The main goal of the radial menus is to provide quicker access to tools.
And I'm sure lots of people who at times have a need to do a lot of repeating tasks in parts of their project will no doubt benefit much from such a feature.
Over the last year I've lost access to SolidWorks and since I'm leaning towards doing animation over my previous venture of designing products with 3d printing I've decided I am going to invest in the full version of HoudiniFX rather than a release of SolidWorks.
But I still want to do occassional 3d printing for personal use and decided to dive into the less expensive software of Rhino.
So the last month I'be been getting up to speed on modelling in Rhino and in the process started building up my own menu bars that have the tools I most often and repeatedly use. And with Rhino there are many steps you have to do that are very repeatative to get what you want - at least for what I want to design.
In seeing the radial menu that is custamizable on this recent streaming presentation, I thought, wow this would be a very big time saver in Rhino.
When you work with a large monitor and are visually oriented and better suited to using a mouse over keyboard shortcuts, a well designed radial menu does indeed let you move along much more quickly.
There are many cases I can see where the radial menu won't be of much use especially when your doing working that is ‘exploratory’; Meaning you just don't know what steps your going to be taking.
But with the new Boolean tools and radial menu….hmmm….will have to see how well and quickly I can come up to speed with modeling in Houdini.
Looks promising indeed.
