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# 1 19-01-2015 , 01:05 PM
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Problem with extruding a face, please help!

Hi, I'm trying to model a box with thick sides and figured that the only way to do this is by extruding the faces (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, when I extrude the face it doesn't make it thicker but rather moves it as you can see in the picture:
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How can I fix this? Or is there a different way to thicken faces?
 
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# 2 20-01-2015 , 01:56 PM
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The extrude tool has a thickness function. Just type a value into the thickness and you should get some thickness on your box. You may have to reverse the normals after, but it should work pretty well.
 
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# 3 21-01-2015 , 03:19 AM
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That worked, thank you!
 
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