How to get illustrator to let me set the shortest edge width

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December 16, 2025
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Hopefully I can make this question make sense. I need to change the size of the shortest edge of this object. However, because the bounding box is rotated, I'm not able to do it. Clicking "reset bounding box doesn't do anything. Is it possible to make this to where I can just type in th 3.15mm height I need to change the shape?

How-to

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

1. go to Object->Shape->Convert to Shape

2. once it's a Shape, change the height (or width) in the Transform Panel

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elizabethm79439738Author

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Thanks...that didn't change anything though. It's already a shape it seems. It seems the bounding box itself needs to be changed, because the measurements in transform are for the bounding box.

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