Enable Soft Selection
Selection > Enable Soft Selection

 

Description:

      The Enable Soft Selection (Modify > Enable Soft Selection) toggle allows you to turn soft selection on or off. If the menu item is checked, soft selection is enabled. Otherwise, soft selection is disabled. When soft selection is enabled, the effects of move, scale, and rotate manipulator edits will be the same as usual on selected elements (vertices, edges, or faces), but will also be distributed to adjacent vertices based on how far away they are from the manipulator. You can tell how much the transformations will affect individual vertices by the coloring of those vertices when soft selection is enabled (and these colors can be changed in the Color Settings dialog).  This causes edits to have a smoothed or softened effect on the model. The radius and falloff of the soft selection, or amount which the effect decreases with distance away from the manipulator, can be edited in the Soft Selection Options window (Selection > Enable Soft Selection > ...).  You may also consider assigning soft selection adjustments to the mouse scroll wheel with the Soft Selection Falloff/Radius Up/Down commands found in the command list.


Notes:

- Changes made using the Numerical Editor (Modify > Numerical Editor...) will also be affected by soft selection.