Select the Line Segment tool. Position the pointer where you want the line to begin, and drag to where you want the line to end. Click where you want the line to begin. In the dialog box, specify the Length and the Angle of the line. If you want to fill the line with the current fill color, select Fill Line. Then click OK.
Click and hold the Line Segment tool. Select the Arc tool. Click where you want the arc to begin. In the dialog box, click a square on the reference point locator to determine the point from which the arc is drawn.
Then set any of the following options, and click OK. Type : Specifies whether you want the object to be an open path or a closed path. Base Along : Specifies the direction of the arc.
Choose X Axis or Y Axis depending on whether you want to draw the base of the arc along the horizontal x axis or vertical y axis.
Enter a negative value for a concave inward slope. Enter a positive value for a convex outward slope. A slope of 0 creates a straight line.
Fill Arc : Fills the arc with the current fill color. Note : To see a dynamic preview of the arc as you set options, double-click the arc tool in the Tools panel. For a video on using shape tools, see How to draw basic shapes. Select the Spiral tool. Click where you want the spiral to begin. In the dialog box, set any of the following options, and click OK. Radius : Specifies the distance from the center to the outermost point in the spiral. Decay : Specifies the amount by which each wind of the spiral should decrease relative to the previous wind.
Segments : Specifies how many segments the spiral has. Each full wind of the spiral consists of four segments. The grid tools help you quickly draw rectangular and polar grids. Use the Rectangular Grid tool to create rectangular grids of a specified size with a specified number of dividers.
Use the Polar Grid tool to create concentric circles of a specified size and a specified number of dividers. Select the Rectangular Grid tool. In the dialog box, click a square on the reference point locator to determine the point from which the grid is drawn. Horizontal Dividers : Specifies the number of horizontal dividers you want to appear between the top and bottom of the grid. The Skew value determines how the horizontal dividers are weighted toward the top or bottom of the grid.
Vertical Dividers : Specifies the number of dividers you want to appear between the left and right sides of the grid. The Skew value determines how the vertical dividers are weighted to the left or right side. Use Outside Rectangle As Frame : Replaces the top, bottom, left, and right segments with a separate rectangular object.
Fill Grid : Fills the grid with the current fill color otherwise, the fill is set to none. Select the Polar Grid tool. Concentric Dividers : Specifies the number of circular concentric dividers you want to appear in the grid. The Skew value determines how the concentric dividers are weighted toward the inside or outside of the grid. Radial Dividers : Specifies the number of radial dividers you want to appear between the center and the circumference of the grid.
The Skew value determines how the radial dividers are weighted counterclockwise or clockwise on the grid. Create Compound Path From Ellipses : Converts the concentric circles into separate compound paths and fill every other circle.
Select the Rectangle tool or the Rounded Rectangle tool. To draw a square, hold down the Shift key while you drag diagonally until the square is the desired size. To see all of the hidden line tools, just click and hold the pointer over the Line Segment tool.
Just click on the small triangle on the right hand side of the hidden tool fly out. Select the Line Segment tool and do either one of the following:. When drawing a freehand line segment, you can constrain an angle to an increment of 45 degrees by holding down the Shift key as you draw the line segment.
To draw a line segment symmetrically around a central radius, hold down the Option Mac or Alt Windows key. To draw a freehand arc;. Select the Arc tool. Position the pointer where you want the arc to begin, and click and drag to where you want the arc to end. Hold down the Shift key to constrain the arc to increments of 45 degrees. Hold down the Option Mac or Alt Windows key as you draw to create an arc using the initial click point as a center point.
Click once on the artboard where you want the arc to begin. In the dialog box, click a square on the reference point locator to specify from which corner point the arc will be drawn. There are quite a few options to choose from here and my suggestion is to try them all so that you can get a feel for how they affect the curve.
Click OK. Length X Axis Specifies the width of the arc. Length Y Axis Specifies the height of the arc. Type Specifies whether you want the object to be an open path or a closed path. Base Along Specifies the direction of the arc.
Choose X Axis or Y Axis depending on whether you want to draw the base of the arc along the horizontal x axis or vertical y axis. You can see that the grayed out ones are already part of the toolbar, and the ones in white are not available currently and can be added to the existing toolbar.
If you scroll down the list of tools, you will find the measure tool. This can now be dragged and dropped onto the existing toolbar. It could be placed at the bottom of the panel where the blue line appears, as shown in the screenshot. Alternately if it is dragged onto an existing tool highlighted in blue , it will be grouped along with it, as illustrated in the screenshot.
This has the Measure tool by default. It has been grouped with the eyedropper tool. Now that we know how to access the Measure Tool let us understand all the information we can understand.
The information is available in the info panel. Measure tool draws a line along the path that needs to be measured. If you were to click and draw a line using the measure tool, you would get the:.
The information can be extremely useful for an architect or an interior designer to know the width of rooms, doors, and windows and know what furniture pieces would fit in a particular space.
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