Another question from a beginner

[Ceroba]

Hello all! I'm hoping you're all happy to hear that I have been making progress in my learning curve

Although it's super limited, it's still more then what i previously knew.
I'm having troubles with scaling a plane mesh that i had cut out,
whenever i try to scale it through the x axis to make it more thick, it tends to expand the size from all dimensions?

What am I doing wrong?

[Girlgamer87]

pressing s then shift+(x,y or z) will prevent scaling in that axis
ie s, shift+y will scale all but the y axis

there is a solidify modifier, too. Have a look (the spanner icon)

[Girlgamer87]

you can also s, y to scale only the y axis

[Girlgamer87]

aaand
s, y 1.5 will scale the y axis 1.5%

[YourPeepingTom]

if you're looking to make it thicker through scaling make sure you're on face select, that usually works best. solidify modifier is always a good thing as well and if you're just having issues with it not scaling how expected, try doin ctrl a and setting the scale so it treats it right

[Ceroba]

I've attempted some of the solutions above but it seems to cause the same issue of it just moving forward, I know i'm using the scale tool, Is this an issue for when using planes?

[YourPeepingTom]

any screen caps? it'd prolly help a bit, if you have just a flat plane you can either extrude it and move it in the direction you want or you could scale it in object mode and then recenter it

[*P0P$*FR3$H3NM3Y3R*]

Is this a flat planar mesh? If so scaling it will not make it thicker...you have to extrude it or, alternatively, use a solidify modifier (even thickness).

[Girlgamer87]

which option do you have selected here?
https://imgur.com/JLLOt0M

[The Renderer]

As POP$ said, you cannot make a plane thicker by scaling. You need to extrude to actually create geometry first, then you can make it thicker (hit e to extrude, then move your mouse).

Also, s+y+1.5 will scale by 150% (making it 50% bigger), not by 1.5%

Finally, if you try to scale anything and it doesn't equally scale along the axes, you need to apply any previous scaling you made before (ctrl-A -> scale).