1 00:00:00.04 --> 00:00:03.08 - In this movie I'll demonstrate two additional options 2 00:00:03.08 --> 00:00:06.04 that might otherwise leave you scratching your head, 3 00:00:06.04 --> 00:00:08.04 and they're both available inside of that 4 00:00:08.04 --> 00:00:10.02 shape builder dialog box. 5 00:00:10.02 --> 00:00:11.08 So I'll go ahead and select the tool 6 00:00:11.08 --> 00:00:13.04 and then I'll press the enter key, 7 00:00:13.04 --> 00:00:14.05 or the return key on the Mac, 8 00:00:14.05 --> 00:00:16.05 and they are these. 9 00:00:16.05 --> 00:00:18.02 First, we have Gap Detection 10 00:00:18.02 --> 00:00:20.00 up here at the top of the dialog box, 11 00:00:20.00 --> 00:00:22.09 and then we have what is possibly the most poorly named 12 00:00:22.09 --> 00:00:26.04 function inside the entire software, In Merge Mode, 13 00:00:26.04 --> 00:00:29.04 whatever that is, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path. 14 00:00:29.04 --> 00:00:31.08 But it turns out, they're both useful functions, 15 00:00:31.08 --> 00:00:33.01 so let me show you how they work. 16 00:00:33.01 --> 00:00:34.07 I'll go ahead and cancel out, 17 00:00:34.07 --> 00:00:37.03 and then I'll press ctrl + N or cmd + N on the Mac 18 00:00:37.03 --> 00:00:38.08 to create a new document. 19 00:00:38.08 --> 00:00:41.00 It's going to have a width of 1008 pts 20 00:00:41.00 --> 00:00:44.03 and a height of 672 pts, just like usual. 21 00:00:44.03 --> 00:00:45.08 Now I'll go ahead and click OK 22 00:00:45.08 --> 00:00:47.09 in order to create that new file. 23 00:00:47.09 --> 00:00:50.06 And I'll go ahead and grab my Ellipse tool, 24 00:00:50.06 --> 00:00:53.06 and I'll just draw a circle someplace in this document 25 00:00:53.06 --> 00:00:56.04 like so, and I'll go ahead and fill it, let's say, 26 00:00:56.04 --> 00:00:57.06 with green. 27 00:00:57.06 --> 00:00:58.08 And now I'll press the V key 28 00:00:58.08 --> 00:01:00.05 to switch back to my Black Arrow tool. 29 00:01:00.05 --> 00:01:04.03 And I'm going to move this shape to right about there 30 00:01:04.03 --> 00:01:07.00 while I press the alt key or the option key on the Mac 31 00:01:07.00 --> 00:01:08.06 to create a duplicate of it. 32 00:01:08.06 --> 00:01:11.02 And then I'll press ctrl + C, ctrl + F, 33 00:01:11.02 --> 00:01:14.09 or cmd + C, cmd + F, to make a copy of this shape, 34 00:01:14.09 --> 00:01:16.08 and I'll click on the word Transform 35 00:01:16.08 --> 00:01:18.05 to bring up the transform panel, 36 00:01:18.05 --> 00:01:21.02 make sure that the right point in the reference point matrix 37 00:01:21.02 --> 00:01:23.07 is selected, then go to the fly out menu 38 00:01:23.07 --> 00:01:25.04 and choose Flip Horizontal 39 00:01:25.04 --> 00:01:27.04 in order to flip that shape like so. 40 00:01:27.04 --> 00:01:29.03 And now I'm just going to marquee both these shapes 41 00:01:29.03 --> 00:01:30.06 and drag them down. 42 00:01:30.06 --> 00:01:32.07 And what I want to do is create a slight gap 43 00:01:32.07 --> 00:01:36.00 between these three shapes like so. 44 00:01:36.00 --> 00:01:38.04 All right, so now let's say I go ahead and marquee 45 00:01:38.04 --> 00:01:40.02 all three shapes to select them, 46 00:01:40.02 --> 00:01:43.04 and I grab my Shape Builder tool and I press the shift key 47 00:01:43.04 --> 00:01:45.09 so that I can marquee all three shapes, 48 00:01:45.09 --> 00:01:48.07 and that basically doesn't do anything. 49 00:01:48.07 --> 00:01:51.04 They're still independent shapes as we can see 50 00:01:51.04 --> 00:01:52.08 by pressing the V key to switch back 51 00:01:52.08 --> 00:01:54.02 to the Black Arrow tool. 52 00:01:54.02 --> 00:01:56.01 And as you can see, I can drag them around 53 00:01:56.01 --> 00:01:57.09 just as much as I ever could. 54 00:01:57.09 --> 00:01:59.04 All right, so I'll press ctrl + Z, 55 00:01:59.04 --> 00:02:01.02 or cmd + Z on the Mac to undo that change, 56 00:02:01.02 --> 00:02:03.06 and then I'll just go ahead and marquee though shapes again, 57 00:02:03.06 --> 00:02:05.04 click on the Shape Builder tool 58 00:02:05.04 --> 00:02:07.02 and this time I'll press the enter key 59 00:02:07.02 --> 00:02:09.04 or the return key on the Mac to bring up 60 00:02:09.04 --> 00:02:11.06 the Shape Builder Tool Options dialog box, 61 00:02:11.06 --> 00:02:13.06 and I'll turn on Gap Detection. 62 00:02:13.06 --> 00:02:17.08 And now you have the option of setting how big the gap is. 63 00:02:17.08 --> 00:02:20.04 And you can just fool around with that to see what works, 64 00:02:20.04 --> 00:02:22.02 but I'm going to set it to medium, 65 00:02:22.02 --> 00:02:25.02 or you can dial in your own custom value if you like. 66 00:02:25.02 --> 00:02:27.06 And then I'll go ahead and click OK, 67 00:02:27.06 --> 00:02:31.00 and now if I once again shift marquee those shapes, 68 00:02:31.00 --> 00:02:34.00 I join them altogether because Illustrator 69 00:02:34.00 --> 00:02:35.04 is filling in the gap. 70 00:02:35.04 --> 00:02:38.00 Now it's not necessarily the most beautiful effect, 71 00:02:38.00 --> 00:02:39.06 as you can see right here, 72 00:02:39.06 --> 00:02:41.09 but it is possible and it may be the kind of thing 73 00:02:41.09 --> 00:02:44.07 that you'll find useful at some point in time. 74 00:02:44.07 --> 00:02:46.00 All right, I'm going to zoom back out 75 00:02:46.00 --> 00:02:48.07 and press the backspace key to get rid of that thing. 76 00:02:48.07 --> 00:02:50.08 Now let's check out what happens when you work with 77 00:02:50.08 --> 00:02:53.06 absolutely open unfilled paths. 78 00:02:53.06 --> 00:02:57.00 So I'm going to go ahead and select, let's say, 79 00:02:57.00 --> 00:02:58.06 the Arc tool right here, 80 00:02:58.06 --> 00:03:00.06 and then I'll draw a big arc like so 81 00:03:00.06 --> 00:03:02.09 while pressing the shift key to constrain it 82 00:03:02.09 --> 00:03:05.07 to exactly a quarter circle like so. 83 00:03:05.07 --> 00:03:09.01 And it happens to have a width and a height of 400 pts, 84 00:03:09.01 --> 00:03:11.07 not really all that important but there it is. 85 00:03:11.07 --> 00:03:14.06 All right, now I'm going to go ahead and cross this arc 86 00:03:14.06 --> 00:03:16.04 with a straight line that I'll draw 87 00:03:16.04 --> 00:03:17.08 with the Line Segment tool. 88 00:03:17.08 --> 00:03:20.03 So I want to get my cursor into the right position here, 89 00:03:20.03 --> 00:03:22.03 and thanks to the fact I have smart guides on, 90 00:03:22.03 --> 00:03:24.06 I can see those intersect lines. 91 00:03:24.06 --> 00:03:26.03 And now I'll drag up into the right 92 00:03:26.03 --> 00:03:29.04 while pressing the shift key like so. 93 00:03:29.04 --> 00:03:31.08 And that'll give me a perfectly diagonal line. 94 00:03:31.08 --> 00:03:33.03 All right, now I'm going to press the V key 95 00:03:33.03 --> 00:03:34.09 to switch back to the Black Arrow tool. 96 00:03:34.09 --> 00:03:36.07 I'll marquee both of these paths 97 00:03:36.07 --> 00:03:39.05 and let's set the line weight to something like 10 pts 98 00:03:39.05 --> 00:03:40.08 so we can see what we're doing. 99 00:03:40.08 --> 00:03:43.02 Now if you go over here to the Shape Builder tool 100 00:03:43.02 --> 00:03:45.08 and you try to do something to these lines 101 00:03:45.08 --> 00:03:49.00 like shift marquee them, nothing really happens 102 00:03:49.00 --> 00:03:50.02 as you can see. 103 00:03:50.02 --> 00:03:52.04 And that's because once again, they are open 104 00:03:52.04 --> 00:03:54.00 and they are unfilled. 105 00:03:54.00 --> 00:03:55.08 If you would like something to happen, 106 00:03:55.08 --> 00:03:57.07 if you would like to split the arc at that straight line, 107 00:03:57.07 --> 00:04:00.07 for example, then go ahead and press the enter key 108 00:04:00.07 --> 00:04:02.01 or the return key on the Mac, 109 00:04:02.01 --> 00:04:04.07 to bring up the Shape Builder Options dialog box. 110 00:04:04.07 --> 00:04:06.09 And you might as well turn off Gap Detection 111 00:04:06.09 --> 00:04:09.05 while we're here, and then turn on this checkbox, 112 00:04:09.05 --> 00:04:12.05 In Merge Mode, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path, 113 00:04:12.05 --> 00:04:15.09 and click OK in order to dismiss the dialog box. 114 00:04:15.09 --> 00:04:18.01 And now notice, if you hover over that stroke, 115 00:04:18.01 --> 00:04:21.04 it turns red, at which point you can click on it. 116 00:04:21.04 --> 00:04:23.05 And with any luck, that'll work. 117 00:04:23.05 --> 00:04:25.09 It doesn't always work but in my case it did, 118 00:04:25.09 --> 00:04:28.04 because I can see a little anchor point at this location, 119 00:04:28.04 --> 00:04:30.09 and now I'm going to click on a straight line as well 120 00:04:30.09 --> 00:04:32.07 to break it hopefully. 121 00:04:32.07 --> 00:04:34.06 And now I'll press the V key to switch back 122 00:04:34.06 --> 00:04:35.09 to the Black Arrow tool. 123 00:04:35.09 --> 00:04:37.08 I'll click off the paths to deselect them. 124 00:04:37.08 --> 00:04:39.09 This guy is now split like so, 125 00:04:39.09 --> 00:04:41.09 and this guy did not get split. 126 00:04:41.09 --> 00:04:42.09 Notice that? 127 00:04:42.09 --> 00:04:45.07 So it doesn't always work the way it's supposed to, 128 00:04:45.07 --> 00:04:48.05 but I'm going to go ahead and press the A key 129 00:04:48.05 --> 00:04:50.01 to switch to my White Arrow tool, 130 00:04:50.01 --> 00:04:52.00 and I'll click on this end point right there 131 00:04:52.00 --> 00:04:55.00 to select it and I'll drag it until it snaps into alignment 132 00:04:55.00 --> 00:04:56.06 with the end of the arc. 133 00:04:56.06 --> 00:04:59.08 And then I'll drag it again to the other end of the arc 134 00:04:59.08 --> 00:05:02.02 and press the alt key or the option key on the Mac, 135 00:05:02.02 --> 00:05:04.02 to create a copy of that line. 136 00:05:04.02 --> 00:05:07.00 I'll press the V key to switch back to my Black Arrow tool. 137 00:05:07.00 --> 00:05:09.01 I'll click on this arc to select it 138 00:05:09.01 --> 00:05:11.04 and then I'll press the backspace key to get rid of it, 139 00:05:11.04 --> 00:05:14.03 and now I'm going to marquee all three of these lines 140 00:05:14.03 --> 00:05:16.08 like so, and I'll go up to the Object menu, 141 00:05:16.08 --> 00:05:19.00 choose Path and then choose Join, 142 00:05:19.00 --> 00:05:22.04 or you can just press ctrl + J or cmd + J on the Mac 143 00:05:22.04 --> 00:05:26.01 in order to join those open paths into a single closed one. 144 00:05:26.01 --> 00:05:28.03 All right, now I'm going to click on the word Transform 145 00:05:28.03 --> 00:05:30.03 up here in the control panel, 146 00:05:30.03 --> 00:05:32.09 and I'm going to change my rotate value right there, 147 00:05:32.09 --> 00:05:35.06 but first I'm going to rotate around the center. 148 00:05:35.06 --> 00:05:38.03 And now I'll dial in a rotate value 149 00:05:38.03 --> 00:05:42.00 of -90-22.5. 150 00:05:42.00 --> 00:05:44.09 And the reason -22.5 is because that's half 151 00:05:44.09 --> 00:05:47.06 of the 45 degrees that are left to this arc. 152 00:05:47.06 --> 00:05:49.00 And now I'll press the enter key, 153 00:05:49.00 --> 00:05:51.03 or the return key on the Mac, and that's going to rotate 154 00:05:51.03 --> 00:05:52.09 my shape upward like so. 155 00:05:52.09 --> 00:05:56.07 And now if I grab my Ellipse tool and I draw a little circle 156 00:05:56.07 --> 00:05:59.05 in there and I go up to the control panel 157 00:05:59.05 --> 00:06:01.00 and click on the first swatch, 158 00:06:01.00 --> 00:06:03.01 change it to this dark shade of red 159 00:06:03.01 --> 00:06:05.03 and then click on the second swatch for the stroke 160 00:06:05.03 --> 00:06:08.08 and change it to none, and then press the V key 161 00:06:08.08 --> 00:06:10.08 to switch back to my Black Arrow tool 162 00:06:10.08 --> 00:06:13.00 and drag this guy down just a little bit 163 00:06:13.00 --> 00:06:16.07 and click off of it, I end up with a pepperoni pizza! 164 00:06:16.07 --> 00:06:18.05 And so that's how you work with those two 165 00:06:18.05 --> 00:06:21.03 Shape Builder Tool Options, which are Gap Detection 166 00:06:21.03 --> 00:06:26.03 and In Merge Mode, Clicking Stroke Splits the Path.