What is Gumball Control Polygon Alignment? In the Rhino BETA , the Gumball now has a new Control Polygon alignment mode. In this mode the gumball aligns to the control polygon when control points are selected. This alignment matches the directions used by the MoveUVN panel. When you manipulate the Gu…

Since I last checked (march?) this feature seems to have gotten worse… [SubdGimabll] Is a toggle I missed to get the arrows to align to the control polygon? EDIT: Wait, hello… things are really funky now… [SubdGimabll2]

The position of the Gumball should align and update to the new location of the control points, including when the smoothness state of the SubD model is changed from rough to smooth, and vice versa.

@eobet turning on control points should give you a far better experience than using the edit points. Much more compatible with how other mesh modelers work as well. That doesn’t take away the fact that Gumball experience on edit points needs improvement.

An easy solution for this is to simply re-align the Gumball upon taping the Tab key that switches the smooth state of the SubD geometry. Rhino 9 BETA already does that manually when the control polygon is visible (through the ! _PointsOn command) and the SubD is rendered smooth. The user is allowed…

[image] Gijs de Zwart: turning on control points should give you a far better experience than using the edit points. Much more compatible with how other mesh modelers work as well. The edit cage is too distracting. Also, the only other mesh modeler I currently use is Blender, and I enable the…

If this is possible, is there any reason we can’t have multiple simultaneous UVN gumballs? Like, grab several subD faces, turn on multigumball, and pull on any of the multiple gumballs’ N handle, and instantly raise a bunch of bumps or spikes?

[image] eobet: The edit cage is too distracting. Also, the only other mesh modeler I currently use is Blender, and I enable the subdivision modifier in edit mode there as well, so I don’t have to ever see the cage. I don’t follow this. If I have a mesh in Blender with SubD modifier and want t…

@eobet yes I found that button, but couldn’t figure out how to align the gumball to it. The gumball on my end stayed aligned to the box mesh vert.

Since Blender has 1 button modal shortcut keys, I don’t need a gumball in Blender :wink: (the gumball itself can also be distracting when you’re tweaking shapes).

Rhino BETA Feature: Gumball Control Polygon Alignment

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Rhino BETA Feature: Gumball Control Polygon Alignment

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