When I extrude an edge, then I can't move the edge as before

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Hi!

I’m new in Blender and I don’t know why, but if I follow these steps, I don’t know how to return.

1- Go to Edit Mode > Move an edge of a box (moves the faces)
2- Press E to extrude > Extrude the edge of the box (everything ok until now)
3- Cancel extrude (Esc), and press the Move key (or manually) moving the same edge => doesn’t moves the faces, only the edge like in Extrude.

That’s the result when using Move after using Extrude in an edge.

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How I can avoid that? Yes, I can press Ctrl+Z but sometimes I do more actions and I don’t know how to reverse that.

Thank you in advance.

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Now you have to undo!

You aborted with Esc, but the extrude command was executed.

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Ahh so if I press Extrude but without make any extrude really, it Blender extrudes the edge anyways?

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Correct, it’s a very useful way of building geometry, you’ll often see in tutorials people say choose extrude, then hit ESC to keep it in place. A common trick is using this to scale faces after extrude, but it applies to edges.

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Thank you for the explanation. I’ve seen that by default Blender has 32 steps so are enough to avoid mistakes. :sweat_smile:

Very interesting trick!

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You’ll want to turn that default all the way up to 256, if you have enough RAM for that. 32 “steps” isn’t as much as it sounds like- each operation is one single step

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I agree, I don’t have a huge amount of ram, but I have my undo set to 64 steps, as Joseph says, 32 is a lot less than you’d think.

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Ah I thought it will be enough with 32, but I’ll go to 256 that I’ve enough RAM. :smiley: