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- In this movie, I'll introduce
you to the Scissors Tool,

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which allows you to cut one
line exactly along another,

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which will help us to create
this second smoke stack

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that is precisely 10 points
away from this slanting roof.

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I'll go ahead and switch over
to my document in progress,

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and then, I'll press the
v key, in order to switch

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to the black arrow tool.

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And I'm gonna marquee these three lines

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that make up the smoke stack.

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And notice that I'm only
partially marqueeing them.

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When you're using the black arrow tool,

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as long as the line
falls at least somewhat

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inside the marquee, it
becomes entirely selected.

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Now, I'll go ahead and drag
any one of these segments

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over to the left, like so,
and I'll press the shift key

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in order to constrain the angle of my drag

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to exactly horizontal.

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And at some point, I should
see the word intersect

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right there with a horizontal line.

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And what that's showing
me is that I am aligning

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the center of my selection,
that's that tiny little green x,

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with that angled line
that represents the top

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of the factory roof.

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At which point, I'll go ahead
and release to move the path,

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which is not what I wanted to do.

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And that's a mistake, by the way.

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The remedy is to press control + z,

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or command + z on the
Mac, to undo that move,

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and then try again, while not
only pressing the shift key

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during the drag, but I also need to

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press and hold the alt key,
or the option key on the Mac,

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so that I get that
double arrow head cursor,

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which allows me to create
a duplicate of those lines

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on the fly.

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Alright, now what I wanna do is

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cut these vertical lines
along the slanting edge

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of the roof, and I'm gonna do
that using the Scissors Tool.

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And you get the Scissors
Tool by clicking and holding

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on the eraser, which is
located below the pencil,

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right there, and that'll
bring up a fly-out menu

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of three tools that you can see here.

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And then, I'll select the
best and oldest of them all,

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which is the Scissors Tool.

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And notice that it has
a keyboard shortcut,

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in case you're interested,
of just plain old c.

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Alright, now, I'm going to hover my cursor

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until I see the intersection
of these two lines.

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That is to say, the
vertical line right there

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and this slanting line, as well.

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And I'm going to click in order
to cut that vertical line.

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And now, I'll move over to this location

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and click again to cut this vertical line.

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And because I could see all
those lines intersecting,

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I know that I hit the right location.

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And that's another wonderful
function of Smart Guides.

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Alright, now I'm gonna switch
back to the black arrow tool

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by pressing the v key.

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And then, I'll go ahead
and partially marquee

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these bottom portions
of the vertical lines,

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which are now the lines
that we don't want.

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And I'll press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on the
Mac, to get rid of them.

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And then, I'll press the a key to switch

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to the white arrow tool, and
I'll select this anchor point

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right there, the one at the bottom

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of the first vertical line,
and I will shift-click

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on the second one.

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So, any time you shift-click
with an arrow tool,

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you're going to add or
delete from the selection.

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So, in my case, I just
added this anchor point

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to the selection.

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If I wanted to remove
it from the selection,

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I would shift-click on it again,

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and notice that deselects it.

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So, in other words,
shift-clicking is a toggle.

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Alright, I'm gonna shift-click again,

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so that both of these points are selected.

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And now, I wanna move
them upwards 10 points.

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And I was telling you
that you can bring up

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the Move dialog box anytime
one of the arrow tools

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is selected, just by pressing
the enter key here on the PC,

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or the return key on the Mac.

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And that's gonna replay my last move,

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which was apparently
169.5 points to the left,

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as indicated by that negative sign.

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And that was that move that allowed us

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to copy the first smoke stack
to create the second one.

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But while it worked beautifully
the first time around,

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it's not helping us move these
particular anchor points.

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So, what I'm gonna do is change
the horizontal value to 0,

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in order to put those guys back, and then,

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in order to move the points up 10 points,

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I'm gonna change the
vertical value to -10,

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and press the tab key in order
to see that change happen,

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assuming that your Preview
check box is turned on.

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At which point, you can
go ahead and click OK,

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in order to accept that change.

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And that is, among other things,

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how you use the Scissors
Tool to cut one line

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exactly along another,
here inside Illustrator.