Thanks, I had seen the Align option, but wasn't sure how it could be used to scale. A combination of methods will eliminate having to reinsert the image.

Hi Don, oops one other thing - you were describing deleting the image and then inserting a new one. You don't actually need to insert a new one because you can snap an existing image on to a line that you have already created separately.

When you go into the Image command, existing images are editable by clicking and dragging on them inside the viewport, and if you start your drag near a corner point (grab somewhat towards the inside of the image so that you don't get the scaling grip), that will snap on to the image corner and allow you to place the corner point exactly.

So you can do that to move the corner of an image on the endpoint of a horizontal line (which you have created in a previous step at the desired size), and then grab the scaling grip on the opposite corner of the image and drag it to the end of the line where it will snap. The trick is that you've got to grab the upper-right scaling grip of the image because you want the lower-right corner to be the fixed point of the scale, and then you drag down and release it over the endpoint of the horizontal line.

There are a couple of previous posts that have some animations showing this, I'll dig those out.

- Michael

Thanks Michael,

I appreciate that this has been added to the wish list. I believe I have it sorted now, but wanted to be sure I had not missed something obvious.

Hi Don, we were posting at the same time, so you may not have seen my 2nd reply above.

Check out this animation for a demo of how to position and scale an existing image to match the size of a horizontal line by first dragging it, and then using the scale grip:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2501.15

That one is showing aligning it to another image, but aligning to a drawn line is the same.

Note that the tricky part is that when you go to scale it you need to grab the upper-right scaling grip and then drag that one to the end of the line. You want to grab that one because you want the bottom-left corner to stay fixed at the start of the line where you just dragged it, and when you drag from the corner the scale origin is fixed to the opposite corner from where you are dragging from (unless you click and release on a corner grip instead of dragging on it, which toggles the scaling mode between "scale from opposite corner" to "scale from center" modes).

Here's another video showing a similar kind of alignment to an existing rectangle:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1982.6

And a few various methods including the Align tool are shown here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2501.14

- Michael