# Expando Line
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/expando-line/60682
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/expando-line/60682 "2004-08-11T16:14:09Z")
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### Author:  [@sckoobs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sckoobs)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/expando-line/60682/1 "2004-08-11T16:14:09Z")
I’m having trouble crating a line whose width increases from 1 to 115 in a motion tween. It seems that as it increases in width, the line thickness also increases, which is annoying and I have no idea why this happens, anyway here is the process I use:
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[_]Create a line set width to 1
[_]Convert to a movie clip
[_]Set initial keyframe for start of tween
[_]Set second keyframe for end of tween
[_]With second keyframe still selected click on line and set width to 115
[_]Right click inbetween the two keyframes and select Create Motion Tween
[/list] Am I going about it totally the wrong way? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/expando-line/60682/2 "2004-08-11T17:28:42Z")
try creating a rectangle with a width of 1 that should maintain the proportions correctly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/expando-line/60682/3 "2004-08-11T17:35:17Z")
use hairline
If you want a thicker line… its not going to happen uniformly (you’ll get the scaling you’ve experienced so far) - at least not using lines. You can use a thin filled rectangle and scale that, though. The only downside is that you have non-rounded ends/corners. If you’re only dealing with a single line, thats usually not a problem. With more interconnected lines you would need to make caps and/or joints to compensate.