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Forum Archive › Extrude,Alt-S vs Extrude,S,Locking an axis › Reply To: Extrude,Alt-S vs Extrude,S,Locking an axis
It depends.
ALT+S Scales along the Normals of the Faces…Those are usually not aligned to some axis.
I suggest you play with Suzanne a bit and Extrude some Faces, Extrude and Scale and Extrude and Shrink/Fatten ( ALT+S)…see what happens…