Why is the gumball for these edge loops almost always facing such wierd directions? I don’t expect it to be perfect, but even just a reasonable approximation of the geometry would be fine. Can this be improved or is this just how it is? I’m constantly having to realign the gumball to work with geome…

There’s also no memory of changes to gumball. I’m making rotation and scale adjustments to those edge loops and every single time I need to re-orient the gumball to rotate those loops rougly on their plane. How do you work like this or am I missing something?

Also if I relocate the gumball then use the gumball and undo the operation it also resets the gumball. Why!? This is so tedious & fiddly to work with.

Is this something that’s going to be improved in V9 or is this not an issue for anyone?

Hi @ftzuk , Sub-object selection sets don’t recall a custom GB alignment as you know. This is something I’ve been lobbying for internally and I’ll bring your request to the developer’s attention that is working in this area as well here ( @Joshua_Kennedy ). The by object alignment on these edge lo…

Dear @BrianJ please see this topic as well [image] (Wish) Gumball Location, _GumballRelocate with different Options Rhino [image] Above the most simple case that annoys me: select 3 of 6 CVs of the black Hexagon. Gumball Position is calculated as center of …

SUBD edge loop gumball improvement

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brian (Brian Gillespie) April 21, 2026, 10:16pm 9

RH-86215 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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SUBD edge loop gumball improvement

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