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More than 50 interface
enhancements.
General ( new,
 enhanced)
- CommandHelp - Floating or docked context-sensitive help window that changes depending on
the active command.
- Context menus - Right-click context menus
can be customized.
- Clipboard - Supports both v3 and
v4 file formats.
- Cursor tooltips - Cursor tooltips
optionally place information at the cursor location, including the
command prompt, osnap, distance, coordinates, and/or relative
coordinates.
- Grips - Grips have be added to blocks.
- Help - New format with video clips.
- MPlane - Sets the
construction plane to a selected object.
- Nudge - Supports view-based direction
and UVN direction.
- Status line - Shows more details while
in commands.
- Text editing - Double-click text, dots,
leaders, and dimensions to edit the text.
- Construction planes - Universal
option synchronizes construction planes so that they share
the same origin and are always perpendicular to each other.
- Undo - Honors the "number of undos" setting even if
it conflicts with the "use memory" setting.
Layers ( new,
enhanced)
- Layer - Supports hierarchical layer
organization.
- LayerStateManager - The layer state manager dialog
box
lets you select what layer features you want to restore.
Toolbars ( new,
enhanced)
- Button images - Updated look.
- Button size - Two button sizes are
included: 24x24 and 32x32.
- Button text - Buttons can now have an image,
text, or both.
- Locking - The toolbar layout can now be
locked.
- Toolbar layout - Right-click a blank spot in
the toolbar docking area to turn on, off, or lock the toolbars.
Point picking ( new,
enhanced)
- SmartTrack™ - System of temporary reference
lines and points drawn in the Rhino viewport using
relationships among various 3-D points, other geometry in
space, and the coordinate axes' directions. Video...
Object snaps ( new,
enhanced)
- ALT key - Press the ALT key to temporarily
enable or disable object snaps when Rhino is prompting for a
point.
- End object snap -
- Has a higher priority than Perp and Tan.
- When more than one endpoint is found, the one
closest to the user's point of view is selected.
- Also finds kinks.
- Int object snap - Works on blocks.
- Object snap toolbar - More compact.
- OnPolySrf - Snap to and track over a
polysurface for one pick.
- PersistentOnCrv - Snap to and track along a
selected curve.
- PersistentOnSrf - Snap to and track over a
surface.
- PersistentOnPolySrf - Snap to and track over a
polysurface.
- SnapSize - Adjust the snap increment
during a command.
- Text insertion point - Can be snapped to when
points are on.
Object selection ( new,
enhanced)
- Deselect - Ctrl+Left-click only deselects
objects, it never selects.
- Select - Shift+Left+click now always adds, never removes objects from selection.
- Lasso - Draw with click and
drag and polyline method. Right-mouse button view manipulation
has been added.
- Multi-select pop-up - Displays the object
type, color, name, or group name.
- SelBox - Selects all objects whose
bounding box crosses or is inside the box.
- SelCaptive - Selects captives of a cage
control.
- SelChain - Selects all curves whose ends
share position, tangent, or curvature. Supported by many commands
that use curve input.
- SelControls - Selects CageEdit control
objects.
- SelDot - Selects dot objects.
- SelDim - Selects only dimensions. It
no longer selects text, leaders, or dots.
- SelDup - Finds duplicate
dimensions and points.
- SelLast - Clears the current
selection first. -SelLast provides a command line
option to turn off this behavior.
- SelLeader - Selects leaders.
- SelPt - Now select all the control
points when on.
- SelPrev - Clears the current selection
first. -SelPrev provides a command line option to turn
off this behavior.
- SelMaterialName - Selects all objects with the
same render material name.
- SelText - Selects all text.
- SelVisible - New option to use the
whole viewport.
- SelChildren - Selects child objects of the
currently selected objects.
- SelParents - Selects parent objects of the
currently selected objects.
- SelObjectsWithHistory - Selects all objects that
have parents (all child objects).
- Sub group - Select surfaces inside groups
by holding Ctrl+Shift when clicking the object.
- Sub-object - Select surfaces inside
polysurfaces by holding Ctrl+Shift when clicking the object.
- Sweep1/Sweep2: Press Ctrl + left mouse button to deselect the last segment selected by ChainEdges.
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