Stretch Question

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Hello Everyone!

I attempted to find the answer to my question though Google and several Blender resources, but can’t find what I’m looking for.

I have been hearing a lot of hype behind Blender and thought I would check it out. So far, I like it a lot. I am still learning and I am getting a bit frustrated with the stretch function.

Lets see if I can explain this well enough to be understood. With my current 3D platform (ac3d) I can resize in this fashion:

Lets say I have cylinder object that I extruded on one side. In a profile view, I select the vertices on one side and activate the resize method. ac3d puts a box around your selection and gives you eight handles to resize. If I grab the top Y handle and move it up, I can resize just the top half of the selected vertices. My result looks like a deformed funnel.

Now, with Blender, I activate the stretch method and it keeps the stretch even on both sides of the axis I resize. This is not the method I am looking for. I want to resize each end of the axis independently.

Now, I know I might not have explained this well, so I included some diagrams.

Stretch1.png: ac3d stretch handles
Stretch2.png: ac3d letting me stretch just one end of the axis.
Stretch3.png: result of attempting the same thing in blender.

How do I accomplish a similar effect as in ac3d?

Thank you for all your help!

  • matt

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Snap the 3D cursor to the vertex you want to stay in place (select the vertex, then shift-S), then scale (S) relative to the cursor (.).

Best wishes,
Matthew

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There is a quick way: you just switch to “active object” in the header of the 3d viewport (the single dot mode, and the last vertex selected will be the origin of the stretch.

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Thank you very much for the help! It works. I’m not sure if I like this cursor thing and all these keyboard commands. But, I will not give up on Blender yet. Thank you again!