Scale and Measure?

[Billybucks]

Good day to all ..im new here & a newbie with Ai

Been using EasySign for over 18years & planing of switching to Ai.

       So ... my question is ... if I take a picture of something ,let's say ,a Shop Front !

  I normally take a simple measurement of ...lets say,the width of the window.

     Then I put the picture on the Easy SIGN software ...use a tool (transform-scale & measure)

Will place the mouse over the edge of the window & move to the other edge of the window.

     Then enter the measurement I took of the width & Press Enter.....&the whole photo will enlarge to proportion.

Then I can measure every thing on the picture & will not be far off the actual measurements.

How can I do that in Adobe Illustrator?

Thanks in advance

  Felix

[Title edited by moderator. Was “Need some help”]

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You can't do that in Illustrator. Most of the time the storefront will be much larger than Illustrator's max document size.

And then you also don't have such a tool in Illustrator. There are CAD plugins that can add it.

[Billybucks]

Thanks for the Reply

So on Ai I cannot create a mere 5 mtrs Sign ?

[Monika Gause]

That will work.

Max document size is about 6 x 6 metres.

For larger sizes you will have to work in scale.

[Billybucks]

Thanks Again ...

Been looking on you tube & getting some education already .

The Ai limits are endless & can't wait to become a fluent user in Ai

Thanks for now.

Felix

Sent from Samsung tablet.

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome.

In order to work in scale you could check out the plugins:

- CAD tools (kind of the CAD standard plugin, expensive)

- VectorScribe (among its tools is a measure tool that allows you to set up scales)

- ToolShed Adobe Illustrator plugins — rj-graffix  (allows you to scale objects to a certain size)