- In this movie, we'll create this right-hand smoke stack,
using a command known as Move.
I'll go ahead and switch over to the
document in progress here,
and I want to start things off by
duplicating this right-most vertical line.
To select that entire line,
I'll go ahead and switch to the Black Arrow Tool,
which also has an arrow-like keyboard shortcut.
Whereas the White Arrow Tool has
a very straightforward keyboard shortcut,
of A for Arrow, the Black Arrow Tool
has a keyboard shortcut of V for Upside-down Arrow.
I really do suggest you memorize those,
because you're going to be switching back-and-forth
between those tools all the time.
I'll go ahead and select that tool to make it active,
and then I'll click on this vertical line to select
the entire thing, and now what I want to do,
is create a duplicate of this line 10 points to the right.
To make that happen, go up to the Object Menu,
choose Transform, and choose the Move Command.
It also has a keyboard shortcut,
but for once I am not going to recommend
that you memorize it,
and I'll tell you why in just a moment.
For now, just go ahead and choose the Move Command,
and notice that brings up the Move Dialogue Box,
which contains two position options,
as well as Distance and Angle Values.
You can choose which pair of values to use,
but generally, you're going to stick with
the horizontal and vertical values,
for reasons that I'll demonstrate in just a moment.
The first thing you want to do is,
turn on the Preview Check Box,
so you can preview the effect on-screen.
Notice if I set both the horizontal and vertical values
to 0, I'm not going to create any movement at all.
If I change the horizontal value to something negative,
like -100, I'll move the path to the left;
if I change it to a positive value,
I'll move it to the right.
If I make the vertical values something positive,
such as, let's say, 100 points once again,
then I'm going to move the selected line down.
If I make it negative, I'm going to move the line up.
Notice why we don't have to worry about
the distance and angle values, they update
automatically on the fly.
So, for example, if I was to change the angle value
to 0 degrees, that would modify
the horizontal and vertical values.
The top pair, effects the bottom pair and vice-versa.
What I'm really looking to do,
is just to move this path over 10 points,
so I'm going to change the horizontal value to 10 points,
and I'm going to leave the vertical value
set to 0 points, and then, instead of clicking Ok,
which would go ahead and move the line,
I'm going to click the Copy button, instead,
which will create a copy of that path outline like so.
Now, I want to move this top point up 200 points,
and because I want to select the top point
independently of the bottom point,
I need to switch back to the Wide Arrow Tool,
which, again, you get by pressing the A key,
and then I'll click on that top point
to select it independently of the bottom one,
which now appears hollow, and now,
I'll return to the Object Menu,
choose Transform and choose Move, once again,
in order to return to the Move Dialogue Box,
which you'll notice is replaying our last move.
I am once again moving this point 10 points
to the right; that's not what I want,
so I'll change the horizontal value to 0,
and because I want to move this point
200 points upward,
I will change the vertical value to -200 points.
I know that can be confusing, that negative is up,
and positive is down,
but that's the way things work inside Illustrator.
Notice that will go ahead and pop that Anchor Point
upward 200 points, at which point,
I do not want to click Copy this time,
I just want to click Ok in order to move that anchor point.
Now, I want to create a duplicate
of that line, 100 points over to the right,
and to make that happen,
I need to select the entire thing, which I will do,
by switching back to the Black Arrow Tool,
which you can get by pressing the V key,
and so, A V, A V, is something that you're doing a lot,
inside of Illustrator.
Then, click on this vertical line
to select the entire thing.
As opposed to returning to the Object Menu,
choosing Transform and choosing Move,
that is the command we want,
but there is a much better way to get to it.
That's by either double-clicking on this Tool icon,
which you can do;
that will bring up the Move dialogue box,
as you can see right here.
I'm going to cancel out,
because there's even an easier way,
when an arrow tool is selected,
whether it's the Black Arrow, or the White Arrow,
you can get to the Move tool,
by just pressing the Enter key, here on the PC,
or the Return key on the Mac.
That's all it takes.
This time I'm going to change the horizontal value
to 100, I'm going to change the vertical value to 0,
because I just want it to move 100 points to the right,
and nothing more and then I'll go ahead
and click the Copy button, in order to create a copy
of that line, at the new location.
Finally, I want to draw a little Cap at the top
of the smokestack,
and I'll do that just by selecting the Line Segment Tool
and then dragging from the top
of one of these lines to the top of the other one,
in which case you should see a Distance Value of
100 points and an Angle of 0 degrees,
because after all, we're dragging exactly to the right.
Then go ahead and release,
to create that horizontal line.
That's how you duplicate and extend straight lines
using the Move command, here inside of Illustrator.