How do I lengthen end of a geometry which is "cut" to an angle?

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This is the modest problem in question:
How do I lenghten that “wooden” board to meet the other board?

I know I can select edges and use the move tool, but then I have to move all the edges one at the time.
If I select the face, then use the move tool, it actually moves the whole board.
If I use stretch, the angle of the cut is skewed…

The solution in the topic which came up when making this post, How do I lengthen or shorten block that has curved roundovers Doesn’t work. It moves the whole board…

It’s a component, but it doesn’t work by double clicking “far enough” into it so I’m working with the geometry itself…

There must be something super simple solution to this, but I don’t know the correct search terms.

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You should be able to select the miter face and its bounding edges and use Move to move just the selection. You’ll have to open the “board” group/component so you can select the end of the board to move it. If that doesn’t work for you, share the .skp file so we can see why.

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Dang! Didn’t think of this before until you said “…and it’s bounding edges”. If I select the edges using shift, one by another,I can select them all and use the move tool. Thanks!

If I select the face and the edges by double clicking correctly, it moves the end into the direction of which the cut is facing.

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Well, yes… Or you could use a left to right (not right to left) selection box to grab only the geometry you want. Or, a double click on the face selects the face and it’s edges only.

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I must have messed up something earlier through several tries, now that works. Thanks!

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That sounds like either you aren’t using inferences to move the end in the correct direction, or else you are using push-pull instead of move.