Wish - Gumball hotkey toggle

[encephalon]

often if not always do i see myself in situations where the gumball is needed but gets in the way right after some actions. toggling the gumball with a shortcut feels still a bit heavy in the workflow.

now if i could grab a few points or an object which i want to move/scale and have the gumball appear with an additional key like alt which i initiate before or during the action and can simply let go again to hide it would be less distractive.

any opinion?

[onlyforpeace]

There’s a lot of shortcut with gumball,add one more will be difficult for me… But why not…

[encephalon]

yes it has a few, but hotkeys can also be situation dependent.

for example alt on its own does nothing, only during a command it toggles the snaps preliminarily. so if something is selected either entire objects or points and having alt pressed could trigger the gumball. that would not interfere with anything but would be a handy amendment.

alt is of course also used to duplicate objects, but here the object is selected and already in movement before i tap alt, so also not interfering.

[onlyforpeace]

Ok for me!

[martinsiegrist]

you can create a shortcut to toggle the Gumball:

noecho _Gumball _Toggle

I set this to F4

I want to be able to change the alignement too, so I added these four shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+C
noecho -_GumballAlignment _CPlane _Enter

Ctrl+Shift+O
noecho -_GumballAlignment _Object _Enter

Ctrl+Shift+V
noecho -_GumballAlignment _View _Enter

Ctrl+Shift+W
noecho -_GumballAlignment _World _Enter

Align to view only works in Rhino WIP / 7

Under General, Never repeat these commands, I added the following two lines:

Gumball
GumballAlignment
noecho

Check this thread too:

Issue with keyboard shortcut instead of clicking into status bar

I set F4 to toggle the Gumball on and off like this: noecho -_Gumball _Toggle During a recent project I realized it would be amazing if this command or macro did not occur in the command history. Noecho keeps it from appearing in the command line, but what would be really useful was a way to execute this keyboard shortcut while another command is at use. For example you’re drawing a bunch of lines and after two lines you decide to move one of them or just an endpoint with the gumball. F4 to s…

[s.gramotkin.s (SerG_GramS)]

Hi! Who can tell me
Is it possible to use one hotkey combination to switch several types of rubber Gumball instead of four?

Command: GumballAlignment
Gumball alignment ( CPlane Object World View ):

It should be similar as with It should be similar to switching the selection of the bottom edge/vertex '_SubDFaceEdgeVertexToggle

Thanks!

[encephalon]

so i would really like to emphasize that option once more.

i really use the gumball a lot, but specifically in such situations where i select points or other stuff the gumball often gets majorly in the way specifically with all its handles etc obstructing the view to the points i have to select, but would be needed right after that again to move the points. here a hotkey to temporarily hide the gumball with alt (as long as its pressed) or what not would be very helpful.

any further opinions?

[阿诺1 (阿诺)]

It’s working!

[vincente]

I’m hoping someone can help me get Gumball Toggle to work on Mac + Rhino 8 with a Logitech mouse. I have a mouse button set to command+F12 but the old command I used ’ !_Gumball_Toggle=yes’ in Rhino 7 to toggle doesn’t work. noecho _Gumball _Toggle also does not work.

I’m putting this command into the ‘keyboard’ option in global settings and assigning the command+F12 keystroke. Neither the key command nor the mouse work.

I use this shortcut all the time, so it’s seriously frustrating to not have access to it now.