Designer: How to resize selection and change the elements position (spacing) without scaling as well?

[rkrdart]

Hello,

like the title says, I want to space the elements out evenly with the outer elements touching the guide lines. It should be easily doable if in the initial state they are aligned and THEN you could use the resize handles without scaling them. Unfortunately this doesn't work. I tried the constraints tab but my elements get all messed up. How do people deal with aligning things? I find it very cumbersome to do it without these kind of utilities.

 

[v_kyr]

Welcome!

See ...

• Aligning objects
• Distributing/spacing objects
• Aligning and distributing artboards
• Design aids
  • ...
  • Grids
  • Isometric and axonometric grids
  • Ruler and column guides
  • Margins
  • Rulers
  • ...
  • Dynamic guides
  • Snapping
  • Curve snapping
  • Construction snapping for curves
  • Force Pixel Alignment
  • Constraints
  • Using snapshots

[thomaso]

Constraints can work if you want to scale an entire group of items without scaling the individual items (and modify the space between) – but it doesn't help to align the elements properly if they are unaligned.

Unfortunately sometimes you need to group items to get them aligned together. Here I would start with the third row (rounded rectangles T1 – T4). Group each of them, then select them all and use the align option "Space Horizontally". Then activate snapping and select + move the sets in every column above (e.g. top circle T1 … EOP) to make them snap centred with their according T1 – T4 group below.