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The radial Poly wheel

A gesture-driven quick menu that puts the right modeling tools under your cursor without a trip to the menu bar.

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The radial Poly wheel is the fast way to model: a circular menu that pops up under your cursor with exactly the tools that fit your current mode.

  1. Open it

    While in component mode, hold right-click on the viewport for a moment. The wheel appears around your cursor.

  2. Aim

    Move the cursor toward the spoke you want — the center label shows what's under it.

  3. Fire

    Release right-click over a spoke to run that tool. Press Esc to cancel without doing anything.

What's on the wheel

The wheel always shows four type spokes — Object / Vertex / Edge / Face — so you can switch modes mid-flow, plus the common tools for your current mode (the primary tool is highlighted):

ModeTools on the wheel
FaceSubdivide · Inset · Extrude · Poke · Delete
EdgeMulti Loop · Bevel · Loop Cut · Dissolve · Delete
VertexConnect · Smooth · Chamfer · Weld · Delete
The wheel's hold time is adjustable If it pops up too eagerly (or not eagerly enough), the long-press duration is a per-scene setting. Tune it in Settings.
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