●  Non-Proportional Scale · now in Blender

Squash & stretch your whole viewport in one gesture.

ViewStretch recreates Autodesk Alias' Non-Proportional Scale right inside the Blender 3D Viewport. Drag horizontally to scale along the view's X axis, vertically along the view's Y axis — rebalancing proportions while you block out a shape. Fully non-destructive: one click resets everything, exactly.

BEFORE

AFTER — stretched along the view axis

Same mesh, untouched — only the viewport content is scaled along the view axes.

See it live

One drag. Whole viewport.

Hold, drag, release to keep it — click once to snap everything back. Watch the proportions rebalance in real time.

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What it does

Built for blocking, safe for your mesh

One-gesture stretch Drag horizontally for view X, vertically for view Y. No gizmo hunting, no numeric fields.	Zero mesh edits A hidden view-aligned Empty does all the scaling. Your vertices, edges and faces are never modified.	Exact reset One click restores original transforms and parenting precisely, then deletes the hidden rig.
Rig-safe hierarchies Each visible object is walked up to its hierarchy root, so rigs and nested chains move as one piece.	Live scale readout The viewport header shows the current X and Y scale factors while you drag.	Precision mode Hold Shift while dragging to fine-tune the stretch at one-tenth speed.

Matched against Alias

The same stretch, side by side

Blender (left of each pair) matched against Autodesk Alias (right) — same model, same camera, before and after.

FRONT — ORIGINAL	FRONT — STRETCHED
PERSPECTIVE — ORIGINAL	PERSPECTIVE — STRETCHED

Non-destructive by design

It never touches your mesh data.

Two modes, one tool

Object Mode & Edit Mode

OBJECT MODE Stretch everything in view Walks each visible object up to its hierarchy root and parents that root — so rigs and nested chains follow as one piece, no parenting broken.

EDIT MODE Only the object you're editing Mesh, Curve, Curves & Surface — through the viewport button only. Keyboard shortcuts pass through, so editing gestures are never stolen.

Controls

A button in the viewport, or the keys you know.

A small button sits below the navigation icons, top-right of the 3D Viewport — it turns Blender-blue while a stretch is live.

The viewport button glows blue while any stretch rig is active in the scene.

Ctrl + Alt + LMB drag  —  Stretch (horizontal = view X, vertical = view Y)

Ctrl + Alt + RMB  —  Reset everything to original

Shift  —  Hold while dragging for precision mode

Viewport button: hold + drag = stretch, release = stays, click = reset.

Preferences

Tune it to how you work.

• Stretch Mode — View X/Y (non-proportional) or Uniform.
• Sensitivity — how fast the model scales as you drag.
• Include All Object Types — also stretch cameras, lights and other non-geometry objects (Object Mode).
• Show Viewport Button and Button Offset X / Y — show, hide, and position the button.

Licensing

Pick your license

Compatibility

Blender 4.2+ · Windows · macOS · Linux

Distributed as a modern Blender Extension — install from disk and it is enabled automatically. No external dependencies.

What's included

• ViewStretch extension (.zip), ready to install in Blender 4.2+.
• Full online documentation: installation, usage, preferences and FAQ.
• README, changelog and GPL v3 license.
• 12 months of support from Pino Iulio and free 1.x updates.

Created by Pino Iulio · © 2026 · GNU GPL v3.0 or later