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Basic transformations: Scaling

Basic transformations: Scaling - Rhino Tutorial

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Basic transformations: Scaling

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- [Instructor] Rhino has some powerful options for scaling your geometry. We can scale objects in 1D, 2D or 3D. How cool is that? Let's zoom over to some of the geometry here I'm gonna use for the demo. I'm gonna start off first by opening the scale icon here so we can access all of the various options of it. If you click and hold you do get the fly out and then you have to move your cursor over still while holding, then click on the top part. This now becomes a dockable toolbar which can go up in the top toolbar but I'm gonna leave it right here just for easy access. Let's start off with this rectangle here in the center. I'm gonna select the scale 1D. Like a lot of scaling operations we always pick the base point, or origin, so I'll just snap to the midpoint there. Make sure your O snaps match mine. This will be the base point. Now there's a couple ways we can proceed I'm just gonna start off here with selecting this midpoint at the opposite end. Just so that we can show as you move…

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