Scaling line art from imported paths while maintaining single stroke weight

[ilenel44491082]

Hello,

I am very new to this. I recently learned how to maintain a consistent stroke weight when scaling a path in AE. However, I have not been able to find a way to maintain a consistent stroke weight when scaling imported art such as an AI file. Is this even possible? I have imported a layer from AI which has only a few paths, all strokes are the same weight. When scaled in AE I would like the stroke weight to stay the same, not scale. I'm hoping these is a way to do this other than bringing all the paths into AE separately.

Thanks!

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

No, there is no way. As long as it's a solid file, AE treats it as such - an abstract container. It has no way to peek inside. Any other options only become available when you convert the artwork to shape layers and a stroke effect is created. Of course you can re-organize the shapel ayer groups to facilitate your workflow - applying a stroke to the entire group will apply it to all paths in the group - so you don't have to deal with reduzndant stroke controls and separate paths.

Mylenium

[ilenel44491082]

Thanks,

I ended up converting the file to shape layers as suggested and it works great!