There is a way. After you extrude, with the faces still selected hit F to make the quads ngons, change the pivot to individual origins and scale the faces as you like(to get that Vshape). After scalling, hit Ctrl+T to triangulate the ngons and Alt+J to make them quads again. Good luck!
There is an easier way with a two step scaling process (while in face selection mode, right after pressing “E-KEY” to extrude, and then “ENTER-KEY” to set the extruded faces):
while scaling with the “S-Key,” press “Z-Key”
scale again with the “S-Key,” this time using “SHIFT-Z”
A single shortcut no, well I’m not aware of any…but you have them like this:
-pivot around 3D cursor- " . " (dot key)
-pivot around bounding box center- " , " (comma key)
-pivot around each object’s own origin- "Ctrl . " (Ctrl+ dot)
-pivot around median point- "Ctrl , " (Ctrl+ comma)
-pivot around active object- "Alt . " (Alt+ dot)
maybe I’m missing something,but it sounds like you described the way to normally scale anything? lol. this method didn’t work which is why I posted this thread.
blender seems to have weird behavior when scaling multiple faces at once,even with pivot individual faces on its doesn’t behave as expected.
For instance,lets say i’m making a gear.Which is pretty much the same as what i’ve posted,in reverse.
i’ve got a cylinder with 12 divisions,i’ve selected every other face (6 faces) I extrude those faces out,now I want scale each face to get my gear “tooth” shape.So I want to scale each face in x to make the faces thinner (longer height than width).I only want to scale those faces,without effecting the length (depth) of the extrusion i’ve pulled out.
and,its impossible! without doing each one individually…lol even with individual origin selected.
heres a screenshot,with a paint-over of what I want.
(don’t worry about the top faces,I just knife tooled some edges in so the top wasn’t an n-gon.)
i’ve tried the method you guys suggested above,and I can’t get it to work,in maya I can do this in 4 seconds.Again i’m not sure if this is a limitation in blender,or a bug with the pivots.
I’m convinced i’m doing something wrong,because its something that should be so simple…
edit: i’ll have to try this multiple extrusion addon tomorrow.
Sorry, ng-material. I see what you are doing now, and I agree, it should be a lot easier in Blender than it is. I would add an empty, rotate it, model a single tooth, add an array modifer with object offset set to the empty.
no need to apologize the entire post wasn’t directed at you I’m just trying to present a case,to help people understand,and discover limitations of blender.
I can use the array for sure,but this doesn’t eliminate the problem for all cases,like if I wanted extrude some spikes out of a sphere for instance (like a mace weapon) ,can’t use array for that,or at least,you shouldn’t have too.
so should I assume that this is just a limitation with blender?
Surely I can’t be the first to mention this issue? haha that’s why I’m convinced that I’m doing something wrong
Press S to scale then press SHIFT + Z (to exclude the Z axis on the scaling, the axis you want to exclude may be different depending on the orientation of your model of course)
For a mace pointy things if you don’t want to use dupliface, it should work the same if your extrudes are only 1 faces :
select the face to extrude - > press ALT+E -> Individual Faces , change pivot to “Individual origins” and press S to scale
Now if your pointy things extrude are made of more than 1 face individually, , you may need one of the previous workaround (the ngon one should be the easiest i think) to make it work, probably not a limitation of Blender but it’s more a tool that is unfortunately lacking from Blender toolset.
If you installed the contrib addon bundle to the stable version of Blender or downloaded Blender from the buildbot (it include the up to date contrib addons too) , in the File -> User Preferences -> Addons , enable “Testing” and in the “Mesh” category enabled “Mesh : Extra Tools”.
Extra Tools is a compilation of several usefull old addons in a single tab
It will add a tab on the toolshelf in Edit Mode : “Extra Tools” , one of the function is the multi face extrude addon.
Though it’s nice to use (especially with the rotations etc…) i don’t see how to extrude without the faces separating.
Can you explain how you would extrude like this Ricky with using this addon ?
sorry i used this mulextru a few week ago
and since that time i have a bug in windows and cannot get to this mextur script
dont’ know why have to check on bug report to see what happen to this problem
but why do you need here to split faces for the gear?
and why not use the gear script would be much easier !
multiextr should do it as in post 14
and even more options in tool panel!
with less clicks for the faces rebuilding.
the entire post wasn’t directed at you 
