I added this as a macro for the RMB of “Dublipate edge”:
! _DupEdge _Chain
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Color Picker by Dale
Thanks @dale
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some brain numbing constrain tricks brought up and killed by @pascal
Not a Rhino command per se, but something I’ve just picked up which I thought was handy for ease of us. Using Windows Sticky Keys to toggle SHIFT for pesky selections of many items (say getting rid of certain tangent edge curves from a large Make2D result).
I found this accidentally when I prompted this topic: Simple shortcut I'd like to implement
If you hold alt while turning the middle scroll button, you pan in and out instead of zooming. Helps a lot if you’re trying to get a better closeup view of your work. Sometimes you have to deselect all to get it to work, a minor inconvenience.
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thank you~^^
Here is my newest “discovery”, thanks to @pascal (master of the hidden gold), the dialog for setting how Rhino displays curves, which affects how it displays curve patterns:
Just type LinetypeDisplay and then set PatternBySegment=No
And this:
turns into this:
Note: This is NOT a document setting, it’s just a temporary display setting (which is odd) NOR is it sticky (even odder). So the next time you start Rhino and/or open the document you have to set it back.
But it sure beats messing with rebuild when you want a nice, clean print. So let’s hope that McNeel implements it’s setting to the document and places the setting on the same page as linetype scaling etc.
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Nor is it per object or per layer, which would often be useful. I have to agree that I can’t see why this setting isn’t sticky.
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Once I was in my layer structure and managed to press 4 or 5 keys on my keyboard (I was about to fall from my chair, it was very late) at the same time and it reorganised the layers in alphabetical order. I never managed to replicate this event, does anybody knows how to do it as a command?
If you click on the hammer icon in the layers panel, and see that “column sort” is activated (checked), you can click on the column name (in this case “name”), to sort the layers alphabetically by name.
Warning: this is NOT undoable…!
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this needs a rever to ‘last save’ option.
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There should be a thread about the most annoying things in Rhino, that certainly is one of them. I encountered this way to often on accident. I have minimized the problem, by forcing myself of using a nested and slim layer structure.
Hi Helvetosaur,
that’s how I use it on regular basis, but somehow just one time I run the same sorting command from keyboard (not by clicking on the ‘column’ header with the mouse as I usually do) and since I usually re-sort my layer structure many times during the day I asked if somebody is aware of such hotkey. Thanks for the warning but my layer structure is always sorted alphabetically 
This is on the pile as RH-31840 for future reference.
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There is one more ‘hidden’ featureI had no idea exists for all these years working in Rhino 
Maybe it is obvious for everyone, but I just recently ran into this and find it quite useful:
- when Spinning the view with RMB-drag, press/hold SHIFT to limit spin to dominant initial rotation axis
- when Spinning around cursor CTRL+SHIFT+RMB-drag, release SHIFT and press again to limit spin to dominant initial rotation axis
- when Panning the view with SHIFT+RMB-drag, release SHIFT and press/hold again to limit pan to dominant axis
–jarek
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i sincerely hope that such gimmicks keep popping up. a few things to add, i hope i did not miss them being mentioned prior but anyway:
• i have seen @siemen talking about the elevator mode in the beginning, that also works when draging objects with the move command, cmd/ctrl clicking the last point will let you move it up and down like option vertically.
• everybody knows shift for constraining objects orthogonally on plane, use shift cmd/ctrl and you can lock it vertically.
last one
• ever noticed that one letter of a word being underlined in the options? simply input that letter followed by space or enter and you quickly toggle those options on/off.
Was looking for a way to do this, thank you!
I don’t see many Rhino users to take advantage of the “RebuildEdges” command. It will restore the original trimmed or non-trimmed edges of a surface (especially if it’s part of a polysurface) and will vastly reduce the amount of newly added control points of most surfaces that are extruded from- or matched to the surface with rebuilt edges. In order to apply “RebuildEdges” to a surface that’s part of a polysurface, the former must be extracted with “ExtractSrf”, then it could be joined again to the polysurface.
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