Nearly impossible to relocate gumball

R7: CTRL + Click on the little white dot and place.

R8: Still haven’t figured it out but it’s worse and inconsistent. I cannot use the right-click menu because it wrecks my keystrokes.

Other than that liking pretty much everything else!!

To move, rotate, or scale Gumball widget freely

  1. Double-click on a handle.
  2. Drag the handle and release.
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Hello,you can change menu ball size also in Rhino8.

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Thank-you and Thank-you,

What I’m doing is double clicking on the white ball (the little solid one not the menu ball) and that alone allows me to move the gumball around. Feels like it works better than what I used to do in R7, just getting used to it is all.

Hello- in V8 you can double-click any Gumball control, well, not the extrusion dot, to relocate via that control - e.g. relocate along the red axis by double-clicking the red arrow, etc.

-Pascal

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as a keyboard guy I still use my assigned alias GR for !_GumballRelocate

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Same here. My alias is simply g because I do this all the time. (gg to toggle the gumball)

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Unless the gumball control lies anywhere near something in the view that can be edited by double-clicking, in which case instead of relocating the control, you get a pop-up inviting you to edit something else, like a dimension, text, etc. and you have to cancel/close it, RE-select your objects, and try some trickery to double click the control without double clicking the other thing. Annoying as hell, particularly since V7 worked fine.

I think that any additional complexity added to the gumball will take it over the edge. It definitely takes more know-how to manage the gumball in R8 versus R7. There’s a lot of quirks you have to memorize actually. If it was just the gumball that would be one thing…

I find myself frequently problem solving in order to get the gumball to behave the way I want. But it’s manageable at least, and I’m getting used to it.

I’ve noticed a bug where the gumball doesn’t properly adhere to the “align to Cplane” or “align to object” options. I haven’t complaint yet because I haven’t figured it out. I think I’ve mostly figured out how to work around it at least.