Object dimensions to create consistently aligned diagrams and designs

  • 5 September 2022
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Turner Pijpers
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Userlevel 6

Hi Community,

Everything you need to create a great presentation or diagram is now right in Miro. Give your work a professional, polished look with alignment guides and dimensions. It’s now easier than ever to

  • Dimensions show the exact size of an object, space objects evenly or make them the same size
  • When turned on, guides appear as you drag an object on the board
  • Fine-tune your presentation designs, and ensure all your diagrams have consistency

 

Visit our help center to learn more. Let us know how you use dimensions.

Happy diagramming,

Turner

8 replies

Kiron Bondale
Userlevel 7
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@Turner Pijpers -

Great enhancement! This should address a lot of concerns users had raised in the past about being unable to do more precise drawings with Miro!

Kiron

Kiron D. Bondale, PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM II, ICP-ACC, DASSM, DAC, DAVSC, PMI-RMP
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Userlevel 1

Is it possible to enter a direct numeric value of the object dimension?

J

This is a great start!

One “Bug” is that the feature doesn’t work with an ad-blocker enabled. I disabled the blocker for miro.com and then the feature works as expected

It’s a very nice to see how large a shape is becoming, but I would really like to type values in the blue box of in some menu item somewhere. Maybe by double-clicking the blue dimension box.

I’m guessing the values are pixels? Will we eventually also be getting mm dimensions as well?

I tested the A4 frame and reports 961x1359 as size. 

Presuming the values are pixels, I get a pixel value of 116,235 pixels/inch when I enter this pixel dimension in Photoshop and set the size to A4 dimension. That's a really uncommon value, is this a BUG? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Masser

Creat to have object diemmnsions, but I too would like fame sizes be defined in mm not pixels.

Thanks, Paul

C
Userlevel 2

Setting size with pixels is not very helpful. 

  • Need inches & mm option.
  • Also need to be able to enter a value on-the-fly to change the size or set it on creation.

Any timing coming for this enhancement?

R

Yes, please. We need any type of option to type in fixed values for the size of content. It does not even need to be pixel based. Just a percentage of its original size would work. This way we can make images placed with the same dpi comparable to each other. 

P

Hey Turner,

I love Miro, and congrats for all the great work.

This “dimensions” feature is nice, but don’t advertise it as a solution for the so-desired “dimensions” feature I need and see so many others commenting. Plus the silent majority for sure.

My thoughts:

  • It’s kind of good (better than nothing) to be creating an object, and have a visual indicator of the current dimension.
  • A dimensions feature, as expected, would allow me to make a rough square, edit and define it’s dimensions… say w=350, h=200
    • Same for other objects, frames etc.
  • For printing, have pixels, and physical mm/inches
  • It’s not hard to imagine other softwares, doing this, right? Would you like some pointers.
  • Plus, there’s an API on the SDK to do this, so why isn’t that available on a UI, for the user?

Thanks, waiting on your thoughts!

Johan Stroman

Yes - having to translated pixels to mm and inches is not ideal for printing documents to a certain scale or for cutting out items

Any planned updates on this MIRO?

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