Rhino has about a thousand unnecessary clicks and steps that really tears on my RSI, but one that doesn’t just do that, but also either fails or creates infuriating mistakes you don’t immediately notice, is the implicit trim direction that Rhino creates internally without ever showing or telling you…

[image] eobet: Trim Direction=Normal Normal to what? The surface you are trimming, the active CPlane or the curve’s plane (if planar)?

I’m surprised you have to ask that question. You don’t have a preference that you’d use 99% of the time? I come from a different software package where you were allowed to select the direction, and in that tool I set it to target surface normal back in 2009, and I still haven’t changed it! :rofl:

[image] eobet: I’m surprised you have to ask that question. You don’t have a preference that you’d use 99% of the time? I’m used to the default CPlane normal-based trimming, so that’s what I use - 99% of the time, I guess…

I just trim with surfaces, because I am lazy to keep track which view I am currently at or what Cplane I was using last. So I just extend the curve as surface and see if it is going where I expected, then I trim surface with surface.

Ok. Just to be clear. I’m posting in the V7 forum, not the V6 forum. So both of you are happy to waste seconds, turning into minutes, turning into hours, and neither of you want this feature to be added to Rhino? Are you happy with the status quo, or are you just resolved that this is another of th…

[image] eobet: Are you happy with the status quo Yes, I am, but I probably don’t do the same kind of stuff you do or have the same expectations. [image] eobet: I set it to target surface normal back in 2009, and I still haven’t changed it! The question is, given a TrimDirection=Target…

[image] eobet: Ok. Just to be clear. I’m posting in the V7 forum, not the V6 forum. So both of you are happy to waste seconds, turning into minutes, turning into hours, and neither of you want this feature to be added to Rhino? No because your workflow sounds weird if this is causing you so m…

[image] Helvetosaur: Maybe post an example of how you expect this to work? It’s not a mystery. I’m reluctant to mention other threads and other software, but so many problems that exist in Rhino are solved problems in other software packages (yes, yes, why don’t you use them instead I hear yo…

[image] JimCarruthers: No because your workflow sounds weird if this is causing you so much apparent grief. So if you’re in an orthographic view trimming off an object with a flat curve, you STILL want it to Pull? How do you ever precisely trim anything? I don’t know… how do CAD other package…

Two years on, and I still have to do 12 clicks for every trim that should really only be 4 clicks… [pull-to-trim] Let me tell you, this adds up over the years!

Please add Trim Direction=Normal/Pull

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eobet (eobet) October 28, 2020, 1:49pm 10

I don’t know… how do CAD other packages ever trim anything precisely?

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I don’t understand why the Rhino community finds this concept so alien, when the rest of the CAD world has used it as standard for the last two decades…

Another day another trim fail

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Please add Trim Direction=Normal/Pull

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