I am surprised that INSET (and/or OUTSET) doesn’t seem to work on a free-floating Face, although it works fine on any Face that is connected to a more Faces.
I was hoping that the OUTSET option would allow me to extend the outer edges of a Face, but that doesn’t seem to work. How would one extend the outer edge of either a single Face, eg a hexagon, or collectively the outer Edges of a patch of Face?
I’m sure inset works on a single face, outset would probably be extrude and scale… E key then S key?
“Sure”? Did you test it? It works on ONE CONNECTED face, but not on a one, sole, free-floating face, eg make a cylinder, delete all but the top, try to Inset.
If you select all the edges around the single Face, Extrude, and Scale, it generates extraneous geometry coincident with the original face, that if you move you see that it’s now a volume, not a 2d patch with more peripheral Faces.
You have to exclude the Z-axis with Shift-z.
So, scale along x and y, without z
Pretty sure it’s still generating excess geometry. (As in, I just tried it. Again.)
For this kind of behavior, you should use the offset edges function of the mesh tools addons.
Inset works just fine with one face. You can’t outset with only one face because outset basically just adds a loop cut. With no extra geometry you can’t add a loop cut. The best you could do is scale that single face and then inset it by the correct amount.
Example:
Or, maybe, duplicate the outer edge-loop and then scale it up. Select both edge-loops and bridge them.
Yep, also a good way.
