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- iamjustoneman
Ok, quite embarrassing, basically, I do this a fair bit and it takes far to long to do and is never accurate:
So the arrow cut out in a path, I end up having to create a square, rotate it, cut the top point out, nudge it down, its never perfect and if the panel below is a different colour it gets interesting.
I think the shape builder might be good but never seems to work right, embarrassing but whats an efficient way?
- monospaced0
Shift click with smart guides on. 5 clicks and done.
- Pen tool.monospaced
- /thread?monospaced
- not sure i follow, just want a border that continue then dips out into an arrowiamjustoneman
- You can draw that with the pen tool in a couple of clicks and the shift key. Trust me.monospaced
- It snaps to horizontal alignment and 45degree angle so it's basically automatic.monospaced
- mono is correct. "add" 3 points equidistant on the path with the pen tool. select middle point and nudge down.Gnash
- Gotcha, will do that.iamjustoneman
- I wasn't even talking about adding points to a line, I meant just clicking using the smart guides that snap to angles. Even simpler.monospaced
- What Mono said.grotesk_neue
- iamjustoneman0
so this bit is pretty quick:
Then need to cut the rectangle that runs the across the arrow out when it intersects with the arrow, kind of thing the pathfinder, or the shape builder should do it but never does
- omfgmonospaced
- that's just too much work, sorrymonospaced
- monospaced2
- hold SHIFT and make sure the Smart Guides are ONmonospaced
- Because it snaps to both 0° and 45° simultaneously, you can make a perfect triangle almost automatically.monospaced
- Lol.grotesk_neue
- iamjustoneman1
Thanks monospaced, silly me.
- s'all good man! Hope your Illustrator use gets more efficientmonospaced
- uan0
- a well...well answered yet :)uan
- that only works if you space the points out evenly though, which I'm not sure you didmonospaced
- thisGnash
- no i didn't take the time to evenly space them out..was .measuring by eye:)uan
- detritus0
Looks like you've already had the right answer, but your first image looks like up to four seperate lines, with the two jagged ones simply being unjoined.