Stroke Weights Affecting Shape Size

[Luciana5C32]

I don't know what update did this, but my strokes are all messed up! This is a little complicated to explain, but stroke weight is changing the sizes of my shape. For instance, if I make a 2" x 2" stroked square and change the stroke weight from 1 to 3, suddenly the shape is now 2.0417" not 2. The only way I have found to remedy this, and it's not a fool proof fix, is to change the stroke from "Align stroke to center" to "Align stroke to Inside". This still doesn't always fix my problem. I'm trying to build templates at full scale, and when I shrink them down to quarter scale it drastically changes the size of my shape. I made a full scale build of a deck that I'm building. I had to scale it down for the city and when I did, it went from 2.13" high, to 2.03" I then had to change my stroke weight and reinput my overall height to get something close to an accurate scaled version. I have NEVER had this issue until recently. I've tried turning off the scale stroke thickeness, but that is NOT a viable option. I am so frustrated by this. Everything I'm making and designing is losing accuracy and causing me more work!

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

In the Align panel menu or Preferences > General, untick 'Use Preview Bounds'.

[Luciana5C32]

OMG I'm so happy, I'm going to cry. It's finally working like it's supposed to. It must of reverted to that option during an update. I have been struggling with this for far too long. Thank you so much!