Great Block Edit Plugin functions that hopefully will become native

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Hi Wim,

This plugin Block Edit New | Food4Rhino basically is 90% there in terms what I (and many others) are looking for:

  1. Make Unique (currently we have to explode and re-define which is silly)

  2. Change block name while editing without having to go to block manager

  3. Double-click to go up and down the nested block tree (similar to SketchUp), so we can work with nested blocks more smoothly

    1. To be precise, it’s possible to go into nested block in Rhino right now but only through the block tree panel; with on-going and complex nested structures on a real project it’s impossible to tell which block is which by looking at the names, especially when you have multiple same nested definition inside a block.
    2. it’s much better to click into the block objects on the screen than through a separate panel.

  4. Double-click blank space to save and exit editing

  5. Support editing non-uniformly scaled Block

  6. Switch between lock or hide rest outside of the block, which is also super important combined with (3), when dealing with large complex model with many layers of hierarchy like in any architectural project, so we can “isolate” the currently editing block without getting obstructed by everything else

  7. I like how this plugin support “group edit” in a similar fashion to blocks so groups feel more powerful

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