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What's the difference between the push/pull and shrink/fatten tools in the transform menu in edit mode?

I noticed that they both do the same thing, so what's the point of making separate options?

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They don't actually do the same things.

  • Shrink/Fatten scales the selected elements along their normals.

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    I've enabled face normals display in the above gif so that you can see that each face is moving along it's normal (blue lines).

  • Push/Pull moves the selected elements farther/closer to the pivot point.

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    Here you can see that the faces are not moving along their normals, but instead are moving away from/closer to the pivot point. In this case, the pivot is the median location of the selected elements, which happens to be the world center in this particular example.

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