Slide polygon edges

The Slide Edge Tool lets you reposition a selection of edges or entire edge loops on a polygon mesh. You can slide an edge along its shared perpendicular edges or in the direction of the shared vertex normals.

To slide a selection of polygon edges

  1. Select the edges you want to slide on the polygonal mesh.

    You can select the edges individually by Shift-selecting the edges or by selecting an entire edge loop. See Select an edge loop.

    Note: You can convert an existing selection to an edge loop using Select > Convert Selection > To Edge Loop, or use the pickwalk feature (Left and right arrow hotkeys).
  2. Select Mesh Tools > Slide Edge Tool > .
  3. -drag to slide the selected edges.

    The vertices associated with the selected edges move along their shared perpendicular edges.

    Tip: You can press the Shift key to move the edges/edge loop along each vertex normal.

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