In this quick tip I show you how to make a simple gear illustration using the transform tool. Let me know if you have any requests for quick tips!
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Rob Barrett - Nice Hot Cuppa says:
Great tip, Niki! It’s definitely one of those things that are so easy to do once you’ve figured out the method, but you could spend ages just thinking about how to get to that point.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Kristin says:
Aha, I had no clue there was a step and repeat sort of feature that could do that. Hurrah!
July 14th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Eddie Giese says:
Great tip! Might I offer one small suggestion?
If you hold down Alt (Option on the Mac) with Shift while drawing the ellipse/circle it will draw from the center. With smart guides on, you can “snap” to the exact center of the gear to create the hole with one small step. No alignment is necessary that way. Could save some time…
Thanks for your kewl and useful tips!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Bjørn Friese says:
@Eddie Giese:
I’m on my Windows desktop right now, but as far as i remember holding alt makes it draw the circle from center, and holding shift makes it do a constrained (1:1) circle.
Using smart guides combined with drawing the circle constrained and from center would lessen the number of steps quite dramatically.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:17 am
guest says:
I think flash sucks
January 19th, 2010 at 3:16 am