From the course: Rhino 6 Essential Training (2018)
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The versatile Gumball - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino 6 Essential Training (2018)
The versatile Gumball
- [Instructor] It's now time to go on our exciting tour of the gumball. If you've used other 3D software you might be familiar with this tool. If so, it was probably called a gizmo or a manipulator. It's the same general idea of a handle or a gripper. So, what does it do? Well, all kinds of transformations such as moving, rotating, scaling, and a little bit more. Now if your gumball is turned off you do have to select down here in the status line. So select gumball. It should highlight. And now when you select objects in the scene you get the gumball manipulator lighting up. And that's an important point to note here. It's gonna work best when you click on a single object, like these poly surfaces or solids or a single curve, which we'll get to later. Notice when I shift and select other things this is not gonna be as useful, because any rotation I would do would just cause the whole set to kind of fly off into space. So you're pretty much gonna be using a single entity like this…
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