How to accurately scale a... "box" to a precise size, and arbitrarily omit one of the axes.?

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Hi guys.!
For some time now i’ve been wondering and searching for this one… but I’ve found no answer so far.

So, I know that you can type your desired dimensions and your units for all the axes at once and voila, you have your… “box” (or whatever), but many times I had to do it in 2 steps because I want it one of the axes unchanged (and I didn’t knew its size and I didn’t care about its size…), but I also don’t know how to bypass typing one of the axes dimension…
I mean I’ve tried typing many characters or leaving empty (or whatever) that space, but whatever i do SketchUp wants to fill that place with something meaningful otherwise it gives me an error and it won’t scale nothing.

Well, i refuse to believe that there is no way to bypass entering the dimensions for one of the axes…, so please, if you have some professional knowledge.!

Thank you.! :slightly_smiling_face:

P.S.: Well, to avoid confusions… (!!!) I’m talking about scaling by grabing a corner grip.!

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Please, read again my question.!
Thank you.!

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Better like this?

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Well, I’ve edited my post…, so that won’t be another confusion.!

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with FredoScale, just right click over the corner grip you want, then type what dimensions you want to change

For SketchUp Free (web) you’ll use the middle grip point.

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Well, thank you, that’s a new one, but you can do that also in Sketchup, the question is how to miss one of the axes…!

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By pulling the appropriate handle, pulling the corner one means you want to change all three.
As @mihai.s has shown, select the correct handle for just two dimension.

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Yes, your are right, he’s shown in the second post, but i also was misled about its first one and i didn’t payed attention to its second one.!

Solutions are many, yet I think that there is an answer to my question also, I’ve read somewhere but I was too in a hurry to pay attention.

Anyway, thanks.!

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