Illustrator stroke in mm help

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March 13, 2024
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Hi everyone,

I am making a design for my laser and I need the dimensions to be exact but I have hit a snag with stroke width. I have drawn the design with default stroke width (I think it was 0.325 mm or similar) and then I needed to change that stroke to 3mm so when I change it to object is stays 3mm.

The problem is that for some reason 0.2mm stroke corresponds to 2.86mm in real time??? I thought I knew how stroke works but now I am just confused. Anyone have some advice on how to have 3mm stroke selected and actually for it to be correct in the drawing?

Thank you

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Monika Gause

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Did you scale the object?

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Miso27739864kpi3Author

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Hi Monika, no I did not scale it. The selected stroke is 0.2mm but in reality it corresponds to 3mm. It should be worth mentioning that this is a brush stroke.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

OK,that is logical. The brush has its own width and the stroke width acts as a multiplier to it. If you want this precise, get rid of the brush.

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