- [Voiceover] Alright so if you joined in on the
previous chapter, you may recall that we created this
atomic symbol entirely as a collection of dynamic
attributes here inside the Appearance panel.
But I also told you that I cheated to figure out
the position of the electrons,
and so for example, if I were to turn on this top
black fill right there, you can see the bottom left
electron disappear, and so I'll go ahead and turn
it back on, twirl that fill open, and click on the
word Transform, and note that I didn't create
these electrons by rotating them,
rather I created them by dialing in seemingly
random move values right here, of in this case,
negative 167, and positive 169, and I was able
to figure that out using Transformation guides.
So let me show you what that looks like.
I'll go ahead and switch over to the Layers panel,
and I'll turn my Guides layer back on,
and I'll also press Control + Shift + A,
or Command + Shift + A on the Mac to deselect my
illustration, I'll twirl open this drawing layer right here,
I'll turn off the bottom ellipse,
and I'll turn on the top one,
which so far has no dynamic effects assigned to it.
Now I'll go ahead and click on the Guides layer
to make it active.
Next, I'll select the ellipse tool from my
Shape tool flyout menu, which if you went ahead
and modified your keyboard shortcuts along with
me back in chapter 11 of the Fundamentals course,
now has a shortcut of Shift + M,
and then I'll Alt or Option click at the intersection
of those two guidelines, and I'll dial in width
and height values of 30 points each,
after which I'll click the OK button in
order to create that circle.
Alright, now to make sure it's looking the same
as our other electrons, I'm going to change the
fill right here to none, and then I'll dial in
a line weight of five points, click on the word
stroke, and align the stroke to the outside of the shape.
Alright, now switch back to the Move tool
by pressing the V key, and then I'll press the
Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac,
in order to bring up the Move dialogue box,
and these just happen to be the values I came up with.
A horizontal value of negative 63,
and a vertical value of negative 229,
in real life I of course did this naturally
just by dragging the shape into place,
but the idea was that I wanted the electron
to be centered on this ring, which represents the orbit.
And so having dialed in these values,
I'll go ahead and click OK.
Alright, now we need to figure out exactly
where the electron is gonna be on the other rings,
and we can do that using the rotate tool.
So go ahead and select the tool,
or press the R key, and then Alt or Option click
right there at the intersection of the two guides.
And notice when you press and hold the Alt key
you go from having a cross-shaped cursor
to the addition of three little dots,
which show you that you're going to bring up a dialogue
box, and sure enough here it is.
And to figure out the angle value,
I just took 360 degrees, which represents a circle,
and I divided it by three,
by entering slash three at the end.
And then I press the Tab key in order to update
the value at which point it becomes 120 degrees.
Then you want to click on the copy button,
or press Alt + Enter here on the PC,
or Option + Return on the Mac.
And then just go ahead and press Control + D,
or Command + D on the Mac to duplicate a third electron.
Now three electrons is all we need,
so go ahead and press the V key
to switch back to the black arrow tool.
And then Shift click on the other two circles,
and right-click inside the document window,
and choose Make Guides, which will turn all
these circles into non-printing guides.
And from that point on it was just a matter
of making sure things looked right,
and so what I'm gonna do is take all the dynamic
attributes from this bottom ellipse,
and copy them onto the top one
by pressing the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac,
and dragging this little sort of sculptural meatball,
and dropping it onto the circular target here
in order to fill out the effect.
And now you can see that the electrons are
pretty well-aligned, especially this bottom
left guy, the one over on there on the right
is just a little bit off as you can see,
and if that bothers you, then of course
you can make modifications by targeting the ellipse
here inside the Layers panel, then switch over to
the Appearance panel, figure out which of these
fills represents the electron, and it looks
like it's this guy right here,
as well as this white fill, and so what I'm
gonna do is twirl open the white fill,
click on the word Transform, turn on the Preview
check box so I can see what I'm doing,
and I'll just go ahead and click in the horizontal
Move value and press the up arrow key,
and notice that moves that circle way too far,
so I'll go ahead and press down arrow once again.
And I actually want it to go the other direction,
so I'll enter 229.6, let's say, and see what happens.
And that looks pretty darn good,
maybe not perfect, I'll go ahead and change it
to 229.7 and that looks awesome,
so I'll select that value because I'll never
remember it, and then I'll press Control + C,
or Command + C on the Mac to copy it,
and I'll click OK, and now I'll twirl this guy closed,
twirl the bottom black fill open,
click on its Transform, and change it's horizontal
Move value to 229.7 as well, turn on the Preview
check box to see it nudge on screen, and then click OK.
Alright now just go ahead and press Control + 0,
or Command + 0 on the Mac, so that we can take in
the entire illustration, and that's how you create
static transformation guides in order to help
you build an accurate dynamic effect
here inside Illustrator.