Scaling drawings by %

[Preston Jackson]

There are a couple of ways to accomplish scaling polygons.

First, if you select the polygon and click on the "size" info pane you 
can manually adjust its height and width. If you have a group of 
objects, collect them into a group (Format->Group) and then you can use 
these fields to adjust the object.

Alternatively, if you group the polygon with another shape, you can use 
the resize boxes that appear at the group's corners to adjust the size. 
If you don't have another polygon that you want to resize, make one, 
group it with the polygon, resize the group, ungroup the group, and 
delete the unwanted shape. Its kind of a hack, but it works.

There may be more intelligent ways to accomplish the same thing, but 
these will work.

Preston
pjackson at ee.byu.edu

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:22  PM, Kiran Wagle wrote:

> It seems to me there must be a way to scale drawings by a percentage 
> in either or both directions, but I can't figure out how to do it. Is 
> this just missing from the current version?
>
> (I need to shrink odd shapes to fit the new smaller scale of my 
> drawings.  Scaling shapes is by hand is trivial, but scaling the 
> polygons is less easy.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~ Kiran <entropy at io.com>
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