I updated today to the latest version of Rhino and the keyboard shortcuts menu is different and I cannot create any kind of shortcut. Struggling to find tutorials on how to do it.
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Since all the shortcut keys you entered already exist in the default list, you need to enter a shortcut key that is not in the default list to create a new one.
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Gotcha.
One other thing I noticed is that I was holding my hotkey combination and then hitting the “New” button. I kept getting an invalid warning. Instead, I needed to click “new” and then hit the hotkey combination.
Thanks.
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The interface in R7 aside, I had really gotten used to my custom shortcuts. I used the Shift key a lot in my customized shortcut set.
For example:
Shift + 2 → Rotate,
Shift + 3 → Rotate3D,
Command + 1 → Scale1D,
Command + 2 → Scale2D,
Command + 3 → Scale,
Option + 1 → Sweep1,
Option + 2 → Sweep2.
Does R8 not allow using the Shift key for shortcuts anymore, or am I just doing something wrong? Could you please help me with this?
Can you help take a screenshot or record a video? Because neither Win nor Mac version of Rhino 7 supports Shift+Num for setting shortcuts.
I wrote the keyboard shortcuts @Serdar_Sisman, let me look into this, I can confirm that on Rhino 7 mac Shift + number does work (As you showed) and doesn’t in 8.
Ticket here : https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-88353/Shift-Key-Shortcut-used-to-work-on-Mac
Thank you, @Callum_Sykes, for your feedback! I appreciate it.
By the way, while I’m not complaining about Rhino 8’s interface with its Windows-like pop-up menus, I find R7’s design undeniably sleeker. My humble suggestion is that, rather than making the Mac version resemble Windows, aligning the Windows version more with the Mac’s aesthetic and elegant style would be a more refined solution. Kind regards!
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I’ll have a look at the two and see what you mean and what I can do 
yes that has been mentioned already, numerous times. Rhino for Mac had many modern approaches to the UI, but instead if using this advantage the mac version brought along we went straight back to 90s UI, demolishing a lot of handy functions along with it like searching for and setting up commands/shortcuts. it has been seriously infuriating and i still cant grasp the purpose of it. unifying is all good and right but not at any cost i would hope.
also the UI is so much snappier in V7 for mac and it still has not caught up!
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I’ve had a look into this, tested some code and chatted to some devs internally, having Shift + Alphanumerics gets a bit weird when it comes to the command line and how it’s focused. In theory a shortcut should always work whatever you press, but if you press Shift + 3 you now can’t type a # into the command line for scripting. It also gets a bit odd when entering strings into commands as Shift + T might not return T but instead run a command. Sorry to say but I think this is something we won’t support going forward.
If either or both of you are open to it, I’d really love to start a new thread and discuss examples of this.
Agreed there. I’m working on this stuff.
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Thank you anyway for trying to find a solution @Callum_Sykes.
By the way, I’d be more than happy to help in any way I can to contribute to the development of the Rhino program. However, I’m still quite new to this platform. I’ll try to start a new thread about the design and, if possible, send you an invitation too. As a designer, I’d be glad to share my ideas.
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We’d love that too! Posting here, asking questions, reporting bugs, scripts, ideas are all very welcome and we pay a lot of attention to discourse when we make decisions.
Create a new thread when you get around to it so everyone can contribute
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Dear @CallumSykes
i dont want to point that out too many times, but i really have a weird impression here. ever since you have started meddling with the shortcuts some really regular combinations that as i said often enought work in other apps just fine suddenly dont work in Rhino anymore.
first the alt combinations were corrupted now we are starting with the shift buttons. soon we will end with no shortcuts at all because they all induce something unexplainable?
how do other software developers manages to overcome this seemingly simple issue so thoroughly? and why is Rhino becoming such a sudden roadblock?
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I don’t completely disagree, every time I find something a bit wonky that doesn’t quite work, for example the shift shortcuts which work under some scenarios and not under others I have to do a lot of work to figure out how to avoid wonky-ness on one or more platforms and that often means a ticket for someone smarter than me to investigate and I do something in the meantime. I’d like every shortcut to work ideally.
There’s an open ticket to handle the Alt Keys, we want to re-enable them to prevent any weirdness.
RH-85221 Keyboard Shortcuts are Locale Dependent