WISH: Delete All Materials Button

[ShynnSup]

I can’t believe I am saying this but, similar to what Ketchup has… (oh how low have we gone).

Please make it not crash the file. Thanks.

Linking back to this thread:

Why is Rhino so bad at dealing with materials?

I am talking about UX, UI and performance. Performance: 1.It takes ages to load the materials. I don’t know what happens under the hood but of all the 3d programs I use Rhino is the only one struggling to load the materials. It gets specially unworkable with long lists of materials. 2.Scrolling the list is practically impossible. 3.Deleting materials also takes AGES and I just experienced multiple crashes after waiting 20 minutes for Rhino to DELETE ALL materials in the file. 4.Even with on…

[andy (Andrew le Bihan)]

This will be trivial to add. However, Ctrl-A + Delete?

[bjornsmolarek]

Hello,
as I posted in your other topic regarding this subject, this button is not necessarily needed, as it only takes a few clicks.

[ShynnSup]

@andy

Ctrl-A + Delete?

The idea, again mainly because of performance, is to avoid selecting all materials first.

@bjornsmolarek

as I posted in your other topic regarding this subject, this button is not necessarily needed, as it only takes a few clicks.

@bjornsmolarek

To delete all, simply click on the three horizontal lines at the top right, then select all and then click delete

I disagree, if you have to select all materials then you will run into trouble in Rhino.

[bjornsmolarek]

I have never had problems with “select all”, neither in small nor large projects

[ShynnSup]

I think maybe there is an issue with bugs not being really resolved that is why there are so many flying around:

It takes about 4 minutes to delete 400 materials.

Meanwhile Sketchup up does it almost instantly. (same file, from Rhino saved as Skp with textures)

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@ShynnSup

It takes about 4 minutes to delete 400 materials.

I’ve reopened RH-82523 Add a new “Delete all” task to the content editor.
But, as with your other recent post, please provide a 3dm file that behaves the way that you describe. I just created a file with 700+ materials and deleting all takes less than 3 seconds…
-wim

[ShynnSup]

Thanks @wim . I have uploaded the file in question that takes 4 minutes to delete materials. Thanks.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@ShynnSup

I have uploaded the file in question that takes 4 minutes to delete materials.

Thanks! I can reproduce the issue with that file. It takes about 2:30 on my machine.
-wim