Why can’t I scale the side of the top part of the chest?

[aleem_m]

The select parts scale but then I get a small gap between the bottom face of the active plank and the top plank of the bottom piece of the chest.

[spikeyxxx]

Hi aleem. 

You are scaling towards the active element:

which is in this case the lighter colored bottom plank and to be more precise: the center of the plank:

So everything (that is selected) shrinks towards the center of that bottom plank, so also the bottom of that bottom plank scales towards that center.

[Mark Smith]

as spikey has indicated scaling is not a simple concept…

it includes knowing which axis (or all 3) and what point (such as center of or edge of)…

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