I’m a Blender and Blenderartists.org newbie with a problem and I would greatly appreciate a bit of help with scaling. I’m slowly working my way through some tutorials but none seem to have an answer to the present problem that I have…
I’ve imported an assembly into Blender, a kind of robotic dinosaur.
What I want to do is create a kind of master version of this and then make copies which I can edit. That way all the copies will have the same orientation and scale as the master copy.
So I am trying to scale it accurately but I’m having trouble doing that precisely. My method is to select one object that has a length parallel with one of the main axes, x,y or z and then select the whole assembly and scale it and then check the new length of the object. I’ve got quite close but it is not especially precise method.
I’d pretty much do what you do. Not tried this, so dunno if it’s doable, but if you know the actual dimension of the whole thing, from topmost vertex to lowest, in theory, you should be able to scale based on that.
Roughly, my thinking is this, get your topmost & lowest vertex, likewise your width/depth. Create a ‘bounding box’ for these vertexes and separate the result as an object. As I am not sure if you can size directly for a face in edit mode, in object mode, select the main mesh, then the new bounding box, Ctrl+J to join them. Once that is done, you can select your bounding box and scale that precisely editing the dimensions values. Go into edit mode, separate the bounding box and in theory, your original object should be the right size. Then Ctrl+A to apply scale to the final result, I think.
I’m sure a more experienced person will wade in as I am a newbie myself, so could be talking rubbish, or taking the “long way around”.