Scaling with bounding box?

Glyphs
#1

(i realise i’m enquiring mainly about porting features from Illustrator over at the moment)

Would it be possible to have a bounding box for scaling, and also have the bounding box rotate like Illustrator.

See http://www.mobypicture.com/user/ahugewin/view/15605527

Also has relevance to http://glyphsapp.com/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=1&topic=1245

#2

As of now, you can rotate freely with the Rotate tool ®, scale freely with the Scale tool (S).

#3

But it doesn’t allow scaling along an axis parallel to a rotation applied, like the video?

#4

You don’t need a transformation box to achieve that goal. Rotate it, perhaps reposition it if necessary, then select the two nodes at the end, and when you start dragging, magnetic guidelines will appear.

#5

Ah, thanks again!

#6

Would it possible to have a hotkey that binds this magnetic guideline for dragging? For smaller adjustments it tends to pull off

#7

Press the ctrl key to temporarily disable snapping.