Hi all, I’m a relatively new guy on the geometry team at McNeel and I’m getting into learning more about direct modeling and what can be done to improve how Rhino does it. Solid Tools? Transform??? I need to understand how people use these tools in order to see where improvements would be most usef…

[image] eobet: Great. Now how about doing that automatically behind the scenes whenever you use sub object select to move a face (or control point) on a closed polysurface, so users don’t have to rely on Rhino’s super flaky history ? Thank you for your feedback. Recording history is indeed eas…

Do you realize the object management nightmare you expect your users to juggle by doing that manually? Do you realize what you’ll essentially will force your users to turn the layers panel into? [GIF] Ok, that’s enough forum for me now. Time to log off for another couple of months… …

[image] eobet: Do you realize the object management nightmare you expect your users to juggle by doing that manually? Do you realize what you’ll essentially will force your users to turn the layers panel into? Perhaps a separate interface is needed here specifically for managing the recording…

[image] Ftzuk: time fiddling with fillets As an industrial designer, I would execute such a task in Plasticity or Fusion. With NX it took 3 minutes. With Rhino it took 30 minutes. That said, I have yet to see a colleague in this industry sector (Japanese/German tier-1 brand) “designing by CAD…

[image] Jessesn Chen: Actually, FilletEdge already support recording history. It just needs the addition of a Delete Input = No options. I have already logged this requirement to our development engineers. The comment was more about the failing of basic fillets. But this has been addressed pl…

[image] Jessesn Chen: Perhaps a separate interface is needed here specifically for managing the recording history, so that the issue you’ve currently mentioned wouldn’t arise. Personally I’d like a model history tree and features with History enabled & linked can be highlighted or something. …

Since McNeel has for the past decades been adamant that Rhino isn’t a parametric modeler, I very deliberately said several times in my rants that it doesn’t have to be. There’s alternative ways to do it that’s equally as good, and the synchronous modeling in NX is one way, and for example the way Al…

Indeed, Alias’ history has come a long way over the last decade, even though it’s surface based.

[image] Lagom: I have yet to see a colleague in this industry sector (Japanese/German tier-1 brand) “designing by CAD” as shown in the OP. This is the key. The “arriving at” by pushing and pulling elements has some utility for working out an idea. Never for something like this camera body ob…

[image] Shaw Kaake: PTC has always run similar non-relevant but slick demos. Well, every 3D software vendor does ; )

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ftzuk (Ftzuk) March 16, 2026, 8:16am 27

Personally I’d like a model history tree and features with History enabled & linked can be highlighted or something.

(History enabled on highlighted features)

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