🚀 go-pugleaf

I would like for these options to be added to the Brush Options dialog:

1) "Scale Strokes" Checkbox
This would be similar to the option in the Transform Palette: "Scale
Strokes & Effects." The artwork in a Brush scales with the stroke of the
spine path to which it is applied. This is a very useful thing. But it
would be much more useful if strokes contained within the Brush artwork
did not have to scale also.

Just as you often need to scale objects or groups without their strokes
being scaled, I want to be able to use the scaling behavior of Brushes
to my advantage without the stroke weights being scaled.

For example: You create a Pattern brush which has the open end of a pipe
in the Start Tile; the closed end of a pipe in the End Tile, and just
strokes for the sides of the pipe in the Middle Tile. This lets you use
the Brush to instantly draw a pipe of any *length* you want.

But if the option I am requesting were present, you could also use this
brush to draw a pipe of any *diameter*. You could double its diameter by
simply changing the stroke weight of the spine path from 1pt. to 2pt.
But the visible strokes of the pipe would remain the weight at which
they were drawn.

Think how neat this would be for creating a Brush library for nuts,
bolts and other fasteners. One brush for each fastener type would
satisfy all sizes and lengths, yet all would be "drawn" with a uniform
line thickness.

2) "Stretch Middle To Fit" Radio Button
This would instruct Illustrator to scale the lengths of just the middle
tiles to make it fit the path, and leave the end and/or corner tiles alone.

3) "Center End Tiles" checkbox
I've requested this before, but this is a good place to mention it
again. When selected, it would cause the Start and End tiles of a
Pattern Brush to be centered on the path's endpoints, rather than always
beginning and ending with the endpoints. This would let you correctly
apply measured lengths to objects drawn with a Pattern Brush like that
described above for pipes.

JET