I proposed this particular feature numerous times over the years, but the developers were not interested in improving the Gumball in this regard.
If you check my last link below, you will find a way to set two numerical values per custom icon. If you regularly use specific values, you can create several custom icons and set those numbers inside.
Currently, Rhino is in something like a NURBS-crisis. Alias made a huge progress in the past 20 years, unlike Rhino’s main NURBS surfacing and control point editing tools that are nearly unchanged since Rhino 2 (with a few minor exceptions). The last few versions of Rhino focused more on non-NURBS stuff, such like tools for Sub-D, 3d meshes, ShrinkWrap etc. While these are nice additions, the NURBS tools are left in the corner.
Both, “Blend surface” and “Match surface” lack a huge amount of fun…
Another example clearly showing the advantage of having hovering options next to the mouse pointer: Running the ! _Fillet should display a vertical list with the (10 or whatever amount is chosen in the options) most recent radius values used within the current session, so that the user could quickly pick one of them without the need to manually enter the value in the Command line. This is especially useful for those who use a 3d mouse, but also for everyone else. Not to mention that it’s a nice …
It’s pity that Rhino 8 will be so limited in actual progress of its NURBS modeling and editing tools.
Here is a detailed topic with many suggestions about “Blend surface” and “Math surface” that are ignored for 5 years in a row by the “McNeel” team and still not implemented in the latest Rhino 8 WIP:
“Blend surface” lacks “Refine match” option similar to the one found in “Match surface”. Huge, huge, HUGE mistake.
“Blend surface” even can’t produce end handles that match the direction of th…
Here is a macro that triggers a specific number, eliminating the need to write it manually in the Command line. It’s handy that two of these could be added to a single icon. I use it to set two of the most common offset values in my workflow. I also made a custom icon for it.
If you only include a number in the command field of the icon, it will be entered in the Command field as soon as you press the icon.
Left mouse button command:
2.6
Right mouse button command:
0.2
However, if you want…