Smart Extrude replaces the guesswork of manual extrude + move with a single modal tool. Select any vertices, edges, or faces, move your mouse in the direction you want, and either eyeball it or type an exact number — Smart Extrude always extrudes toward the cursor. Polar angle snapping, X/Y/Z axis locking, MMB-drag axis picking (just like Blender's native transform tools), normal locking, 90° ortho lock, and a Continuous Extrude Mode for chaining multiple extrudes without restarting the tool make this a fast, precise, CAD-style workflow inside Blender's mesh editing.

• X / Y / Z axis locking — press once for global, again for local axis, again to release back to free movement
• Middle-mouse-button axis picking — hold MMB to instantly lock the nearest axis, exactly like Blender's own Move/Rotate tools
• Normal lock (N) — lock directly to the selection's face/vertex normal
• 90° ortho lock (P) — force the movement onto a 90° grid
• Direction lock (Shift) — freeze the current direction and adjust distance only
• Global/Local reference frame toggle (Alt)
• Axis magnet — automatically snaps onto a nearby global axis or normal within a configurable angle threshold
• Unit-aware numeric input and display — typed numbers and on-screen distance labels respect your Scene Unit Settings (Metric or Imperial: mm, cm, m, km, in, ft, yd, and more)
• Continuous Extrude Mode (C) — chain multiple extrudes with mouse-move and left-click, without leaving the tool; every Smart Extrude control stays active throughout

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