From the course: Learning Rhino 6 for Mac
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Gumball tool
- [Instructor] The gumball tool is a multipurpose interface for editing geometry. In this video, we'll go over using the gumball to move, scale, rotate, and duplicate parts of your model. To help us explore, I've got the exercise file navigating-viewports.3dm open. You can find the toggle for the gumball up above the viewport and we activate it just by clicking gumball. Now unless we have something selected, we're not actually going to see anything when we activate that gumball, so let's click on a piece of geometry here. I can see the gumball is this green, blue, and red object that's hovering over the geometry I just selected. So we can turn that off or on with the gumball button above the viewport. So this lets us very intuitively and very quickly make changes to geometry. We can use the different sets of handles on the gumball to make changes. So for example, the arrow handles, let me move side to side,…
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Start window4m 40s
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Menu bar3m 36s
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Viewport2m 10s
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Sidebars3m 43s
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Command icons2m 19s
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Command line4m 49s
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Modeling constraints6m 46s
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Gumball tool3m 31s
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Associative History toggle5m 35s
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Status bar4m 53s
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Rhino themes3m 11s
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Customizing unit and grid settings3m 32s
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Navigating viewports4m 4s
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Customizing viewports6m 29s
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File management6m 17s
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Rhino objects5m 26s
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Selecting objects6m 26s
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Staying organized with layers5m 50s
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Help and troubleshooting5m 56s
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