# Line thickness, marker size scales in Makie

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/line-thickness-marker-size-scales-in-makie/65447
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/line-thickness-marker-size-scales-in-makie/65447 "2021-07-28T16:17:35Z")
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### Author: ![keithjlee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/keithjlee/32/19469_2.png) [@keithjlee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/keithjlee)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/line-thickness-marker-size-scales-in-makie/65447/1 "2021-07-28T16:17:35Z")

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I’m currently trying to make sense of how Makie (GLMakie) deals with scaling of element sizes.

I’m trying to make a quick function that visualizes structures for finite element analysis, just simple points and lines that make up the skeleton of a truss or building etc. My current problem is since structures come in a variety of scales, and analysis units can be anywhere from millimeters to meters, it’s currently a trial and error process to get scaling of the features to look right.

I first assumed linewidth, markersize values were on some absolute scale, so I tried making a crude autoscaling functing, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

Is there some autoscale function in Makie that I’m unaware of?