Kinda like... 9-slice symbol scaling, more like, locked side scaling
9-slice symbol scaling works FOR CORNERS. But can you make it so that the TOP, BOTTOM, OR SIDES can stay in place and you can just make the length of an item longer? It's not always about Rounded corners, sometimes it's about an ARCHED TOP or CURVED SIDE, which is static but box needs to grow. This is important to me because I'm in signage and every template we work with can be for example: 6" wide or 8" wide and vary in length or width. So that we do not have to re-draw every shape, or hand extend every box, it would be great if there was a "tool" to keep the template in "easy access" that can be easily modified to length or width without modifying the artistic shape, like arch on top which distorts if you don't grab the points. Consequently, it's also hard to hit an exact 8" measurement when making it bigger by pulling out the points without zooming in, you always get a random 8.023" (perhaps this is another setting I need to adjust but, in one grouped way it works, on this subject, when enlarged, it is better when the numbers are 8" not 8.023". As we are using trying to obtain a yield from a sheet of material.
Corrine Erickson
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Corrine, when I check, it works as I think you want it to work, when I just drag vertical guides outside of the bounds of the symbol’s artwork, like the attached image show.
Does it work for you?
