scale/move/rotate along normal direction

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roughsporty: Member; 191 posts; Joined: Aug. 2008; Offline

Feb. 28, 2012 1:52 p.m.

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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HoudiniSchnappschuss001.jpg (190.8 KB)


edward: Member; 7708 posts; Joined: July 2005; Online

Feb. 28, 2012 2:39 p.m.

Use PolyExtrude.


roughsporty: Member; 191 posts; Joined: Aug. 2008; Offline

Feb. 28, 2012 2:47 p.m.

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.


roughsporty: Member; 191 posts; Joined: Aug. 2008; Offline

Feb. 28, 2012 2:58 p.m.

even the poly extrude handle isn't alligned correctly. If I scale it down on just one axis.

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HoudiniSchnappschuss002.jpg (137.2 KB)


roughsporty: Member; 191 posts; Joined: Aug. 2008; Offline

Feb. 28, 2012 2:59 p.m.

scaled

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HoudiniSchnappschuss003.jpg (135.3 KB)


edward: Member; 7708 posts; Joined: July 2005; Online

Feb. 28, 2012 3:05 p.m.

I think the only way is to detach your Edit handle, do orientation picking, and then attach again.


roughsporty: Member; 191 posts; Joined: Aug. 2008; Offline

Feb. 28, 2012 3:28 p.m.

no, that doesn't work


Pavel Geraskin: Member; 93 posts; Joined: March 2014; Offline

Oct. 23, 2014 6:03 a.m.

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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