Examples of Scaling

Original part. No scale applied. Material is on one side of the X axis only. Scaled about Origin with a scale factor of 3 applied to X axis. The model scales to the right side only of the X axis.

Original part. No scale applied. Material is on both sides of the X axis. Scaled about Origin with a scale factor of 3 applied to the X axis. Model scales about the origin in both directions along the X axis.