I'm new to blender and I don't even seem to be able to extrude my faces straight down. I'm creating the base mesh for a shirt, but I keep extruding faces at different angles. Some help would be appreciated!
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Immediately after typing E (extrude), type Z twice: first to override the default direction (along the faces' normal), then to constrain the extrusion along the Z axis.
(E, Z, Z, move, Enter. Note "along global Z" on the bottom bar)
To add on this: you can constrain to an axis - X, Y or Z - also the other familiar operations G (move), R (rotate) and S (scale).
Similarly, Shift+Z constrains the transformation to all axes except Z.
Finally, selecting an axis twice means that the axis local to the object's internal coordinates is used, rather than the global one.
answered Sep 22, 2018 at 12:43
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1$\begingroup$ Thank you so much. It is a really frustrating learning process, but this certainly helps me a step further! $\endgroup$– maura01Sep 22, 2018 at 14:36
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2$\begingroup$ Note that pressing Z twice will only transform along the Local axis if that is the transform orientation chosen in the 3D view header. $\endgroup$ Sep 22, 2018 at 15:38