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5.
Release the left-button on mouse to end the box select operation.
With the top of the mug body selected, press
Scale
(
S
) the selected points. Make
the top of the mug slightly wider than the bottom. By default the center of the scale
operation is relative to the points selected. In this case that works out so the top of
the mug widens evenly all around. (This can be a problem for less regular shapes.)
As with most operations, where the mouse is at the start of the scale
operation, can affect the outcome. If the mouse pointer is too close to the
center, there may not be a high enough degree of control, too close to the
edge of the screen and there may not be enough room to move outward.
This idea of pointer placement before an operation may take some getting
used to but is a powerful reason to use the hot keys because that is not
possible with menu select operations. If the pointer placement is ever
undesirable simply press
Esc
to cancel the operation and try again.
Do a 1 millimeter extrusion (
E
) of the points at the top of the mug by typing
1
during
the extrude operation. The next operation will use extrude in a different way to
create points for scaling.
