Hi Rhino community, SketchUp refugee here. After SketchUp’s recent “updates,” I’m looking for a new home — and Rhino looks very promising! I’ve already got navigation and shortcuts feeling somewhat SketchUp-like (big thanks to ChatGPT), but there’s still one thing bugging me: In Rhino, pressing …

Such feature is under development for the next version. [image] Rhino 9 Feature : Instant Aliases (hot keys) Serengeti (Rhino WIP) Give your spacebar a break. The latest Rhino 9 WIP has a new feature called “Instant Aliases”. Any alias can be made instant in that it imme…

You can also use the spacebar in lieu of enter. That may feel a little more efficient depending on the key you are pressing.

…which is going to be a complete mess that won’t work. The whole concept is bunk.

[image] Bogdan Demchenko: In Rhino, pressing a shortcut like R still needs an Enter. In SketchUp, it’s just one tap and you’re flying. You know how Rhino works, right? How is that possibly supposed to work? How do you distinguish between “R” as a shortcut and “r” as the start of one of the do…

[image] JimCarruthers: …which is going to be a complete mess that won’t work. The whole concept is bunk. i really love that feature, it just works better in the testcommand on the mac v8 currently without any hick ups, there you unfortunately have to turn it on each time you start a new sessi…

[image] JimCarruthers: You know how Rhino works, right? How is that possibly supposed to work? How do you distinguish between “R” as a shortcut and “r” as the start of one of the dozens of commands that start with it? All the proposals how to do it are TERRIBLE, contrary to all tenets User Inter…

[image] Bogdan Demchenko: If Rhino introduced a “lightweight mode” for speed and simplicity, it could open up a huge opportunity. No we can see the results of the efforts so far to copy Sketchup and it’s been users who have no understanding of the fundamentals of NURBS modeling–which is ENTI…

[image] Bogdan Demchenko: it’s small, fast, and easy, like a city car. It feels more like a cross breed between driving a Honda with vtec going 0-60 km/h in 18 seconds and a Subaru: enjoyable to drive but damn those warning lights come on offten after warranty. Sometimes it can be a hellcat …

I agree with Jim. I’ll add that the right mouse button defaults to mapping the Enter key. I can type a letter, then right click and done. I don’t recall seeing anyone else mention this on the forum, but here’s what I do to get single key functionality. I’ve got 3 gaming keyboard/mouse devices tha…

Love folks who want features from software they know longer want to run. They cherry pick out some “features” that need to be implemented because they are sooooo much better. Tell ya what I think about “shortcut keys”. They suck in all applications. I run a LOT of different programs, they all ha…

Trying to Make Rhino as Snappy as SketchUp — Any Tips?

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Toni_Osterlund April 6, 2025, 8:11am 2

Such feature is under development for the next version.

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