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
`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
	Use local space for scaling
`objectCenterPivot` / `ocp`		bool
	Let the pivot be the center of the bounding box of each object
`objectSpace` / `os`		bool
	Use object space for scaling
`orientAxes` / `oa`		float, float, float
	Use the angles for the orient axes.
`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
	Use world space for scaling
`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 )