Scaling went abnormal in 3DS Max 5.

I was making a model yesterday in 3DS Max 5. But later on when I was gonna use the scale tool on the hands, the scaling tool went abnormally. I tried all types of resizing on that tool, it only went taller and thinner, or shorter and broader. And the issue is still there when I restared the program and re-opened my model.

Is there a way to set the scaling tool to it's default so that I can resize my model properly? Any commands or menus?

It depends on where you click the cursor on the scaling tool, you have to click it in the very center of all three axises for it to scale properly.

Your model may be too small. If not, work in "User" view instead of perspective, as you should anyway.

Already tried that, with the same weirdness.


The model is kinda big, so it must be the perspective view that causing the trouble. Thanks for the hint, TDR, I'll try the User view.

well you should never model in perspective view anyway, that's when modeling single objects/characters. The perspective distortion on the model may trick you sometimes. Actually many times.

simply hit the hotkey again. To my understanding the gizmo has two modes, one where you can do every kind of scaling and one where you can only do braoder/thinner and taller/shorter.

I've had the same problem and figured it out. Its reather simple.

It sounds like you have squash on.

Scaling in User view didn't solve the problem, however...


You've found the culprint, though the option was set to the third (dunno the names). =)
Thanks for showing me the tool, Guesst. I'll keep it in my mind in case the accident will appear again.


What's the hotkey for the tool? X(

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strange though, working in user view solved it many times for me and others.