frequent unnecessary duplications causing instability

[ronviers]

Since alt+lmb is tumble in maya (the most common thing to do) and is ‘duplicate selected’ in groboto, I constantly duplicate arbitrary selections, then either ‘undo’ or delete the result of the duplication - this often causes groboto to crash.
It would be nice to have an override for that operation, and even nicer would be a mode that made dolly, tumble and track work the way it does in maya.

thanks

[davidgoerndt]

I run into that a lot. Yesterday I was working on a model and accidentally duplicated several objects without realizing it, no crash, but Groboto refused to trim and mesh one object until I deleted the extra objects. Modo uses the Alt -LMB as rotate so I often get a dup while working in Groboto.

[ronviers]

I run into that a lot. Yesterday I was working on a model and accidentally duplicated several objects without realizing it, no crash, but Groboto refused to trim and mesh one object until I deleted the extra objects. Modo uses the Alt -LMB as rotate so I often get a dup while working in Groboto.

that makes me think that it may be useful to mention that I am using windows groboto v3.0.6 x64

It would be fine with me if groboto's duplicate used ctr+d like most other apps. I would recommend breaking with tradition only when necessary.

thanks

[boris]

ronviers, David,

We certainly want to add user preference where Alt and Control would be swapped. There are indeed many programs where Alt is used for camera control.

As far as using Control-D for duplication - that's fine, we should just add this keyboard shortcut to the existing Edit menu command for duplication. Still, it's not a substitute for Alt-Mouse Drag (or Control-Mouse Drag with the above preference in the future) - it's very convenient to duplicate and move (or rotate) with one mouse move, when creating small translated or rotated arrays of objects.

[ronviers]

did this get fixed? i don't want to reinstall it if it hasn't