Gumball

Gumball

Quickly Move, Rotate, Scale, Extend, Copy, Cut, and Extrude geometry in the viewport.

Gumball: A Widget for Manipulating Geometry

Modify geometry without typing commands or clicking a toolbar button. The Gumball is a versatile direct modeling tool for concept modeling interior and exterior architecture forms, furniture, SciFi models, and working with SubD objects.

Gumball Actions

  • Move: move selected geometry freely or using a specific distance.
  • Rotate: rotate selected geometry freely or using an angle.
  • Scale: scale selected geometry freely or using a scale factor.
  • Copy: copy selected geometry by pressing Alt as you move the selection.
  • Cut: split by dragging a curve through an object.
  • Boss: emboss any shape curve by dragging it onto an object.
  • Extrude: extrude any curve or face freely or to a specific distance.
  • Extend: extend adjacent faces while moving or rotating it.

Keep Your Walls Straight
New in V9

Enable Rotate-Extend by holding down ctrl + shift as you drag the Rotate handle . Rotate a face and have adjacent faces extend in their own natural direction.

Previously faces would follow the rotation angle and appear (correctly) skewed.

Relocation Remembered
New in V9

The Gumball now remembers its orientation and location for SubD Sub-Object Selections and Groups. This is a time-saver when working back and forth with selection sets and multiple objects.

Previously relocating the Gumball on a multiple selection would not be remembered.

Combine it with UndoSelection…

Intuitive Use

An improved user-experience that guides you through its use:

Snappy / Smooth Mode
New in V9

The Gumball menu ball changes from a circle to a diamond shape as a visual cue to which drag mode it’s in.

Dynamic Relocate

Relocating and reorienting the Gumball is now done by double-clicking any of the handles.

Tooltips

The Gumball has been made more accessible to both new and existing users. Tooltips explain the function of each handle and show the various key presses to change the function.

Simplified Keypresses

The double function of the Ctrl key (Cmd key on Mac) has been eliminated, making the Gumball functions easier to memorize.

Try It

In this exercise, try the Gumball Rotate-Extend mode.

  1. Download Rhino 8 Evaluation for Windows or Mac.
  2. Download gumball-rotate-extend.3dm in Rhino .
  3. Activate the Gumball .
  4. Sub-Object Select one of the vertical faces.
  5. Hold down + while dragging the Gumball Rotate handle. Then, let go.
  6. The face has been rotated while adjacent faces extend without deforming!
  7. Try it on your own! Experiment with your own models.
  8. Share comments and feedback on the Rhino Forum.

Gumball in Action

Gumball_Coffee_Table.3dm

Rhino Commands