# Extrude direction

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/extrude-direction/74853>\
**Category:** Rhino for Windows\
**Created:** [November 15, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/extrude-direction/74853 "2018-11-15T10:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/tom_p/32/766520_2.png) [@Tom\_P](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Tom_P)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/extrude-direction/74853/16 "2022-04-28T22:00:35Z")

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dear pascal - thanks for having a look at this older topic.

> [@Tom\_P](#):
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> **in summary**

update for this section to make more clear what i meant up there: (cant edit older post)

- **numeric input** should finishing by **pressing enter** and height should correspond to cplane z or for planar curves: ccw-direction curve plane normal, no influence of mouse postion, pure keyboard input.
- **mouse input** should finish with a **mouseclick** in the viewport
  - interaction with mouse is nice
  - there should be a better approach in defining at which position the mouse changes the direction, some visual indicator, closest point / Pick point if available, my screenshots in above post show a possible approach / improvement ( in my opinion)

for some camera positions it is completely counter - intuitiv where to click. especially it **not** the entire curve is on screen.  
and for those cases a pure numeric input would be most easy but does not work.

maybe this (fake-/pseudo) example is convincing:  
a big project  
a small detail  
a huge curve to extrude  
extrude the given curve 5 mm upwards - without changing the view - because the next (fictional) step is also some work at the detail

 ![Screenshot 2022-04-28 at 23.54.39](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/b/7/6/b7611eefd5b60d49c3f031649c624e6c4df77a0a.png)  
the extrusion i want  
 ![Screenshot 2022-04-28 at 23.54.49](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/b/9/6/b964e3636c566356f369d6a11c8801486e1349ff.png)

[extrude\_me\_5mm.3dm](https://discourse.mcneel.com/uploads/short-url/fCNDSFo7BG7FaGN4FdBSwALuls0.3dm) (36.7 KB)

by the way - did you see my other \_extrudeCrv wish ?

[https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/wish-extrudecrv-option-start-height-end-height/140791](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/wish-extrudecrv-option-start-height-end-height/140791)

kind regards -tom

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