Is it fair to bump this once per month? 
@pascal mentioned that my block complaints were 20 years too late, so I donât want to be late on this. 
Edge pairs must not be two operations. It must be a single operation, and ideally box drag selection should be supported to add any number of edge pairs in one operation! You will create repetetive strain injuries otherwise, and Iâm not joking on that.
(And speaking of RSI, it would actually be nice to be able to hold down the buttons on the MoveUVN tool and have them âtickâ at a reasonable interval so you donât have to click/drag around as much for the adjustments eitherâŚ)
@eobet so you want window select for edge pairs for the EdgeContinuity command?
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-58787
(Re: MoveUVN, please start a new thread. This one is about EdgeContinuity. Itâs really difficult for us to track many different, unrelated concepts in a single thread. I see they are related by ârepetitive stressâ - but having that be a top-level thread topic is too broad.)
Thank you, yes thatâs exactly it!
This will be partially fixed in the next WIP. Youâll be able to pick an edge pair with a window or crossing, but picking overlapping edges with a single pick will have to wait for another time (or another typist).
The box selection doesnât seem to work very well. First edge pair I try to select across just gets ignored, the second says âcannot useâ and only the third ever shows upâŚ
This is in V7 SR7. The file is here:
continuitysurfaces.3dm (187.2 KB)
I believe the âcannot useâ one was due to the simultaneous selection of more than 2 edges. Also, to allow _EdgeContinuity to report the on all 3 edge pairs, the edge of the left surface needs to be split at the intersection with the other surfaces.
You can use this script to more quickly select multiple edge pairs:
rhinopython/xBatchSelectFor_EdgeContinuity.py at master ¡ CADacombs/rhinopython ¡ GitHub
Rhino should be able to detect connecting edges automatically.
That way we would have to just select the surfaces that we want to analyse.
Alternatively there should be an âall objectsâ button.
Sorry, I ment to say âadditionallyâ instead of âalternativelyâ.
I have two proposals how to improve the âEdge continuityâ tool:
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Put the numeric markers near the middle of the edges. The current implementation positions them at the end of an edge (if the distance is equal along the entire length), resulting into an inability to read the numbers where a single surface edge is next to couple of other surface edges.
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Add an option for a single click on a surface to automatically detect any nearby surfaces whose edges are within a certain amount of distance from the picked surface (1 mm should be enough). For example, if I click on the purple surface in the image below and adjacent surfaces 1, 3, 4 and 5 are located in less than 1 mm distance from the former, while surface 2 is at 1,27 mm away from it, then âEdge continuityâ should detect that and turn on the numeric markers on surfaces 1, 3, 4 and 5. Since surface 2 is located too far away from the purple surface, it will not be included in the âEdge continuityâ analysis by default, unless itâs eventually manually clicked and added.
Even better would be to add a new slider to adjust the autodetect distance at any given moment. That particular slider would be handy to quickly check if some nearby surfaces are at certain distance from the target surface.
I would find this very useful as well.
Everything @Rhino_Bulgaria said.
Proposal #3. Add a button called âPlace markerâ (or âSet markerâ?) to manually place a numerical marker along the edge, with the usual ability to snap to middle, knot, point, end etc. The idea behind that marker is to always stay fixed there (unless turned off manually), no matter whatâs the distance and whether there is a shorter distance between the input edges somewhere else. The user should be allowed to place as many numerical markers as he/she wants. This option will be very handy while trying to figure out where and how to adjust the surface(s), in order to make the gap in-between tighter.
Upon each pressing of the âPlace markerâ button, the Command line should display two new options:
3.1. By clicking on the âRemove markerâ option the user could pick and remove existing marker(s) if necessary;
3.2. âNumber of markers=1â (default is 1) is used in two ways:
a) If the number is 1, then the numerical marker will be automatically placed at the middle between two edges after hitting the Enter key or the RMB. However, the user must be also able to place the single marker along the edges (or along the shorter of the two edges, if one of them is much longer and shared with a 3rd surface) via the mouse and the LMB.
b) If the number is 2 or greater, then Rhino adds the numerical markers where the shorter of the two edges is virtually divided into equal lengths (in a similar fashion like the âDivideâ command that adds new points along the edge). For example, if the number is 5, Rhino will divide the edge into 4 lengths and will place 3 numerical markers at 25%, 50% and 75% along the length of the shorter edge, plus two numerical markers at the start and the end of the latter.
P.S. The inspiration for that idea came after I tried the âEdge continuityâ tool on the model from the following video and it was not possible to keep the numerical marker at the desired position to further minimize the gap via the âMove UVNâ tool.
Thanks, yâall, Iâll add your suggestions to the heap.\
RH-65146 EdgeContinuity: Autodetect nearby edges
@Rhino_Bulgaria - as far as I can see the numeric readout is placed at the location of max deviation.
-Pascal
Cool. 
Pascal, is there a chance to also add the ability to place markers at the desired location along a pair or surface edges? Me and other Rhino users often do control point adjustments via the âMoveUVNâ tool and would like to be able to see the changes of angle and distance on those gaps in certain fixed positions (custom number of markings set at equal distances along an edge pair, or manually placed with ability to snap to objects).
Another handy addition would be the ability to make the marking floating and movable by the mouse along the screen, in a similar fashion like the markings in Solidworks.
Here is an image example to better visualize what I mean:
So, the above proposition is not into consideration? 
I have asked for this in the past. it seems logical
sometimes the markings coincide on the same corners
⌠and it is very difficult to distinguish the appropriate label at each edge
Just noticed that one canât do EdgeContinuity against extruded surfacesâŚ
Youâll probably have to convert them to polysurfaces again then. Extrusion objects are smaller datawise for the scene as I recall reading in the manual once.