Move Editable_Poly Vertex along its Normal

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Hello Community,

I am trying to move a vertice of an Editable Poly along its Normal.

I have already tried to use "in coordsys local move...", but Max does not understand, that I mean the local axis of the vertice. He takes the local object axis instead.

I am sure, for you it is a banal question. But I have tried a lot, that didn't work yet.

Kind regards
Arnim

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Hello again,

is this question too banal for you? Or is it more difficult than I have expected? Does no-one know how to move a vertice along its normal (wich probably is the averaged normal of all neighboring faces)?

Please help a desperate user 😉

Kind regards
Arnim

[paulneale]

Build a matrix from the normal and multiply it by the matrix of the object with the offset that you need.

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Hello Paul,

thank you for your answer. To be honest: I do not have the slightest clue, what you are talking about, but I'll find out.

Kind regards
Arnim

[Anonymous]

this is the exact question I has before. moving vertex along normal sometimes is a very powerful funtion which few people aware that. Paul is right, you have to dig into the Matrix things to resolve this. which I don't want to get headache of that now.