pymel.core.general.scale¶

scale(obj, *args, **kwargs)¶

The scale command is used to change the sizes of geometric objects. The default behaviour, when no objects or flags are passed, is to do a relative scale on each currently selected object object using each object’s existing scale pivot point.

Modifications:

• allows any iterable object to be passed as first argument:

  scale("pSphere1", [0,1,2])
  

NOTE: this command also reorders the argument order to be more intuitive, with the object first

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
absolute / a		bool
	Perform an absolute operation.
centerPivot / cp		bool
	Let the pivot be the center of the bounding box of all objects
constrainAlongNormal / xn		bool
	When true, transform constraints are applied along the vertex normal first and only use the closest point when no intersection is found along the normal.
deletePriorHistory / dph		bool
	If true then delete the history prior to the current operation.
distanceOnly / dso		bool
	Scale only the distance between the objects.
localSpace / ls		bool
objectCenterPivot / ocp		bool
	Let the pivot be the center of the bounding box of each object
objectSpace / os		bool
orientAxes / oa		float, float, float
pivot / p		float, float, float
	Define the pivot point for the transformation
preserveChildPosition / pcp		bool
	When true, transforming an object will apply an opposite transform to its child transform to keep them at the same world-space position. Default is false.
preserveGeometryPosition / pgp		bool
	When true, transforming an object will apply an opposite transform to its geometry points to keep them at the same world-space position. Default is false.
preserveUV / puv		bool
	When true, UV values on scaled components are projected along the axis of scaling in 3d space. For small edits, this will freeze the world space texture mapping on the object. When false, the UV values will not change for a selected vertices. Default is false.
reflection / rfl		bool
	To move the corresponding symmetric components also.
reflectionAboutBBox / rab		bool
	Sets the position of the reflection axis at the geometry bounding box
reflectionAboutOrigin / rao		bool
	Sets the position of the reflection axis at the origin
reflectionAboutX / rax		bool
	Specifies the X=0 as reflection plane
reflectionAboutY / ray		bool
	Specifies the Y=0 as reflection plane
reflectionAboutZ / raz		bool
	Specifies the Z=0 as reflection plane
reflectionTolerance / rft		float
	Specifies the tolerance to findout the corresponding reflected components
relative / r		bool
	Perform a operation relative to the object’s current position
scaleX / x		bool
	Scale in X direction
scaleXY / xy		bool
	Scale in X and Y direction
scaleXYZ / xyz		bool
	Scale in all directions (default)
scaleXZ / xz		bool
	Scale in X and Z direction
scaleY / y		bool
	Scale in Y direction
scaleYZ / yz		bool
	Scale in Y and Z direction
scaleZ / z		bool
	Scale in Z direction
symNegative / smn		bool
	When set the component transformation is flipped so it is relative to the negative side of the symmetry plane. The default (no flag) is to transform components relative to the positive side of the symmetry plane.
worldSpace / ws		bool
xformConstraint / xc		unicode
	Apply a transform constraint to moving components. none - no constraintsurface - constrain components to the surfaceedge - constrain components to surface edgeslive - constraint components to the live surfaceFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.scale

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.scale( 1, 1, 1 )
pm.scale( 3, 3, 3, 'curve1', pivot=(1, 0, 0), absolute=True )