Best workflow to rescale an object to a certain length

 From:  DavidE
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Hello!

I often have the use-case that I want to scale an object (usally a rectangle or a cube) into one direction so that it has the final size of x.
The way I currently do it:

1. Shortcut for Scale 1D
2. Pick the origin point
3. Pick scale direction (where I already click on the end of the to-be-scaled object)
4. Click manually into the d-field (I guess dimensions)
5. Type desired length x
6. Enter

I was wondering if instead of step 4, there is some way of selecting the d-field faster via a shortcut?
What would be even better is if instead of the "Scale Factor" in the form of "Pick a second reference point", there's already the field "Dimension". Because then the dimension could already be accessed by clicking Tab.

Here the current workflow:




Thank you!
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