# Keeping stroke size the same when scaling mc

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-stroke-size-the-same-when-scaling-mc/152824>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-stroke-size-the-same-when-scaling-mc/152824 "2005-06-27T17:10:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![graylensman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@graylensman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/graylensman)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-stroke-size-the-same-when-scaling-mc/152824/1 "2005-06-27T17:10:02Z")

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I’ve got a circle that’s 10 px by 10px, with a 1 px stroke. I want to scale this to, say 800%, but maintain the 1 px stroke. I want to avoid using a shape tween on a mc timeline, but I have been unable to discover the actionscript that will do what I want to achieve. Any hints? thanks!