-identification by bbox-center vs mouse closest point)
This is not happening in the current V8.1RC under Windows. I have the crosshairs cursor set up though. If I turn them off, then I get the little 4-dash cursor when I run ExtrudeCrv. I also get the thin blue line indicating the extrusion axis.
Actually, on second test, on an angled planar curve there is no blue line - just the normal object color line inside. I don’t know where this blue line is coming from - it only seems to show up on extrusions in Z?
