New Rhino Interface Concept

By: Ufuk Bircan Özkan on Monday, April 16, 2012

Rhino 5 users know it has many interface improvements according to the previous version. Tabbed interface and sidebars were the most important ones so far.
The custom workspace mode I prepared for Rhino 4 is here. If you get the idea, you will see how I got close to Rhino 5's tabbed toolbars while there were no betas around. (WIP was being developped but I was not using it those days.)
Now I'm working on a new interface which is based on pop-up toolbars. This interface prevents toolbars to take space while modelling on viewports and maximize the workspace. Here are the mock-up toolbar images:

This is standard toolbar view:

And this is the pop-upped view:

 

As you can see, pop-upped version of the toolbar is not sized correctly. This is a bug in the latest Rhino 5 Beta. I hope it will be solved in next releases.
When a button is clicked, it will popup the related toolbar instead of the parent. Buttons may be re-organized or re-grouped in the future. Your feedbacks will be useful for me to make it more user-friendly. I will be announcing the milestones here in future posts. Keep following ;)