# Awesome stuff ! couple of questions with scaling

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108 "2017-06-18T09:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekiden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@ekiden](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/ekiden)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108/1 "2017-06-18T09:07:52Z")

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Hi,  
First of all, I just purchased the pro app, and it is fabulous. Coming from sketchup i have to adapt a bit to the new way of doing things, but looks very impressive so far, especially on my new ipad pro 10,5".

I was wondering if it was possible at all to scale an imported image, for example a floor plan that I want to use as a base for my model. In sketchup you could import an image, click on 2 points and enter a distance, and it would scale the image accordingly… anything similar here that I’ve missed ?

keep up the awesomeness !

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108/2 "2017-06-18T09:13:29Z")

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Of course, when you import an image, you can set the exact dimensions with the white labels.

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**Author:** ![ekiden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@ekiden](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/ekiden)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108/3 "2017-06-18T09:27:14Z")

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OK, I get how you set the dimensions of the image itself, but say you have a jpeg with a floor plan, for example this one attached, ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/1X/eb551a3484bf7e128a5235d9d0582112022b8d75.jpg)

How can i make sure that the floor plan itself is scaled ? as it is smaller than the actual picture dimension ? Am i missing something here ? For example I know the dimensions of the basketball court, so how can I translate that in Shapr3D?

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108/4 "2017-06-18T12:59:13Z")

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For example you can draw a line with the given length, and scale the plan according to that. Or you can just cut the margin of the image.

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**Author:** ![GeraldVowles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@GeraldVowles](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/GeraldVowles)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/awesome-stuff-couple-of-questions-with-scaling/1108/5 "2017-06-19T20:40:07Z")

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Ekiden, the way someone explained it to me once is that a jpeg like the one you posted here is not a drawing; it is only a picture of a previous drawing so there are no real drawing elements to work with. Hope that helps a bit.