Looking at the Offset Loops Tool that is a part of Quad Face Tools for not only quickly and easily offsetting edge loops, but also for hover selecting edge loops and calling other tools for faster modeling operations. NOTE FROM THE PLUGIN AUTHOR - "From ThomThom - "The reason it is so hard to find is because I thought I had removed it from the UI. It's still in development, which is why its flakey and not documented. I did add a special backdoor because I wanted to let people experiment and test, though it looks like I forgot one menu. (Type this into the ruby console - TT::Plugins::QuadFaceTools::Settings.write('DebugDisplayOffsetLoopTool', true) This video is great though, because it answers many questions I had about workflow. You made use of the tool to much furthe extent than I expected was possible, even in it's currenr state. Main thing was if it was usable in doing distance offset. I had gitten some feedback that people wanted just relative offset. So I was about to scrap it and start over, but it looks like there is use for both."" Follow us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/winningwithsketchup