Just wondering when will be the launch of Designer X5?
Suggestions:
After changing the scale from, say, 1:1 to 2:1, it will be good if the user can select the items to scale down according to the scale changed rather than manually highlighting the objects and shrink by 50% to get the correct size. Selecting the items to scale down would be necessary as wording such as titles may not need to scale.
Interesting thought - thanks for that!
Right now the Scale in the Ruler setup is designed to set the tools and rulers in the active document for acting with that set scale. A changed scale does not affect the objects that are already existing in the document. This is important as you say that not all objects on a page should be rescaled or even created to a specific scale.
For an automatic rescaling of objects after changed scale factor - how do you want those objects to behave regarding position? The default behaviour when selecting and scaling multiple objects is to scale from the center of that selection. This might not always be the desired way of repositioning the objects so in that case you will need to select those groups of objects individually again to maintain their position in the drawing in the required way.
Did you know that the dynamic dimensions (values of the dimension text) also do not change when changing the scale? Only when touching such a dimension object (either by moving its dimension line or by changing one of the anchor objects) it will recalculated - based on the actual scale that has been set in the document at that time.
Many users like this as it enables drawing portions at different scales within one drawing page. You can have a 1:100 scale overview in one part of the page and create 1:10 or other scaled more detailed parts within the same page.If you want to make sure you don't change objects that don't belong to the current scaled portion of the drawing you should use different layers and lock those layers that are not under revision at current scale.
I am a sign designer using CorelDraw 12 . On all of my proofs, I have been drawing the drafting lines and measurements manually and noticed the dimensions tool. Works great but when I shrink the layout from full scale for proofing the measurements change in the drafting lines. Is there a setting that I can select that will keep the actual production measurements of the drawing no matter how I resize it for proofing?
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