Quote - > Quote - Unfortunately, I'm having trouble understanding the exact nature of the scaling problem you're having. When I extrude and scale on the file you uploaded, everything behaves pretty much as I expect it to. If you can provide more details about the problem you're experiencing maybe somebody can offer more insight, but some things to try:

• try "scale along normals" (alt-s) instead of scaling (s). I use "scale along normals" a LOT when modeling

That was exactly what I failed to do - only because I didn't realise one could. Thank you. I was trying to evenly extrude a plane with equal width where the extrusion was based on a normal. And failing.

Awesome! Glad I was able to help. Scale along normals is one of those hidden gems
that you're unlikely to find yourself unless somebody tells you about it or you see it
in a tutorial or something.