Gumball with aligned directions + normal

[Cadworx]

@dale

And we are investigating how to best improve both grip and gumball editing tools in Rhino 9.

Hi Dale, could you elaborate on that please? Are you developing an improved CV modeling tool?

@Tom_P

plasticity does has this feature
gumball orientated on control-polygon and normal.
“slide tool”

What’s New Plasticity 25.1!!!

@Cadworx

Here is how I think this could work. To get that Gumball “feeling” of using a handle,
each Control Polygon is split at the middle. You do not grab a Control Point, but the handle on either side “A” or “B” , which fully defines a Control Point and the corresponding tangent with a single click.

Additionally this would also solve the “shallow angle” problem between the tangent extention and the “next” Polygon.

This of course works in all four directions: