I like to think of the numpad like a little cube or pyramid with the sides as views. I don’t mind having to use modifier keys also (CTRL, whatever). 5: Top, 4: Left, 6: Right, 2: Front, and so on. What I want to achieve is to use the NumPad for viewport switching (Top, Front, Left,…), like I do in various other 3D programs. Yet for some reason, assigning commands in Rhino Options > Keyboard to CTRL-1,2,3,4,5,… works on the normal number keys, but not in the NumPad. With NumLock on, the NumPad is just another way to enter numbers, right? Wish: support for Keyboard shortcuts on Numpad Rhino for Windows Of course Rhino’s interface is kind of…outdated and awful, but there is simply no more modern paradigm that actually fits with its scale. 99.99% of requests to improve Rhino’s interface over the last 25 years have gone nowhere primarily due to ignorance of this. Rhino has MANY, many tools–on top of which it’s a development platform you are encouraged to expand upon–and MANY different users in different fields with completely different workflows and priorities as to what should be a “top level” one-shot button and what should be hidden away in a context menu or whatever. When I watch YouTubers at work editing their videos, it’s interesting that the real pros usually have extra keyboards and StreamDecks and what have you strewn with macros, and I wonder, gee is that something I would find useful? And the answer is not really, there’s just no need to make a dedicated button to CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F, I can just start typing FlowAlongSrf and oh there it is. Your solution to too many "L"s is Alt-L? You’re aware you can already do that in Rhino, right? Numeric input is pretty important in Rhino, how is overriding the numpad supposed to work? How is context-sensitivity any kind of magic bullet when it reduces the number of available options from “everything” to “merely enormous?” Just putting it out there because despite Blender awesome as a modeling program (I wont even get into how amazing non destructive modifiers are for the time being), Rhino is still my go to for documenting my models and for creating watertight models for 3d printing. I would love to see Rhino steal Blender’s best ideas like the single key commands and popup menus. And maybe not get stuck in an antiquated way of doing things just because “that’s how we’ve been doing it since day one” mentality…that’s as dangerous to evolution as “if it aint broke, dont fix it”. I think Rhino should continue to evolve and not assume it’s perfected it’s workflow. Right click to bring up a menu of options relevant only to the item(s) selected (wont show you options that wont work for that selected object/surface). Shft A and Shft S bring up different menus for adding objects, selection options, etc. How they deal with other commands is through pop up menus, which is very fast. I’d recommend you try blender for a while to see what I mean–but it will take you some time to get comfortable with it…you probably wont like it at first because it will seem counterintuitive. It’s a waste of keystrokes.Īs I just responded to Nathan, if you haven’t experienced a one keystroke command workflow, it’s hard to explain just how much better it is. Why for example do I have to hit enter after each command typed? Why cant I just hit L and I can immediately draw a line? There’s no good reason for the need to hit enter every time. PLEASE tell me there’s a way I can set this in Rhino 6. Lastly, just the fact that you dont have to hit enter after each command in blender makes it so much faster and somehow better to work in. That’s four strokes that can be done in one. This is so much faster than commands: z, enter, s, enter. Is it possible to set number pad keys to automatically set view upon press (meaning no need to hit enter):Īnd holding shift while click these does the opposite (shft+numpad 3 = left, 7 = bottom, etc)Īlso, hitting the numpad period key automatically zooms to the selected object. I hate having to constantly switch between views and I dont like having multiple smaller windows open for multiple views.
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