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Questions about the set of geographical primitives (ellipse, line, rectangle, polygon, Bézier curve) represented as vector mediums. Custom shapes can be produced by combining any of the aforementioned primitives.
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How do I equally space the pieces of a split shape in Illustrator?
Draw your hexagon;
Open the Attributes palette (Windows > Attributes) and click the Show Center button--a square with a dot in the middle. This will cause your hexagon's center to be shown as an anch …
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Illustrator: how to recreate a sun-shaped background shape?
Sometimes a shape's negative is easier to make than the shape itself.
Draw a white cirle;
Draw a white, vertical line with its midpoint on the circle's; make it extend both its ends beyond the edge …
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Design wordcloud to fit custom shape with common software?
Do it by hand. As far as I know, there is no function beyond Taxedo (named in the question you referenced, and it's where your third example comes from) that will fully automatically create word-cloud …
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Wrapping Shapes to match other shapes
You can get a somewhat decent effect by using a pattern brush and the width tool.
Draw a unit cell, and draw a no-fill-no-stroke rectangle around it:
Select all of this and drag it into the Brushes …
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Illustrator: how to create a spirograph?
This way, you can create multiple different shapes in a jiffy.
You can experiment with all the other settings to make the most amazing art this way. …
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Is there a way to draw preset 'custom shapes' in InDesign?
One way is to find a typeface that has the shape you want as a character. Type it on its own in a text box, then choose Type > Create Outlines (Shift+Ctrl+O or Shift+Option+O) to turn it into a vector …
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How do I make a shape not show outside its stroke in Illustrator
You might want to separate the stroke and the fill here, in order to edit the fill. Duplicate the shape, and have one be a strokeless fill and the other a fill-less stroke. Edit the fill object so it …
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How to change the colour of a wire frame in Adobe Illustrator?
I'm going out on a limb and suppose you've created the wireframe using the Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel effect. In that case:
Unfortunately, there is no way of doing this and keep the 3D effect edit …
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How to exactly align shapes in order to unite them in Illustrator?
First, you might want to deactivate all snapping (also to pixel grids and all, see this question).
Then:
activate the Smart Guides (View > Smart Guides or Ctrl / Option+U);
select the move tool (V) …
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Spacing objects equally in shape?
Draw two identical vertical lines, one aligning with the left side of the
square, one with the right;
Select both of them and select the blend tool (W);
Click the top anchor of each line with the ble …
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How to combine lines into a shape?
select all lines, as they are in your example;
select the Shape Builder tool in the toolbox, hotkey Shift+M;
click all areas between your lines to change them into objects.
Now you can colour and c …
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How to make positioning of lines around circle or curve
There's multiple ways you could achieve this, but most of them are taking a couple steps back: redraw the entire graphic, starting with image 1 and editing that into image 2.
An example:
draw a cir …
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How to delete one shape from another in Illustrator CS4?
It might be a good idea to make copies of the hand shapes in advance (and paste them in front, Ctrl+F and lock and/or hide them) so you have spare copies of the same shape. …
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How can I make an infinite blend in Illustrator?
Using the layers palette, order the shapes from bottom to top: starting shape - ending shape - copy of ending shape. …
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Effectively creating this effect in Illustrator?
This is most effectively achieved by offsetting the path of the front shape, and subtracting the resulting shape from all the shapes in the back, using the Pathfinder. …
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