Changing size of a path while copying it?

[Michael Domino]

Hi

Just thinking...

In the old Aldus/Macromedia Freehand, there was a function where you could scale and copy a path in one step. The same way as you can alt-shift-drag an object to copy it to another position.

It was alt-shift-drag a corner handle, and I used it a lot. Is there a way to make someting similar i Illustrator? (fx when drawing wheels with a lot of circles inside each other)

I know how to copy/paste-in-front and then resize, and use the scale tool and tick "copy", but it is still more steps

I know that FreeHand was a long time ago, but there is still a lot of "muscle memory" :·)

++michael

[tonyharmer · Accepted solution]

Use the scale tool and hold down SHIFT to constrain, with ALT/Option to make the copy.

Nice to see another old-timer.

[Michael Domino]

Beautiful - Thankyou - I was thrown because it apparently is important that you FIRST hold down shift and THEN alt :·)

++m

[Michael Domino]

You're right - nice to know I'm not the only one - you do nice work :·)

I was wondering if you also have a quickfix for "fit-selected-in-window" - It would be helpful i many cases :·)

++m