Hi all, In the Rhino BETA we’ve focused on fine-tuning the Gumball to improve usability in everyday modeling scenarios. Orientation and Location SubD Modeling is an iterative process or adjusting faces, edges and vertices over and over until finding the right shape. In Rhino 8 and previous versio…

Feature request for Gumball in Rhino 9: A big issue with Gumball (at least in Rhino 7, I don’t have a look at how it performs in Rhino 9 WIP) is that it does not support LOCAL OBJECT GRID snapping when it’s set to “Align to object”. That means that even if I have a perfectly precise box of 10 mm, t…

Another feature request / wish / idea for Gumball: Set point at current Gumball location A while ago (Oct 2022) I proposed an addition to the Gumball that would take next to no efforts to implement, but would be incredibly useful (at least from my point of view, but I guess I am not the only one) … …

Yep, that should be pretty easy to do. I added a note to RH-84505 .

Pascal Golay once made a macro for that: ! _SetRedrawOff _CPlane _Gumball _Point 0 _CPlane _Undo _SetRedrawOn Edit: I just noticed that the macro is actually from the same topic as two posts above.

Yet another feature request: More “0” features! Background: I really like the way entering “0” (zero) is implemented in the Gumball for moving. For those who don’t know yet: 1.) when selecting a Gumball arrow/axis and type 0 and hit enter, the selected item(s) will move so that they go to zero on…

On a preliminary review I can’t find a request for this anywhere else, so going to pile on this thread: It’d be very useful to be able to be able to snap the orientation of the gumball to another nearby object, other than the one selected. When you double-click to relocate it, it’d be neat if you …

I’d love to see an extend mode for the gumball when dragging the object aligned curve endpoint. Consider this example where I drag the endpoint vs extending the curve. Would be really convenient to just shrink and extend the curve. The offsets are parametric, just to show how much it changes…

How about adding one more functionality to the gumball… I’d like to be able to click an arrow type a distance and hold option down to make a copy at the specified distance from the original? I’d also like to be able to be able to slice only selected nurbs and not everything in it’s path Maybe it …

The first part is possible now. If you hold Option / Alt and then click an arrow, you can release option / alt and type a number to create a copy x units away. Also works with rotation and scale gizmos.

Weird, I couldn’t get it to work in RH9 when I was trying just now, but after a restart I can….maybe by install is a little wonky. I’m also have issues with polyline in RH8 where it sometimes wants to do a curved extension when I select polyline… :wink: thanks, anders

Rhino BETA Feature: Gumball Improvements

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Rhino BETA Feature: Gumball Improvements

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