How to scale paths along their direction properly?

[everfae]

So I made a logo in illustrator and imported it into AE, with each path on its own shape layer. I'm going to animate the paths so Im extending them all the way out.

When I scaled up my diagonal paths though they become non-parallel - so my anchor point must be off right? Would that be the anchor point of the shape layer or the anchor point of the Transform: Group 1 of the path? How would I recentre it so they scale parallel? What's going wrong here?  Here's what my layer looks like.

Thanks for your help.

[Omar.Fathy]

You can select the anchor points of the lines and drag all of it.
Or you can scale the all layer.
Can you clarify more what you need to do exactly..?!

[everfae]

I just need to extend the line and make it longer, that's really all but I can't find a straight-forward way and the scale is not working to well for me as I don't know what's up with my anchor points.

Later on i'll use trim paths or something to animate it.

[Kyle Hamrick · Accepted solution]

I was going to suggest Trim Paths. Just recreate those lines with strokes.

[everfae]

Yeah that might be the way forward!

[Mylenium]

I just need to extend the line and make it longer, that's really all but I can't find a straight-forward way and the scale is not working to well for me as I don't know what's up with my anchor points.

Doesn't work this way. A path is a path is a path and once it has been converted from the AI artwork, al lthe original transform and orientation is gone. If you wanted to control this, you'd have to create the path horicontally or vertically in AE and use nested groups and their transforms. It might be a good idea to educate yourself on that as just by looking at your screenshot and its unstructured hierarchy it's clear that you are totally unaware of this stuff.

Mylenium

[everfae]

Yes, I'm quite unaware really, I'm a beginner at After Effects, and ive not really worked with nested groups on shape layers before. Thank you for your help, I'll try this out, seems like a straightforward workaround for something that shouldn't really be a problem in the first place eh!

So to be clear, would I create a new shape layer containing a group 4 horizontal paths (made in AE not imported from Illustrator), and then use the group transformation to rotate them?

Thanks