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title: "Push"
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description: "This page documents the Push tool for hair in Cinema 4D. It displaces guides away from the surface or from each other by a defined amount once Apply is …"
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# Push

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page documents the **Push tool** for hair in **Cinema 4D**. It displaces guides away from the surface or from each other by a defined amount once Apply is pressed — helpful for adding volume or resolving guides that sit too close together.

This tool has two purposes in life:

- Guides that have partially or entirely come to rest beneath the hair-covered surface (e.g., after combing without using collision detection), can be pushed back above the surface using this tool.
- This tool can be used to push guides apart.

![Image: 005161.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/005161.jpg)\
Top: The effect of the **Surface** setting. Bottom: The effect of the **Guides** setting.

After adjusting the settings as desired, the **Apply** button must be pressed in order to apply the settings to the guides.