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Make Same Width or Height

Quick Reference: Make Same Width or Height

  • Hero Image

    Resizes objects to the same X or Y dimensions.

  • Location

    Arrange Toolbar

  • Keyboard Modifiers

    Hold Shift to lock aspect ratio.

The Make Same Width and Make Same Height buttons resize all objects in your selection to the width or height of a single object in the selection.

By default, all selected objects will be resized to the width or height of the last object you added to the selection. For exceptions to that rule, see below.

Using the Make Same Width and Height Tools

Both buttons are available in the Arrange Toolbar and Arrange (long) Toolbar.

Make Same Width and Height in Arrange Toolbar

Make Same Width and Height in Arrange (long) Toolbar

Option Icon
Make Same Width
Make Same Height

Select all objects you wish to resize, followed by the object whose width and/or height you wish to match, then click either Make Same Width or Make Same Height.

Grouped objects are treated as single objects when using the Make Same tools — the overall width or height of an object or entire Group will change to match the width or height of the last-selected object or other Group.

Hold Shift while clicking to lock the aspect ratio of the objects you're resizing, adjusting both dimensions at once.

Note

Holding Shift does not change both dimensions of objects in your selection to match those of the last-selected object — it only matches the selected dimension to that of the last-selected object, and adjusts the alternate dimension to maintain the same proportional length to the changed dimension.

For example, for a 40 mm (wide) x 20 mm (high) square, if you held Shift while clicking Make Same Width to match it to a 10 mm wide object, it would become a 10 mm x 5 mm square.

Resizing Priority

When using either of the Make Same options, all selected objects are matched to the width or height of a single object or Group in your selection.

The object that is matched to is determined according to the following priorities:

  • Selection order: by default, all objects are resized to match the last object you added to your selection.

  • Draw order: if you have nothing selected, then select multiple objects at once, they are matched to the first object in your selection's draw order. Use Push to front to move an object to the first position in the draw order.

  • Combined order: if you add multiple objects at once to an existing selection, all selected objects are matched to the first object in the draw order of the objects you added to your selection last.

  • If a single object in your selection is Locked, all objects are matched to the Locked object.

  • If multiple objects in your selection are Locked, the Locked objects are not matched, and the rest of the objects are matched according to selection order or draw order.

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