Long distance component moves difficult

Lots of GUI talk here lately, so here's one: If there could be some method of cut/copying, and then pasting into the current window on the canvas (as opposed to immediate vicinity of the original cut/copy). If we desire ctrl-V to function as is, then maybe ctrl-alt-V or ctrl-shift-V would paste into current window?

Right now, I'll zoom out until components are very small, click-drag on the biggest visible component, and then let go and right-click-pan until component almost off screen, then repeat as necessary. But many times I'll click wrong and resize components or change a slider value or deselect.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 2, 2010 at 7:20am

Chris,

in the meantime, I usually start the drag, then mousewheel out, mousewheel in on the other location and then release the object. Not ideal though.

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on January 2, 2010 at 7:29am

Ahh. That works better than my microscopic click drag.

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on January 2, 2010 at 9:56am

What would be nice would be if dragging towards the edge would actually pan automatically. That way there's no crazy mouse-click jumbling.

Permalink Reply by FrankS on January 2, 2010 at 11:18am

spacemouse support could also help here ;-)
since you can grab and hold a bunch of components with the mouse and zoom/pan with the other hand. works great in rhino already.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/3d-mouse-wish

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on January 2, 2010 at 1:38pm

Yes... As long as it doesn't go all superfast like in photoshop.

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