How to scale an object on one axis for a constrained, proportional transform?

[Anonymous]

Hi there, I have just downloaded Sketchbook 2019, v 5.0.2 for Windows 10 - I do NOT have a touchscreen or drawing pen. 99% of the time I only want a selected object to scale proportionately, so the way Sketchbook seems to work is highly annoying.

I have spent several hours going through the tutorials and many other help pages to try and work out how to transform and scale the size of an object, constrained on one axis, so that as the object gets bigger or smaller, everything is proportional. I have tried holding down, ctrl/Fn/Alt buttons in various combinations while dragging corners with the cursor, but nothing seems to help.

I did find a couple of youtube vids which referred to a scaling puck in what look like earlier (2015) Apple versions, but my Windows version does not have this. Has the scaling puck been removed in later versions? Does it only exist for Macs?

All help gratefully received.

Thanks, Tim.

[david.lau · Accepted solution]

Use the desktop version of SketchBook.

www.sketchbook.com/thankyou

When you use the scale tool on the desktop version of SketchBook. the middle of the widget allows you to scale proportionally.  You can use the spacebar to navigate the canvas.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/SKETPRO/ENU/?guid=SKETPRO_Help_sb_tools_how_to_use_transforms_html

[Anonymous]

thanks for the fix David Lau. It is just annoying that it always seems the older/different/worse versions of software are the ones that are usually offered by Microsoft app store! The new 8.6 version looks vastly different - can't wait to test it out. Thanks again, T 🙂