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scale/move/rotate along normal direction

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roughsporty
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My first steps into houdini modeling:

I have made an extrusion 2 times and after that I want to scale the poly face along the normal direction. I have tried different things but without a solution.

The handle is not oriented correctly and the align handle function also doesn't help

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edward
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Use PolyExtrude.
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roughsporty
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Maybe I havn't described it very well.

After modeling an object with lots of extrusions and tweaks and so on, it must be possible to tweak individual polys with the handle oriented correctly.
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even the poly extrude handle isn't alligned correctly. If I scale it down on just one axis.

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roughsporty
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scaled

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edward
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I think the only way is to detach your Edit handle, do orientation picking, and then attach again.
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roughsporty
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no, that doesn't work
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Pavel Geraskin
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Hi.

I know this is old topic. But there is really no Normal Axis in Houdini. We really need this Axis for modeling.

Modo, Blender, 3dMax, Maya have NormalAxis during modeling.
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