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How do I scale from one side side only?

How do I scale from one side side only? I want to keep the left side of a object in place, but scale it smaller from the right. See this screen shot: I want it to end up like this: But I had to scale and move to get that.
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How to 'merge/dissolve' two faces?

I had trouble merging/dissolve two faces together, like merging these two faces in the screenshot. Any help is appreciated :)
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How to create a seamlessly looping ocean

Is there a way animate the ocean modifier so it loops continuously? I would like to make an animation where the last frame seamlessly goes into the first without the ocean "jumping": How can I achieve this?
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What is the quickest / best way of duplicating an object with children, so that the children are also duplicated?

What is the quickest / best way of duplicating an object with children, so that the children are also duplicated? I am able to grab the parent object and move it around in the 3D View and the child follows fine, but unless I go into the Outliner and…
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What's the most fun way to make a Snowman in Blender? ❄︎❄︎❄︎

Previous challenge: What's the most fun way to create a fork in Blender?? Winter is here, and I'm trying to build a snowman. But my Blender freezes after the first snowball! (is it because of the ice?) There's gotta be a better way! How would YOU…
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Rotating each iteration of an Array Modifier

Is there a way to rotate each iteration of an Array Modifier? For example, I've created the helices of a DNA molecule, and I'm trying to add the base pairs. I've got a cylinder with an array modifier. Then, I thought I'd apply a simple deform to…
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Best place to put bug reports?

What websites or other resources do users of Blender have available to them to report bugs or problems with the program? I would like to get this issue cleared in Q&A format so that we can link new users with bug-report-style questions to this post.
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How do I bake a texture using Cycles bake

I created a interior scene and i don't know how to bake a texture using cycles bake.
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How to make a holographic reticle shader in cycles

Does anyone have a lead on how to set up a shader in cycles to mimic the behavior of hologhraphic sights in blender, as shown in this image? I don't want to have to try and figure out exactly how to get the lenses and reflectors etc. physically…
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Render result is completely blank

A scene I made is not rendering, at all. This grey screen stays the same and nothing changes. Here are my settings: [
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Is blender actually useable for engineering?

A moving design would be the final goal, but first I need to build complex shapes based on geometry as 3D modeling for engineering. Does blender have a work tree where you can rearrange the order of actions taken? How do you manipulate basic shapes…
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How to distribute objects evenly?

how to distribute different objects evenly in Object Mode? I know about dupliverts, particles, array modifier, etc, but they do not serve as a good, general solution. EDIT: I have a scene with a quite a lot objects. They are already there, the…
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How do I rotate an environment texture?

I've loaded an HDR image into my scene as an environment texture. However, I need to rotate the image, and so far, haven't found a way. I assume this is possible, but I need to know HOW.
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How can I get better results when doing camera motion tracking?

Whenever I do camera tracking in Blender the reconstruction is always zooming out or not on the axis. I have a great quality camera, but the end results of the camera tracking always has the model sliding. If you have a solution please tell me.
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How can I quickly move/translate an object to the center location/position of another object in a static scene?

This question relates to positioning static objects while modeling. This is not a question about how to move objects dynamically/programmatically like in a game context. For example, I need to translate the center of mesh object A to the center of…
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