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- nosaj
Is there an easy way to duplicate a shape multiple times in Illustrator? I have a square and I want 10 copies of it down and 10 across with equal spacing between them. Is there a way to do this automatically?
- gruntt0
draw a large box that would cover the space that you want to cover with the rows of individual squares. Go to Type>Rows and Columns... you'll see from there.
- nosaj0
Very close. The squares I need to duplicate have rounded corners though. I was hoping to be able to auto duplicate mulitples of the origionally shape.
- meok0
Theres a lot of ways to do this.
Try first with the blend tool. There you can specify the # of in-between squares or distance between them. Very handy.
Or
Duplicate a bunch of the original square by alt-draging them, then, in the Align Pallette: center (either horizontally or verticaly) and then click on the distribute distance button. Wich is also in the align pallete.
- gruntt0
oh i see -
option+shift+drag shape
command+D (x8)
then select whole column of squares and repeat.