Is there a way in blender to inset a face?

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bobbystahr has moved this thread from the Bryce forum to the Blender3D forum as of Wednesday, October 1, 2008 6:51 pm.

 

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I dont use blender, but i think there would probably be a tool to 'extrude'  the faces. just extrude them inwards (probably a negative value)

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Yes, well one option is to extrude a 0 value so there is no height (negative or positive) and then simply scale uniformly. But that really isn't as clean as an inset.

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Here's my suggestion:

First, I'd strongly recommend working with squares instead of triangles if the image you posted is showing your faces as triangles.  Squares will make it much more easier to extrude and loop cut your model while working with Blender.  

Starting with a simple cube, select the face to inset.

Press "E" to extrude and then immediately left click to finish the process.  

With the new face selected you can scale it to size:

Press "S" to scale.  Move the mouse then then left click to finsh.  

Press "E" to extrude the new face in or out.  

You could right click at this point and then press "G" to grab and then one of the traditional axis buttons to move along one axis. "X", "Y", or "Z".  

Trying to extrude or loop cut square faces made from 2 triangles will be difficult.

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If you're working with an imported model made from triangles, Blender can covert it to Squares and then back to triangles if you desire.

With the object selected in Edit Mode.  

• Space Bar -
   - Edit
    - Faces
     - Convert to Quads
     - (Convert to Traingles)

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Hope this helps.
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No, I'm not working with triangles. The image comes from Max and since I'm using the OpenGL instead of Direct3D viewport driver it shows the diagonal line in quads.

I know I can extrude and then scale, but I don't want any height (either positive or negative). I want the face to be planar. I understand your explanation and thank you. Now, I know there isn't any inset feature and that it is done with the extrude function.

I wanted to make sure there wasn't an easier way that I was missing.

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if you do what reddog says you wont get any height.

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Oh right I missed the part where it says "left click immediately". Should've thought of that myself.

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Hey, thats pretty cool!  Nice tip.