Scale tool problem

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February 17, 2017
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My Scale tool has suddenly lost the ability to scale proportionally. When I hold down shift and drag diagonally nothing happens. It doesn't matter whether it's relative to the centre point or a different reference point.

It's driving me nuts and wasting heaps of time! Anyone got any ideas?

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Red Point

Inspiring

I use the "Free Transform Tool", that seems to work. Shift-Clicking the scale tool creates all sorts of eradic behavious, so I have removed it from the toolbar.

Kris Hunt

Legend

This is still happening in Illustrator 25.1, FOUR YEARS LATER. Fortunately, unchecking the transform tools checkbox in the Smart Guides preferences is still a valid workaround.

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Dheeru Rawat

Participant

Shift+Ctrl+B

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Mr Salman

Participant

Try this one.

View>Show Bounding Box (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B).

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Which version of Illustrator are you using?

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Not sure if the following steps reflect what the OP is experiencing, but it may be.

In Illustrator CC 2017 (21.0.2) on Sierra 10.12.3 I can see some disturbance when you try to scale proportionally with the Scale tool while Smart Guides are turned on and the Transform tools option is enabled in the Smart Guides preferences.

Steps to reproduce:

Make sure that the Transform Tools option is turned on in the Smart Guides preferences.
Turn on Smart Guides in the View menu.
Select any object.
Grab the Scale tool.
Hold down the Shift key and try to scale the object.

Results:

The object will not be scaled at all.
The object will be scaled, but you have to exactly follow the Uniform smart guide and release the mouse button at the right moment. That just works accidentally (sort of), but it shouldn't be necessary to rely on the Uniform guide when you Shift scale with the Scale tool.

Possible workarounds: