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  • Published 5 Oct 2021

Auto flip face normals when mirroring or scaling negative

A very handy thing would be an option to automatically flip face normals back after mirroring (using CTRL+M) and scaling using negative values. Normally, you always need to do it manually after mirroring or negative scaling. It could be a toggle somewhere in the tool properties or in user preferences, under Keymap.

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michalpe
5 Oct 2021

6 Comments

e-mananimates

While I like that idea, I also wish to include the option for preserving how it once was. Some people may prefer how the Normals are flipped like that.

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Lauloque

Yes, as suggested in the proposal it should have a toggle somewhere.

The Last action panel is made for that, so it should be there.

e-mananimates

Oh, I missed that. Thank you for the observation.

thinsoldier

I'm almost sure this is already being done for collection instances. They should just expose a property for it in the object properties tab.

jacek007g

There are propositions like that already. The idea itself is of course very valid.

blender.community/c/rightclickselect/XVbbbc/ blender.community/c/rightclickselect/Lxdbbc/

softyoda

True, how many times i CTRL+M + CTRL+A apply scale + enter edit mode + flip normal + exit edit mode.