Quick, hopefully easy, silly question... Changing scale

goldgrae

Okay, so I know that right now, it's set up so that 1 pixel equals 1 mile. How can I change that? I'd like to make it so that 2 pixels equals a mile (effectively doubling the dimensions of the map), so that I can more easily do small details on the map rather than just the large scale portions. If you have any other suggestions, please share! Thanks!

Monsen

CC3 doesn't use the concept of pixels. Your map's dimensions are measure din map units, not pixels. The great advantage of these is that you can use decimal values for map units, something not possible with pixels. To work with smaller details, simply zoom in to the map. Your detail level is unlimited (for all practical purposes). You'll notice that when you zoom in, your view does not become pixelated like it would in a raster drawing program like Gimp or Photoshop.

If you wish to rescale an entire map, you can do so by using the Scale command, select everything (make sure all layers are unfrozen first), then scaling by a factor of 2.0, but you shouldn't do this for the purpose you describe, as you would end up with 2 map units per mile, which means all the measuring tools would report the distances at twice their correct value.

Pixels are only relevant for CC3 when printing or exporting to an image file, since these require hard pixel dimensions.

goldgrae

Yeah, I understand all of that. My real problems are with sheet effects, which rely on map units (I think) for how far out glows and such go... which does not scale very well at all.

Ralf

Yes, that's a problem, and making sheet effects relative to the map size is on our list of things to add. Currently you have to go through the sheet effects and change the values manually (I recommened saving them as a new setting afterwards).

That said, you can play around with the Drawing Properties > Map Units setting. That's probably the setting you're looking for. If you half the "Inches per unit" value, you effectively double the size of your map. If you leave the "Rescale" button unchecked this will not affect sheet effects, but you will only see a difference in the displayed distances if you you something else but "Numeric".

Note that all this has no effect on the detail you can actually put in the map.