Proportional Push & Rotate Tool
I’m relatively new to Illustrator, not sure if such a feature already exists, but I’d like to suggest a tool that allows selected objects to be proportionally pushed away from the group’s center point or a custom pivot point — without scaling them — and optionally rotate them around that same point. For rotation, it would be great to have options whether the objects keep their own rotation (independent) or rotate as children following the group’s rotation. Additionally, it would be helpful to allow setting horizontal and vertical movement ratios (e.g., move 1 unit horizontally while moving 0.35 units vertically) for the push-away action.
Egemen Ekinci
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Illustrator doesn’t offer a tool like this form the box, but there is a plugin tool that does a similar thing, Inflate Deflate tool, by Astute Graphics:
https://docs.astutegraphics.com/colliderscribe/inflate-deflate-tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhc4HaJxkfAIt’s an interactive tool, designed for artistic use.
If you need a more precise approach... a native way to do it is a combination of Scale operation followed by Transform Each operation, to compensate the scaling back. Requires some calculation.Rotation though... I’d really love to see some examples of the application you have in mind, to follow the idea.
