Hi all Rhino users, I wanted to share a new and wonderfully crated radial menu that can be used for rhino and and any other application you like also.
It is fully customisable and accommodates application specific macros. yes you can now have a consistent radial menu across all your CAD applications.
Best of all it has a community element to it where you can upload your radial menu configuration for your selected application/s and make them available for new users to download to get them up and running fast. I have uploaded my Rhino configuration as a starting point for you all. Feel free to modify it however you like.
In the radial menu general tab you can set how you would like to get the menu to popup. I have mine set to a single click of the middle mouse button essentially replacing the native rhino popup menu but you can customise this to whatever you like.
Note I am not the developer of this application, Iām just a very impressed user. That credit goes to Alexander Kamperhaug and you can contact him from the about tab in the radial menu configuration.
below is a link to the Microsoft store where you can download the application or just search āRadial Menuā within the Microsoft store and you will be able to find it.
It has a free and a very very very inexpressive pro version. download the free version and show your appreciation by upgrading to the pro version for the price of 2 morning coffees.
Here is a very crude screencast tutorial on how to use this application. I just quickly put it together to help anyone out.
here is a zip folder containing all the rhino icon files so you guys can make your own macros using the proper rhino icons
I already tried the default menu and it works nicely so far.
EDIT: The program fails to open folders written in Bulgarian alphabet. Worked only once, then stopped doing it. However, it opens all folders written in Latin alphabet every time.
Since Bulgaria switched to Euro currency from 1st of January 2026, Iām unable to buy the Pro version, because the folks at āM$ā live in the stone age and still keep my currency to Bulgarian lev.
I installed the program and so far it works better than the initial version which I tested earlier today. Thank you!
However, I noticed that most times it will open the Windows 10 Explorer folders in the background if they are named with Bulgarian alphabet. Then they start to blink in red in the taaskbar. It opens them in a minimized size instead of fullscreen, too. It may be some bug with Windows 10 itself.
All the 4 default folders named with Latin alphabet open in the foreground (on top of all currently opened programs) and always in fullscreen.
I downloaded the Rhino preset. There is some noticeable delay when I move the mouse point along the outer secondary buttons. At least on my PC.
I found that when the āPass-through clickā option is activated the Radial menu program successfully opens any folder with Bulgarian alphabet on the foreground and in fullscreen. If I disable this option, all the folders named with Bulgarian alphabet open in the background and minimized.
On a side note, I figured out that the radial menu takes the focus from Rhino, so my 3d mouse also exhibits about 3-4 seconds of delay every time when I use the radial menu and then switch back to Rhino. The latter basically freezes for a moment. Worth noting is that I use a discontinued device (SpacePilot) and a more than a decade old driver, so this particular delay may be caused from my hardware and/or software.
Unfortunately, Iām spoiled to use Rhinoās pop-up menu while dynamically navigating in the viewport with my 3d mouse, so I will end up using my Rhino normally as before.
I noticed that the Radial menu automatically opens in āedit modeā upon every start or restart of my Windows 10. Not a big deal, just reporting here and wondering if anyone else experienced that behaviour.
As for the unwanted delay while moving the mouse pointer across the buttons of the Radial menu, mentioned in my previous post, I figured out that itās mostly caused by the āCast shadowsā setting that activates the ambient shadows. Once itās disabled, the delay occurs less often, though itās still there.
Hey Alexander, Iād like to suggest adding an option to display only text without an icon. Also, at least for me, the arrow indicating the āsubmenuā feels quite largeāit would be nice to have the option to adjust its size, perhaps with a range to make it as small as possible, or even a switch to show/hide it.
In addition, Iāve sent you an email about creating more radial menu instances per app, which I think could be a very interesting addition. Please check that out.
Other than that, this tool is very useful. Congratulations on your work so far!
I suggest to add a button that will revert to the default Windows Explorer functionality when the Radial menu switches to a dedicared program (like Rhino). For example, when the Radial menu is in āRhino modeā, one of the buttons (the bottom one maybe?) could be used to switch to the default mode even when the focus is on Rhino. And vice versa: Once the Radial menu is in the default mode over Rhino, the lower button could be used to switch again to āRhino modeā (or whatever other program is on focus).
