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Design Sketch Basics Build a Mobile Interface Creating a Wireframe

Posted by Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
542 Points

How do I paste at a different scale?

When I select a group from an iOS UI template for iPhone 6 (width 750px) and copy it, and then paste it into my other document (iOS 6 artboard) also 750px wide, the element shows up at about 50% scale. http://cl.ly/image/3O1S1x06032S

Suggestions?

2 Answers

Christopher Downer
STAFF
Christopher Downer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Christopher Downer
Christopher Downer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Not sure if you've seen this thread; https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/ios-design-templates-too-small-for-iphone-artboard - explains why the artboards are a different size to the assets on the templates, I apologise for that!

To answer your question, you can't paste at a different scale as assets are at a fixed px. But if you did want to design at @2x, you can hit 'Scale' in the toolbar, and just type in 200% in the percentage field to double its size.

It might be worthwhile scaling the entire Artboard on the iOS template so it is 2x so you don't have to scale after pasting. (You can save this via File > Save as Template) as your changes won't override the template.

Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
542 Points
Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith
542 Points

Thank you Christopher Downer