When I want to rotate something very precisely with the gumball, I want to create a long “tiller” for the gumball rotater by dragging it away from the gumball. But while doing that my object starts rotating before I reach the desired lenght of my “tiller”. That makes it hard to see a small differ…

Is not it more straightforward to just use ! _Orient for this operation? :slight_smile: This way, you can even snap the object to another object or to the CPlane grid.

I also think that this idea for expanding the ark handle is great, especially that the extension of the scale handle length is already implemented in the exact same way with using the Ctrl key and dragging. I would suggest to have an option to keep that extended secondary arc handle permanently sho…

[image] Rhino_Bulgaria: the extension of the scale handle length is already implemented in the exact same way with using the Ctrl key and dragging. …this is what concerns me Why a specific manipulation that can be done with the Scale Handles cannot be reproduced with the Arc Handles ? From …

The Gumball size can be adjusted in the settings. The ability to increase the size of the arc on the fly is obsolete since you can already just move your mouse pointer further away from the center of rotation.

But currently we can’t simultaneously have rotation increments divided by 1 and 5 degrees. :slight_smile: Or, one arc handle to use incremental rotation, while the other is totally free. Unless you activate “Drag strength” at 20% and “Grid snap” simultaneously. However, that causes annoying problem…

Yes, but the difference with rotate is that with gumball the object is already rotating before the endpoint of the handle is picked. And that is what I miss the most, being able to pick the endpoint of the handle before anything starts to rotate

Yes things are happening in real time but isn’t that the case with mostly everything you do with the gumball except maybe numerical inputs?

Hi @martinsiegrist [image] martinsiegrist: The ability to increase the size of the arc on the fly is obsolete since you can already just move your mouse pointer further away from the center of rotation. Would you mind showing up that manipulation using the Gumball ? Regards Rodolfo Santos

In the video below I’m first keeping the mouse close to the center of rotation. It is difficult to rotate just by a small increment because of the resolution of the mouse. When moving the mouse further away from the center of rotation, it becomes easier to rotate just a tiny bit. In addi…

[image] martinsiegrist: In the video below I’m first keeping the mouse close to the center of rotation. It is difficult to rotate just by a small increment because of the resolution of the mouse. When moving the mouse further away from the center of rotation, it becomes easier to rotate just a t…

Wish Gumball rotate

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RodolfoSantos (Rodolfo Santos) April 15, 2021, 7:52am 24

Ok, thank you for the time spent and the shared contents, instructive…

I feel like ‘Gumballed’ here because I cannot figure out how to reproduce what is shown on your video ?

Using Rhino 7 for Mac
Version 7 (7.5.21096.11002, 2021-04-06)

I admit this this is an acceptable partial answer regarding the wish expressed by @PodoTools .

Regards
Rodolfo Santos

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