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- nylon
So I have this design that I am working on...
It is a flat circle and a flat triangle coming together - they will interlock.
Client now wants to see different line thicknesses of circle and triangle ie rather than the circle being 5mm thick all the way around, they want to see it 5mm at the 'back' and 10mm at the 'front' to suggest it is on an axis/3d effect...
How would you draw this please?
- detritus0
k, it's a bit clumsy, but you can sorta bodge this by:
• Create circle at 5mm, create another at 10mm, 30% transparency both (so you can see each). these will be visual guides. lock.
• create a third circle at the larger or smaller dimension, then go to Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel, set all axis to zero, then play with Y and Perspective, eyeballing against the two visual circles you fiorst created, with Preview set to On.
- detritus1
If it doesn't need to be accurate, but is just to imply depth, you might also try creating a circle with a 5mm stroke, then manually squish into an oval, then use the Stroke Width tool to expand the foreground aspect.
- nylon0
FUCK ME!
I never even knew the width tool existed!!!
This is AWESOME!!!
Thank you!
- Aye,it's a doozy of a tool - it's the singlemost useful feature Adobe have added to Illy in almost a decade. And it's about a decade old now.detritus
- ...which is to say: Adobe's subscription model is a fucking rip off.detritus
- That tool can be a bit addictive, especially if you're a doodly type of hippy like me.CyBrainX