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Pigeonkill
December 10th, 2007, 12:50 PM
Hello,
I know there are many Adobe guru here, so I was wondering if they were familar with this Adobe illustrator question.
How does one make a selection from a group of archor points and have them converge at a single point? Like at the sample at the right?(Which was done by hand) Is there a way make a selection and have them tamper towards the center with a special command button? Thanks in advance
GriNGo
December 10th, 2007, 09:27 PM
From what I know about Illustrator, and I have been using it for at least 3 years now, is that it won't merge vectors as a 3d program would. Which is annoying, but that's that. But anyways's if you just want to align the vectors (not merge them), it's easy. Just select the desired vectors, open the align tools, and click on the align to center buttons (both vertically and horizontally). VOILÁ! The vectors will converge in the middle of all the lines you selected the vectors from. PS: I use CS3 version... maybe in older versions it wont work.. i see you use CS2, so I think it will.
Jason Ross
December 11th, 2007, 12:55 AM
heres one way. make one line. click the rotate tool. point the center of rotation to the anchor point. then double click the same rotate tool and you should see the rotate dialogue box. set the angle to 1 degree. hit the copy button. then the easy part....Press and hold CTRL+D till you're satisfied.
Pigeonkill
December 12th, 2007, 01:03 PM
GriNGoLoCo:
Thanks, too bad the vectors can't merge but the alignment option you mention does the job just fine. I'm using CS2 so your directions worked smooth.
Jason Ross:
Thanks, that works great too. I like that angle option you mention for more accuracy.
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