Gumball orientated on control-polygon and normal

[Rhino_Bulgaria (Bobi)]

This have been discussed for years, yet the developers are not keen to implement it yet…

Direct surface control point manipulators and UVW improvement

Hello, Is there any way to directly adjust the position and rotation of individual or multiple control points with “arrow manipulators” similar to the ones shown in the following video at 5:14? I regularly use the UVN tool, and I’m also aware of the holding down the Alt key while building a “Blend surface” to rotate it’s end control point manipulator, but I often need to manually adjust already built surfaces and it’s a lot slower and less interactive to move control points indirectly from the…

Request Move UVN on steroids

With all due respect, in my opinion the current “Drag mode”, “Gumball” and “MoveUVN” are way too limited and don’t provide convenient modeling and editing workflow. Just a few examples, to name a few: Gumball can hugely benefit from having integrated Drag handles next to the existing ones: [Super Gumball 2] [Arrow%20manipulator%201] Displaying small U and V icons next to the edges of the edited NURBS surface was requested for over a decade now, yet it’s still not there… [Infinitely …

The ! _DragMode _ControlPolygon tool is extremely user-unfriendly, so it has little to no real usage. The biggest issue is that it will not limit the sliding of the control point(s) along the control polygon, hence there is a big chance for an accidental movement in a random direction. It does not have the ability to move the control point(s) to the normal direction, too. Not to mention that the user is forced to manually disable the Gumball while working with this particular drag mode, which requires more mouse clicks, including the subsequent enabling of the Gumball.

Having a dedicated ControlPolygonGumball (or Super Gumball) will fully eliminate these disadvantages.

New Gumball is devastatingly bad. Here are some proposals how to fix it

I challenge the Rhino developers to make a prototype Super Gumball featuring the ideas from this topic and then create a poll in a dedicated topic at the Serengeti section to ask the users whether they prefer the current Gumball or the Super Gumball. Things to consider: Additional gumball handles for Drag strength next to the default handles: [Super Gumball 2] Switching between Snappy dragging and Smooth dragging without the need to reach the keyboard: [Gumball Snappy dragging]