{"id":1329,"date":"2012-11-02T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2012-11-04T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:41:59","slug":"resizing-blocks-in-r2012b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2012\/11\/02\/resizing-blocks-in-r2012b\/","title":{"rendered":"Resizing blocks in R2012b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I want to share two new ways of resizing blocks in R2012b. Those might seem very minor, but I think they can be very useful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Keeping Ratio<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If you hold the <strong>Shift<\/strong> key while resizing a block, this will force it to keep its width versus height ratio.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q4\/KeepRatio.gif\" alt=\"Resizing a block and keeping its ratio\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Resizing around the center<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If you hold the <strong>Ctrl<\/strong> key while resizing a block, it will resize around its center. Before this feature, I always ended up resizing a block and then moving it to recenter it!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q4\/KeepCenter.gif\" alt=\"Resizing a block and keeping its ratio\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Bonus<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Did you notice that this week I made my screen captures using Linux? In case you did not notice, I wanted to highlight that since R2012b, Simulink now looks the same in all supported operating systems.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Now it's your turn!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Let us know what you think about those new resizing options by leaving a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=1329&#comment\">comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I want to share two new ways of resizing blocks in R2012b. Those might seem very minor, but I think they can be very useful.\r\n\r\nKeeping Ratio\r\n\r\nIf you hold the Shift key while resizing a... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2012\/11\/02\/resizing-blocks-in-r2012b\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,16],"tags":[293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}