topic Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING in Maya Modeling Forum

SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:48:29 GMT

Hey,

All of a sudden shift and drag does not extrude anymore, I can see the extrusion data in the Attribute but whatever tool I use it just move, rotate or scale whatever vertex, edge or face I try, any kind help ?

Thank you

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 08:04:10 GMT

Try to reset your maya preference which is located under users\documents\maya version\prefs. Change the name of prefs folder to something prefsOld and restart maya. Maya will ask you to create default preference just create default preference.

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

Anonymous — Thu, 13 May 2021 13:31:36 GMT

CTRL+SHIFT+RMC , click SmartExtrude

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

arturovargas — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:32:47 GMT

@Anonymous I just wanna say, you the goat!!

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

you.khno — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:01:22 GMT

Hello! I had the same problem and realized that I accidentally changed the selection settings.

Tool Selection > Soft Select > Soft Select

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

falorfrozen — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:11:11 GMT

Thanks, it worked.

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

conorowens1999 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:11:32 GMT

thank you!!

Re: SHIFT AND DRAG TO EXTRUDE NOT WORKING

tlee4714 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:24:08 GMT

Had a case where the extrude on rotation would only work with Step Snap set to off or relative, but not absolute.

(with Step Snap set to absolute, the extrude would not execute, just the rotation, not sure if that's a bug or a feature...)