Illustrator Help (School Project)

shintastic48

shintastic48

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So I don't really feel like asking my teacher for help on this particular thing. So I came to you all at NS. Just curious as to how I could make the object with the arrow pointing to it like perfectly spaced. By perfectly spaced I mean like the distances between lines. I tried making like a triangle of the lines then adding a circle to the bottom of it but it looks strange to me. Any ideas?
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Very true. I'm just so big on figuring stuff out on my own. I think i'm just going to make a circle similar to that and mess around with layers and stuff
 
Find the align window, it may be paired with the pathfinder. There's options for distribute, which will evenly space them. You might have to create separate objects first, and the lines might have to be straight up and down or horizontal.

Basically you need to build it out of several groups of lines and arcs, align them then assemble it. That's what I would do, probably other ways to do it.
 
option drag a copy and then hit commmand D to duplicate that step. (repeat till enough copies are made.
or
at the top select effectdistort and transformtransform...enter number of desired copiescheck the preview buttonthen play with scale and a move settings to your liking.
Thats how I would go about something like that. Or you could always use the pen tool to make all your shapes. then make a selection of all the shapes and go to the align palette and try distribute left or horizontal distribute center.
Lots of ways to do things like that. Just have to decode which one works best for what specific thing you are doing.

 
sorry for the double post but I just did it with a simmilar shape as yours.
I craeted one shape with the pen tool and used a black stroke no fill. Then went to the transform tool mentioned above and then checked preview and about 15 copies dragged the horizontal spacing over till enough space in-between and then changed the scale to about 98 in both spots.
Then changed the stroke every few to make some look fatter.
 
dude you decided to ignore your paid instructor and ask idiots on NS? I mean, at least you asked in m&a but still, email/ask your teacher.
 
Yeah my paid instructor will yell at me and tell me that i'm an idiot for making it to the third part of an illustrator course and didn't know how to do something like that.
 
The pen tool is your friend. If the concentric lines are all the same, just make one and alt+drag it. If the shapes change make the first and last one, then object>blend>make specified steps. Align th thicker stroked ones using align tool> distribute across horizontal, then do the groups of thinner lines.
 
I did this in like 2 minutes using the pen tool to make the first line, then kinda winged it on the 12th, selected both and made a 10 step blend.

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