- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll introduce you
to transform sequences, which are duplicates
that you can create within the context
of a transform effect.
And, I'll also introduce you to another
dynamic effect called convert to shape.
And along the way, we'll
create this atomic symbol.
And, believe it or not, if I press
Control Y, or Command Y on the Mac,
it's nothing more than an ellipse.
Everything else that we're seeing here
is a function of the appearance panel.
So the first thing I'll do is go up to
the file menu and choose new from template.
Or, I can take advantage of that keyboard
shortcut of control shift N or
command shift N on the Mac.
Then, I'll locate my center guides document
and double click on it.
Alright, now I'll go ahead and select my ellipse
tool from the shape tool fly out menu.
And, as you may recall,
way back in chapter 11 of the Fundamentals Course.
I changed the keyboard shortcut for this
tool to shift M.
Alright, now, alt click or option click
at the intersection of those two guidelines.
And I'll change the width value to 180 points.
And the height value to 640, afterward which point
I'll click okay in order to create that ellipse.
And I'll go ahead and take the line weight
value up to 10 points.
Like so.
And I'm gonna change the fill
from white to black.
So, we have an entirely black ellipse at this point.
Alright, now press the v key to switch back
to the black arrow tool.
And I'll turn off the guides layer here
inside the layers panel.
And, then I'll switch over to the appearance
panel, which of course you can get by
choosing appearance from the window menu.
Alright, the first thing I wanna do
is make my fill smaller.
So, I'm gonna scale that fill
independently of the stroke.
But, I'm not gonna do so using a
transform effect, just because that would
be too much work.
Instead, I'll go ahead and click on the
fill to select it, and then I'll
drop down to the FX icon, choose
convert to shape and choose ellispe.
And I know that seems so weird.
Why in the world am I going to convert
one ellipse to another?
Well, really what I'm gonna do is convert
an ellipse to an absolute circle
by choosing this command.
And then, as opposed to scaling the shape
relative to its current size,
I'll select absolute and then I will change
the width and heigth values each to
64 points, like so.
And that's gonna give me a
very precise circle in the center of the shape.
After which point I'll click okay,
in order to accept that change.
Alright, now click on a stroke
in order to make it active.
And I'll drop down to the FX icon once again.
Choose distort and transform, and choose
transform in order to bring up
the transform dialogue box.
And, I know I want three copies of this shape.
And, as you may know, 360° describes
an entire circle.
And so, I'll go ahead and enter 360 followed by
slash three, in order to
divide that value by three.
And that gives me 120°.
And as you can see, if I turn on the
preview checkbox, I do indeed rotate
the shape 120° about its center.
And that's a function of this little reference
point matrix right there.
If I were to select a different point,
then I would rotate the shape by one of the corners
or the sides and that ends up
taking it outside of my field of
view right now, so I'll go ahead
and click on the center point once again
to bring it back on screen.
Now, if I were to click okay, and then I would just
go ahead and virtually rotate this shape.
Which really doesn't serve me any purpose.
Because, I actually need three copies in all.
So, what I'm gonna do is twirl open that stroke,
so I can see the word transform.
I'll click on it, in order
to bring that transform effect once again,
complete with an angle value of 120°.
I'll turn on the preview checkbox,
and then I'll click in this copies field.
And, I'll press the up arrow key,
and you can see, just by raising the
copies to one, I bring back the original ellipse.
Now, if I press the up arrow key again,
I get a second copy, meaning I have two copies
along with one original, so three versions of the
ellipse in all.
At which point, I'll click okay to accept that change.
Alright, so that's pretty amazing, but it leaves
you shy of three electrons, which is why I'll
show you how you go about making those
in the very next movie.