Scaling in Illustrator

[RMCrawley]

Hi all, I hope you can help me here.

What I need to do is to mock up a

20m x 20m Boat Yard to a scale from a birds eye view.

I guess the mock up would be printed on a A3 piece of paper.

Then, choose a boat from adobe stock showing a birds eye view.

I need to then scale these boats do different sizes so that we can move them around on a 20m x 20m mock up and make sure we can fit them all in the boat yard.

There are 10 boats. The biggest dimensions out of these boats are 9.7m x 3m

How is best to do this and what workflow using Illustrator?

I'd really be grateful for help.

cheers.

[JonathanArias]

Why are you not working in photoshop, are these photos?

[RMCrawley]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/guekhiotqs5t11a/AdobeStock_157587009.ai?dl=0

Dropbox - Scale HOM Scibs Yard.ai

Ive done this to 0.1 scale factor.

or 1/10th.

20m x 20m

breaks down as

2m or 2000mm in illustrator.

then I was going to scale the boats

10 different sizes.

[Omar.Fathy]

You can use the image trace panel in Illustrator to convert it to shapes then you can scale it as you need.

Just select your image.

- Go to Window>image trace

- from image trace panel select colors then Limited and add the number of colors in the image (11 colors in your image )

- then press Expand or from Objrct>Expand

[RMCrawley]

thanks for your help.

I made a screen recording of myself trying to achieve this.

Dropbox - scaling.mp4

[Ray Yorkshire · Accepted solution]

Illustrator doesn't easilly work in scale, probably better to use a 3D program for this like Trimble Sketchup, with model s from the warehouse.

but anyway, to do it here you could just in cm instead of metres.

eg

Make a new document artboard  20 by 20 cms- (you can add a rectangle border with fill later and send to back later)

That white  artboard area is your dock

I'd go View> Hide Grid and turn of Snap to pixel under View.

To add your boat:

Edit > Place  and navigate  to where the AI stock boat is saved ,untick the import options and place it anywhere on the artboard.

Select > Deselect.

To delete that unnecessary  grey background around the boat:

In the layers panel  Window > Layers.

Expand open the layer by clicking the little triangle

select and delete the background all inside the panel

To change the boat color:

With the Direct selection tool (the white arrow in the tools)

select the white hull of the boat and give it a different fill colour,  eg from Swatches so you can see it better

Select > Deselct

then using the normal  Selection Tool (the Black arrow)

click on the boat to select it

open the transform panel Window >Transform

Unclick the link, and change the Wiidth and hieght to resize the boat

Copy the boat and respray, resize etc

[RMCrawley]

very comprehensive answer. thank you so much for taking the time.

Ill take a look at following these instructions now. thanks. Ill get back to you.

[RMCrawley]

Awesome. thank you so much for your help. I love this community.