Similar commands

Why do we need multiple commands that do the same thing to different types of geometry?

For example there’s Offset, Offsetmesh, Offsetsrf. It would be great if I could just hit offset and rhino would know what to do based on the selected geometry. It would make working with keyboard shortcuts much easier.

Hello - the ganging of commands makes selection more complicated - you might need to answer the select-one-object question, for example, and since the path through the options varies a lot according to the what is being offset, macros may be more, and not less, tricky - basically you’d need to separate things out at the macro level instead of the command level. I think the advantages are often more ‘on paper’ than real.

-Pascal

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