Shear Tool

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Shearing is making an object slant to one side. A good example is italicized text. Think of Shear as Move with axial falloff. That is, the strength of the moving influence is not equal across the object, but gradually falls off along a selected axis.

Using Shear with a Radial falloff

To use the Shear tool:

Select Modify > Shear, click and drag your LMB in a viewport in the direction you want the slant.The information display tells you how much Offset you applied along two of the three axes, depending on the view you edit in. Hold the Ctrl key down while dragging to constrain the shear to your initial dragging axis.

The Offset X, Y, and Z values on the numeric panel will reflect the amount of movement along those axes for the tool’s last operation.