Currently, Rhino is in something like a NURBS-crisis. Alias made a huge progress in the past 20 years, unlike Rhino’s main NURBS surfacing and control point editing tools that are nearly unchanged since Rhino 2 (with a few minor exceptions). The last few versions of Rhino focused more on non-NURBS s…

[image] Bobi: As for the tool you suggested, it’s “Sweep 1 rail” tool with advanced settings. The “Sweep 3 rails” tool should enable picking 3 rails (hence the name), where the middle rail adds an extra control over the overall shape. ic, i checked the web and i assumed that this might be doi…

[image] encephalon: i completely agree, i also pointed that out either quite a few times already, the patch we have now is more than useless, its a waste of time :smiley: ok not fully i like to play with it from time to time. but again playing is all what its good for at most. Y’all are reall…

[image] encephalon: sure, these wishes are pretty well known and well wished for the most part at least as far as i could discern. they can not be pointed out often enough for sure. I believe that the developers will think about implementing these functionalities at some point, because soon e…

[image] JimCarruthers: Y’all are really labouring under the illusion that there exists some mathematically ideal solution to filling in random n-sides patches the main illusion is that hoping this will come true in our life time still. [image] JimCarruthers: but a mushy good-enough appro…

It will be interesting to read the opinion of several Rhino developers and what is their argument for deciding to not work in this direction, i.e. leaving those most important NURBS modeling and editing tools as underdeveloped and inconvenient as they are now. :slight_smile: You can also make an in…

Also, check post #322 and many others in the following topic: [image] VSR end of Life- Rhino It’s pity that Rhino 8 will be so limited in actual progress of its NURBS modeling and editing tools. Here is a detailed topic with many suggestions about “Blend surface” and “Mat…

Many Rhino users are not aware of the ! _ExtrudeCrvAlongCrv command, because its icon is quite inappropriate and located far from the other main tools that use a similar approach. This is why, they struggle to accomplish the desired shape with ! _Sweep1 or ! _Sweep2. In my opinion, its icon must be …

[image] Bobi: There are no U and V markers when working with surfaces with shown control points, or while modifying surfaces, or while extracting isocurves. Even those simple things are missing from the latest Rhino after decades of development. The Cyberstrak plugin now includes UV markers o…

[image] encephalon: the main illusion is that hoping this will come true in our life time still. sadly. bit of naivite is good or not? :grinning:

Maybe I’m confused. If you have a CV selected the UV directions are drawn. It’s subtle, sure, but they are there. [image]

Rhino urgently needs these tools!

Rhino

Rhino_Bulgaria (Bobi) August 20, 2024, 4:14pm 9

Also, check post #322 and many others in the following topic:

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Bugs in Rhino 6 + suggestions for the BlendSrf command Rhino for Windows	63	4689	October 21, 2025
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Rhino 9 Feature : Multi-sided surface patches Serengeti (Rhino BETA)	59	4071	March 26, 2025
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Rhino urgently needs these tools!

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