Maintaining stroke weight proportionally in scales

when i give a path a stroke weight and then scale and then scale it down, the stroke weight remains in the same. how can i get the stroke weight to scale proportionally too.
example: when I make a logo, I assign a stroke of 2 pts to the graphic. then I scale it down to a business card size and the stroke weight remains 2 pts which is too much for a tiny graphic. also when I scale it up, the stroke weight proportionally appears to be too thin... please help

You can also make that change in the flyout menu in the Transform Panel.
Peter

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3D Effect outlines strokes in order to make them scale. (There should be an option to turn this behavior off when you don't want it, as I often don't.)
One of Illustrator's fundamentally poor interface schemes is the cumbersome way you have to edit objects that have live effects applied. They are "invisible" unless selected, so you have to continually "grope in the dark" for the object you want to edit. That in itself is further exacerbated by Illustrator's hideous "direct selection" scheme.
Workarounds for that are to use the original ortho drawing to define a Symbol, and then apply the 3D Rotate Effect to an instance of the Symbol. Then, you can perform editing on the Symbol itself, and actually see what you are doing. Alternatively, switch to Outline View to edit the ortho. (The problem there is, Group Isolation Mode inexplicably doesn't work in Outline View, so you have to resort to Cut/PasteInFront to get any new objects you add into the right Group.
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4. Select the green Instance. Edit its 3D Rotate Appearance, numerically rotating the proxy cube 90 degrees about one axis.
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Now, by editing those three Symbols, you can draw paths into the three perpendicular planes.
All this is quite cumbersome and awkward compared to a program that has a proper interface designed specifically for 2D perspective construction (see FreeHand), especially given that Illustrator's 3D Effect does not allow you to position multiple objects at different locations/orientations in the same 3D coordinate system. But the effort does yield the lighter-stroke-weights-in-the-distance you want.
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My preflight program is flagging illustrations with less than a .2 stroke weight and finding these instances can be a reall bugger. The preflight will give the >.2 value so I tried going back to the illustration and creating a line with the offending pt value and selecting same stroke weight but it won't select them. Once I have manually found the small stroke weight I've compared the two strokes for any differences but it won't select even when the color is the same and stroke=default appearance. Once I select the original line and do the select same stroke than it finds the other instances just fine. Anyone know whats going on? I'm using Illustration CS4 and the files are all .ai.
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For anyone looking at thread I found a quick solution on the forum...
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> So what I wanted to do is to force all the paths that were thinner than 0.25 to 0.25. I think I can't do it inside Illustrator. But maybe I'm wrong ? 1. Line Tool: Draw a line. Give it a stroke of .01 pt.
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I'd like to make it easier for our 100,000 designers to use AI to make custom products using a laser cutter.
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Designers open our AI laser cutting design templates, add their designs using the AI settings our online pricing system can read, then upload their designs to our website for instant pricing, making and shipping.
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Designers have to manually setup AI with settings that can be read by our online pricing system. If they get these settings wrong, our system can not read their designs. So they are rejected and can not be priced or made. This happens more often that you'd imagine.
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Your first point - yes, that's what our system does currently. As a result designers get lots of 'how to fix' messages as a result of design rejections. We wish to reduce these rejections and resulting 'how to fix' messages by limiting their choices in AI - because this is where the problems are created.
Ok, yeah gotcha, so customers/designers think they do it right (cough/laugh) upload, then get surprised to find out they didn't by your upload system. That's kind of what I thought. I feel your pain. ;-) I sense you want to reduce this aspect to keep the customers/designers happy and thinking they do nothing but work magic all day right? ;-) So you don't want to lose customers in the midst of frustration of file rejection thinking there files are right and your system is certainly wrong, when in fact it's the opposite. Good luck explaining that to a designer however, right? ;-)
Ponoko wrote:
Your second point - You go on to talk about using a complex "action" we could distribute within the design templates. Although I suspect this is different, the path we're thinking is to include something in the templates that, when imported into AI, sets AI with the color palette we need, line weight we need. Possible?
As Monika hinted at you can't rigidly restrict or control what a user is allowed to do and use in Illustrator. You can try to reduce the parameters by saving the file as a Template.ait file, but even then they can muck about all day until they mess things up again, plus you have no control whatsoever even then as to whether they use fills, the stroke weights, etc. That is why I mentioned various things to manipulate the file once they deem it completed and ready to submit/upload. Basically a method to fix what they messed up or did incorrectly and instead set things as they should be for submission as I previously mentioned. I mentioned you may be able to create a complex Illustrator "action" action.aia that they run to process these requirements. I am not sure if such an action could be accomplished as all inclusive (perhaps though) otherwise you could as stated do it through scripting and a script they run: script.jsx to prepare the requirements, or an actual standalone helper app you create and provide like I mentioned above as well.
I see for CorelDRAW & Inkscape you require SVG, why not change that for Illustrator also so all your 2D app submissions are SVG based? Then manipulate the SVG server side, point out the changes and why and have the customer approve the new modified SVG Preview of the needed changes and move along with the process from there? Make all the requirement changes on the server by manipulating the SVG. You should have access to all of the requirements: RGB color model, stroke weight, stroke colors, fill colors, create font outlines, image tracing? I am just tossing out ideas here, get your programmers busy, tell them to stop playing video games and "make it so". ;-)
But even so, this then begs the question: What are you doing to circumvent the same issues for inept CorelDraw and Inkscape users?
Since, they have the same freedom to do things incorrectly and misaligned with the requirements, just as Illustrator users do.
Regardless though of the approach customers/designers may not like seeing certain things changed even minutely in trivial amounts and thusly be just as upset or up in arms with the changes to their pretty design files that they think were not needed in the first place, how dare you undermine them ;-). Same as seeing the file rejection from your system upon upload. Again I feel your pain. You have your Application/File requirements requirements stated nicely and plainly, it should be pretty easy for most, but sadly I guess not.

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