Not sure what your point is, but in Solidworks (the app I’m used to), there are also a huge amount of ways you can build the same thing, but unlike Alias, it has an excellent UI, and gets better and slicker with every release (I’m still on 2009, but that was a huge improvement over 2008, with the context sensitive quick tool popups that displayed the most common and relevant actions you might want to perform on the thing you just clicked on).
In alias, however, I even find the radial menus cumbersome (which people hail as proof that Alias does indeed update its UI), and I’ve opted to map single stroke hotkeys for my most common used actions instead (C for CV, N for nothing and M for move, for example).
Which brings me to my next question:
Spacebar, the largest key on the keyboard… is it used by anything in Alias by default?
Not sure how to map it to anything either (I’d like to map it to “pan” so I don’t have to press two bloody modification buttons in order to just scroll a viewport).