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- In this movie I'll
show you the simplest way

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to build more complex
paths inside Illustrator

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and that's using the "Join" command.

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Along the way I'll show you how
to create this linear spiral

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or coil, if you prefer,
and it's actually easier

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than drawing with a standard spiral tool.

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Assuming that you created
that "Center guides" template,

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a few chapters back, go up
to the "File" menu and choose

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"New From Template" or press
the keyboard shortcut of

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"ctrl + shift + n" or "cmd
+ shift + n" on the Mac.

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Then go ahead and locate
your template and click

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on the "New" button in
order to load it up.

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Now what you want to do is
go to the "Line" tool, here,

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and select the the "Polar Grid Tool"

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from the fly-out menu, and
then I want you to position

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your cursor, right there,
at the intersection of

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those two guides and
then press the "alt" key,

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or the "opt" key on the Mac and click.

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And by virtue of the fact that you have

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the "Alter option" key down, you'll create

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your shapes from the center outward.

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And by virtue of the
fact that you clicked,

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you'll have brought up this dialogue box.

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I just happen to know the
size that I'm looking for,

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which is "616 pt" wide
as well as "616 pt" tall

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and then we're looking for
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you want to make sure
you're skew value is 0%,

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and then go ahead and take
the number of radial dividers

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down to zero as well,
and then click "Okay"

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and you'll end up with a bunch

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of concentric circles
as we're seeing here.

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The "Polar Grid Tool"
always results in a group,

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as we can see over here

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on the far left side of the control panel.

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That group is just
going to get in our way,

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so go up to the "Object" menu and choose

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the "Ungroup" command to
break all the circles apart.

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Now you want to make sure
your guides are locked down,

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so go up to the "View"
menu, choose "Guides"

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and then, if the command
does not have a check mark

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in front of it, as it
doesn't in my case, go ahead

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and choose that command.

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Now you want to switch to
the white arrow tool which,

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of course, you can get
by pushing the "a" key,

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and then just go ahead and
marqee all of the top points.

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Then go up to the "Edit" menu
and choose the "Cut" command,

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or you can press "ctrl +
x" or "cmd + x" on the Mac,

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and now cut away the top
halves of those circles.

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Now, return to the "Edit" menu and choose

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the "Paste in Front" command,
or you can just press

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"crtl + f" or "cmd + f" on the Mac.

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Now what you want to do, is
drag this point, right here,

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over one; just like that,
that's as far as you go

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and it will just snap into
alignment. as we've seen.

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Now you want to press "ctrl
+ a" or "cmd + a" on the Mac

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to select everything, then
go up to the "Object" menu,

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choose "Path" and choose "Join"

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or you can just press "ctrl
+ j" or "cmd + j" on the Mac.

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And that will go ahead and
join all these half circles

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into a single, larger open path.

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Now go ahead and click off
the paths to deselect them.

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Click on this little path,
right there, do you see that?

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If you go ahead and press
"ctrl + plus sign(+)"

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a bunch of times in order
to zoom in, you'll see that

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we have this straight edge in
the center of the document.

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Click on it with your
white arrow and then press

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the "Backspace" key or the
"Delete" key on the Mac

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to get rid of it, then press "ctrl + 0",

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or "cmd + 0" on theMac to zoom back out.

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I'm going to take the line
wave up to, let's say "6 pt",

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just so we can better
see what we're doing,

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and I'm going to click
on the word "Stroke"

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and select the round "Cap" so that we

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have round caps at either
end of our spirals.

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And I say "spirals" because
we actually do have two.

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I'm going to press the "v" key to switch

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to my black arrow tool, and
I'll click off the paths

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to deselect them and then
I'll click on this guy,

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right there, to select it.

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I'll change the color of that stroke to,

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let's say, blue, so that we
can see that we've actually

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ended up with two spirals; I just want one

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so I'm going to click on
that blue spiral again

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and press the "Backspace" key or

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the "Delete" key on the
Mac to get rid of it.

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Now let's dress up our spiral
by adding a few strokes.

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I'll click on it to select
it and then I'll go up to the

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"Line Wave" option and raise
it to "20 pt" for starters,

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then I'll go to the "Window" menu choose

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the "Appearance" command to
bring up the appearance panel

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and I'll drop down to
the "Add New Stroke" icon

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in the lower left corner of the panel,

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and I'll click on it to add a new stroke.

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I'm going to change
the line wave this time

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to "10 pts" and I'm going
to click on its swatch

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and then I'm going to select
this shade of red, right here,

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which is "R=237 G=28
B=36", in order to add this

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nice bright red stroke, and
now with that stroke selected,

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there inside the appearance
panel go up to the "Effect" menu

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choose "Distort &
Transform" and then choose

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the "Transform" command; then I'm going

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to change both of my
"Move" values to "-2 pt",

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like so, and then turn on
the "Preview" check box

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and you can see that that
stroke moves up and to the left,

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at which point I'll go
ahead and click "Okay".

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Now let's make a copy of that
stroke by clicking on it,

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the red stroke that is,
then you want to click on

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the little "Page" icon, at the bottom of

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the "Appearance" panel,
and this time we're going

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to take the line way down
to "6 pt"and I'm going

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to change the color of this
stroke to this shade of orange,

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right there, "R=241 G=90
B=36" and then I'll twirl

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the stroke open by clicking on
this little "twirly" triangle

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and I'll click on the word
"Transform" and I will take both

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these values down to
"-3pt" this time around

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and as soon as I click "Okay"
you can see the stroke move

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just a little bit up and to the left

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then I'll click on this stroke,
click on the "Page" icon at

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the bottom of the panel to
make another copy of it, change

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its color this time to this,
kind of, yellowish orange,

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which is "R=247 G=147 B=30"
and then I'll take the line

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way down to "2 pt" this
time around, I'll click on

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the word "Transform" and I
will take both of these values

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down to "-4 pt" and click
"Okay", at which point we now

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have all the strokes we need.

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Now I'm going to zoom out a little bit

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by pressing "ctrl + minus sign (-)"

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or "cmd + minus sign (-)" on the Mac

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and I'm going to get the rectangle tool

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from the "Shape Tool" fly-out menu

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and I'll draw from one corner of'

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that bleed-guide to the other, like so,

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and then I'm going to get rid
of the stroke for this shape.

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Now I'll change the fill to
this second to darkest shade

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of gray, which is all
values at 26, now I'll press

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the "Escape" key to dismiss that panel

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and I'll "Right click"
inside of that shape,

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choose a range and then
choose "Send to Back"

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in order to send it in
back of that spiral.

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Then I'm going to switch
back here to "Layers" panel,

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I'm going to turn off that "Guides" layer,

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I'm going to press the "v"
key in order to switch back

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to my black arrow tool,
I'll click off the shape

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to deselect it and then I'll zoom back in.

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That's how you create a linear spiral,

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that in our case, looks like a hot burner,

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using a combination of
the "Polar Grid Tool"

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along with the "Join" command.