Andy,
This generally how Dia works: a general flexible, customisable method will be implemented and applying the customisation is left to the user.
What ask for would restrict function.
You can probably create a work around. If you have a Dia that works for you, where your shapes are the size you like when you place them, take note of the preferences, page setup, and so on to create an empty Dia you can call up as a starting point.
But the general implementation expects you will want to resize shapes.
You might explore using a grid and grid snap for getting sizes uniform on the canvas.
There is one important feature of the Dia paradigm/work flow, you draw without regard to absolute scale, getting things to look good, then you set up the page or pages around it. There are functions for zooming and scaling-they are not the same. Experimenting with them will be useful to see how they work.
I should mention that I am not an expert creating shapes. I never liked how that works. I draw things, group them and ungroup as needed, I often cut and paste the groups to a "storage" Dia, then copy and paste them back into my "working" Dia. The storage Dia is a tab of the viewport (as is the working Dia) that functions almost like another set of shapes in the sheet palette.
Mike
Thank you for your kind reply. I just want my shapes not to be resized
on the canvas.
Kind regards,
Andy
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:
> It used to be the shape sizes were in centimeters within Dia. A 1 x 1 shape
> would be 1cm x 1cm.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Andrey <anrdaemon yandex ru> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings, Andy Ng!
>>
>> > I would to design some new shapes, but I don't want those to be
>> > resized when placed on canvas. Is there any way to achieve that?
>>
>> You can't really prevent the resize, I don't think. Else you wouldn't be
>> able
>> to print your diagrams to scale.
>> But you can specify starting size - "<default-width>...</default-width>"
>> tag.
>>
>>
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>> Andrey Repin
>> Wednesday, August 10, 2016 19:26:49
>>
>> Sorry for my terrible english...
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