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Darth Mole
02-06-2005, 03:01 PM
I'm working through a tutorial from an older R8 book, which explains how to group objects and then scale them - in this instance, vertically in the Y axis. However, I'm using R9 and when I drag the axis tools, the grouped objects all scale independantly and not just in the Y axis - they all grow in size and begin to overlap.

How do I set up a grouping so that I can resize in one direction without altering the other axes? What am I missing here?

(Yes, I'm sure it's in the manual, but I've no idea where, hence my query...)
Daoine
02-06-2005, 03:16 PM
Did you make the objects editable? If you are using parametric objects, and haven't made them editable, any scaling will scale them uniformly. Make them editable, throw them in as a child of the "scaled" object, and everything should be right as rain.

Daoine
Darth Mole
02-06-2005, 03:21 PM
Yep - just figured it out as you posted. Coming from LightWave, I'm not used to this 'make editable' stuff yet. Works fine now - thanks!
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