diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 21f8e79768..54ad765b77 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 ### Changed
+* Updated `ViewerSceneObject` with hash ability in order to catch the update from `settings`.
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/compas_viewer/components/color.py b/src/compas_viewer/components/color.py
index 48b4b7a7af..82a8f0d0e3 100644
--- a/src/compas_viewer/components/color.py
+++ b/src/compas_viewer/components/color.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+from PySide6.QtCore import Qt
 from PySide6.QtGui import QColor
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QColorDialog
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QPushButton
@@ -180,8 +181,10 @@ def __init__(
         default_color = QColor(*remap_rgb(default_color, to_range_one=False))
 
         self.color_button = QPushButton(self)
+        self.color_button.setMaximumSize(70, 25)
         self.layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
         self.layout.addWidget(self.color_button)
+        self.layout.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
         self.color_button.clicked.connect(self.open_color_dialog)
         self.set_button_color(default_color)
 
diff --git a/src/compas_viewer/components/sceneform.py b/src/compas_viewer/components/sceneform.py
index 76f39c0356..7abe68a629 100644
--- a/src/compas_viewer/components/sceneform.py
+++ b/src/compas_viewer/components/sceneform.py
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ def scene(self):
         return self.viewer.scene
 
     def update(self):
-        if list(self.scene.objects) == self._sceneobjects:
+        current_scene_objects = [hash(obj) for obj in self.scene.objects]
+        if current_scene_objects == self._sceneobjects:
             for node in self.scene.traverse("breadthfirst"):
                 widget = node.attributes.get("widget")
                 if widget:
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ def update(self):
                         self.scrollToItem(widget)
 
         else:
-            self._sceneobjects = list(self.scene.objects)
+            self._sceneobjects = [hash(obj) for obj in self.scene.objects]
 
             self.clear()
             self.checkbox_columns = {}
diff --git a/src/compas_viewer/components/slider.py b/src/compas_viewer/components/slider.py
index 1b085f9102..cd6670fe52 100644
--- a/src/compas_viewer/components/slider.py
+++ b/src/compas_viewer/components/slider.py
@@ -99,11 +99,11 @@ def __init__(
         self._min_label = QLabel(str(self.min_val), alignment=Qt.AlignLeft)
         self._max_label = QLabel(str(self.max_val), alignment=Qt.AlignRight)
         self.value_label = QLabel(f"{self.title}:")
-        self.text_edit = TextEdit(str(self.starting_val))
-        self.text_edit.text_edit.textChanged.connect(self.text_update)
+        self.text_widget = TextEdit(str(self.starting_val))
+        self.text_widget.text_edit.textChanged.connect(self.text_update)
 
         self._text_layout.addWidget(self.value_label)
-        self._text_layout.addWidget(self.text_edit.text_edit)
+        self._text_layout.addWidget(self.text_widget.text_edit)
 
         # Add widgets to layout
         self._domain_layout.addWidget(self._min_label)
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def on_value_changed(self, value):
             return
         self._updating = True
         scaled_value = round(value * self.step, 2)
-        self.text_edit.text_edit.setText(str(scaled_value))
+        self.text_widget.text = str(scaled_value)
         if self.action:
             self.action(self, scaled_value)
         self._updating = False
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def text_update(self):
             return
         self._updating = True
         try:
-            value = float(self.text_edit.text_edit.toPlainText()) / self.step
+            value = float(self.text_widget.text) / self.step
             self.slider.setValue(value)
             if self.action:
                 self.action(self, value * self.step)
diff --git a/src/compas_viewer/components/textedit.py b/src/compas_viewer/components/textedit.py
index bf34df8171..f2571c929f 100644
--- a/src/compas_viewer/components/textedit.py
+++ b/src/compas_viewer/components/textedit.py
@@ -20,15 +20,24 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.text_edit = QTextEdit()
         self.text_edit.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOff)
-        self.text_edit.setMaximumSize(85, 25)
+        self.text_edit.setMaximumSize(70, 25)
         self.text_edit.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Fixed, QSizePolicy.Fixed)
-        self.text_edit.setText(text)
+        self.text = text
 
         self.layout = self.default_layout
         self.layout.setAlignment(Qt.AlignCenter)
         self.layout.addWidget(self.text_edit)
         self.setLayout(self.layout)
 
+    @property
+    def text(self) -> str:
+        return self.text_edit.toPlainText()
+
+    @text.setter
+    def text(self, text: str) -> None:
+        self.text_edit.setText(text)
+        self.text_edit.setAlignment(Qt.AlignRight)
+
     @property
     def default_layout(self):
         if self._default_layout is None:
diff --git a/src/compas_viewer/scene/sceneobject.py b/src/compas_viewer/scene/sceneobject.py
index b7d1d7f543..e56df0da13 100644
--- a/src/compas_viewer/scene/sceneobject.py
+++ b/src/compas_viewer/scene/sceneobject.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def __init__(
     ):
         #  Basic
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.kwargs = kwargs
         self.show = show
         self.show_points = show_points if show_points is not None else False
         self.show_lines = show_lines if show_lines is not None else True
@@ -128,6 +129,11 @@ def __init__(
 
         self._inited = False
 
+    def __hash__(self):
+        # Convert self.settings.items() to a hashable type (e.g., frozenset) but convert Color objects to tuples
+        hashable_settings = frozenset((key, (value.rgb255 if isinstance(value, Color) else value)) for key, value in self.settings.items())
+        return hash(hashable_settings)
+
     @property
     def bounding_box(self):
         return self._bounding_box