Designer: Editing many shapes at once?

[panjakrejn]

Let's say I have three rectangles that are 2.5" by .5" as in the leftmost group. I want to reduce the 2.5" to 2.0". Is there a way to do it to all three at once and end up with the rightmost image, NOT the central image?

Obviously in a real life example we could be talking about affecting more like 100 shapes at once, not just three, which are easy to do by hand one by one.

Thanks.

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[panjakrejn]

PS. In SketchUp (with which I am a little more familiar) you would do this by making the original shape a "component", then duplicating it. Then, when you edit any one of the shapes, they all are affected the same way.

[panjakrejn]

I just read something about Designer "symbols" - is that the same thing?

[v_kyr]

Yep, synchronized Symbols would offer that functionality for length & width changes etc.