It seems that some tool options get saved for the next time you use them, while other options do not. For example, I use Extrude a lot, with the ‘Both Sides’ and ‘Solid’ boxes checked. However, the next time I do an Extrude, the ‘Solid’ box is no longer checked. The ‘Both Sides’ box is checked however. Why do some options get remembered and others do not? It would be better to have Rhino remember all tool options a user checks, at least within one Rhino session. Or maybe there’s already a Preference for this - ?
Hi David- it can depend on how you access the tools- some are macroed with the options in place, if you get them from a button or menu item - my guess is that is what you are seeing.
e.g. Extrude planar curve from the Solid menu has Solid in the macro, but Extrude curve > straight in the Surface menu has it explicitly set to No. Both run ExtrudeCrv and will leave their option choices in place. I am on Windows at the moment but I think what I wrote is correct for the mac as well.
Thanks Pascal. Yes, I’m accessing Extrude from the ‘Standard’ tool palette in the left vertical panel. Giving the tools default settings - depending on where they are accessed from - is definitely a good idea. It just seems that if a user starts changing these settings during one Rhino session, the software should remember the user’s changes. Currently it defaults back to its own hard-coded choices, even though some options (like ‘Both Sides’) do get remembered.
-david
Well, there is only one command, say for ExtrudeCrv, so if you run it by typing it will remember what you set last time, but once you get it from a menu or button that has some of the options set explicitly, those options will now remember that usage, so to speak, until changed again. Bothsides is not an option that is set in the default menu entries but Solid is. Dunno if that clarifies or muddies…