Gumball Position for Arcs with small sweep angle

[Tom_P]

i came across the following - drawing an arc with small sweep angle - the gumball is far of screen

technically correct - the gumball is at the center of the arc / circle

but somehow this does not feel intuitive or user-friendly.

I think the only solution / approach would be, to allow the users to choose different algorithms how gumball position is calculated - see link below.

Gumball_of_screen_for_arc.3dm (3.1 MB)

(Wish) Gumball Location, _GumballRelocate with different Options

[image] Above the most simple case that annoys me: select 3 of 6 CVs of the black Hexagon. Gumball Position is calculated as center of the red Bounding Box. my wish _GumballRelocate should offer different options to calculate the Gumball Location: BoundingBox-Center (current default) Average of CVs (best for shown case) … other approaches best fit Plane Align to ControlPolygon Normal to Surface smart (automatically shows the best of above options) … it would also be great to have the …

[martinsiegrist]

Gumball oriented to the control points:

[Tom_P]

@martinsiegrist

oriented to the control points

manually ?
is this a suggestion or a wip v9 feature ?

[martinsiegrist]

I’m using V9, yes.

I just tapped F10 to show the control points and oriented the gumball to object. No manual adjusting

[Tom_P]

ok nice oberservation:
selecting the object on its own will result in a different gumball location than selecting all control points …