- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to add this
circular end to the spiral.
And we're going to do so using a tool that we'll see in
more detail in the next chapter, known as the ellipse tool.
I'll go ahead and switch over to my document here.
And I'm going to zoom in by control or command spacebar
clicking and then I'll go ahead and click and hold on the
rectangle tool directly below what is now the spiral tool,
and I'll select the ellipse tool from the fly-out menu.
Now, you can go ahead and drag with this tool if you like
in order to create some kind of elliptical shape on
the fly.
But I'm looking for a shape of a specific size so I'll go
ahead and press control z or command z on the Mac to
undo that ellipse and I'll click with the tool
to bring up the ellipse-style add box and I'm going to
change both the width and the height values to 70 points
like so, and then I'll click OK in order
to create that shape.
All right, now notice up here on the control panel
that I have a white fill indicated by the first swash.
I'm going to go ahead and click on that swash and change it
to black and then I'll click on the second swash and
I'll change it to none so that we've got a black fill and
no stroke and nothing more.
All right, now what you want to do is switch back to the
black arrow tool which of course you can get by pressing
the v key.
And now I need to go ahead and drag the shape by its
center point.
You can see that highlighted right there so that it snaps
into alignment with the end
of the spiral path outline which,
in case you have problems with it,
let me show you a different way to work.
I'm going to go ahead and drag that guide off to the side
and I'll show you another way to see things inside of
Illustrator which is to go up to the View menu and choose
the Outline command.
And that will show you the path outlines inside of your
artwork and nothing more,
so in other words you're not seeing any fills,
you're not seeing any strokes,
you're not seeing any special screen treatments at all
and all your guides are appearing black,
just like all the other objects which can be confusing.
Which is why I recommend you go over to the Layers panel
and notice that we now have these hollow, sort of little
orphan annie eyes over here.
Go ahead and turn off the one in front of the guides layer
so that you're seeing just the contents of the lines layer
and nothing more.
And the drag the circle by its center so that it snaps into
alignment which means that you're snapping in alignment
with the end of the spiral,
which is exactly what we want.
Now go up to the View menu and choose whatever this command
is called,
whether it's GPU Preview or CPU Preview,
it doesn't really matter,
you just want to make sure you're choosing that first
preview command right there at the top,
the one that has a keyboard shortcut, incidentally of
control y here on the PC,
or command y on the Mac.
Then, you'll end up with this effect here.
Now obviously things are deligned properly.
And so, all we need to do is nudge the shape into the
proper position and we're going to do so using the arrow keys
on your keyboard.
But before we press a single arrow key,
I want you to check the preference setting.
And you do so here on the PC by going to the Edit menu,
on a Mac you want to go the Illustrator CC menu,
then drop down to the preferences command which isn't
nearly this low on the Mac.
And finally choose General.
And what I'm going to tell you
is this is a very useful command.
You'll consult it every so often and so you should remember
it's keyboard shortcut which is control k or
command k on the Mac,
and I want you to think of that k as standing for
keyboard increment because that's the setting you'll change
most often here inside Illustrator.
So control k or command k for keyboard increment.
And that's going to bring up the Preferences dialogue box
complete with the very first option, keyboard increment.
Now, by default it's set to 1 point and I'm just asking you
to confirm that that's the case for you as well.
So that means any time you press an arrow key,
you're going to nudge the selection
1 point in that direction.
If you press Shift along with an arrow key,
you're going to nudge it 10 times that amount or in our
case, 10 points in a specific direction.
All right, having confirmed that just go ahead and click OK
and now press Shift right arrow twice in a row to nudge that
circle 20 points to the right which ends up making that
70 point circle aligned exactly with that 30 point stroke,
which is of course what we want.
At which point just go ahead and press control 0 or
command 0 on the Mac in order to zoom out and then click off
the shape in order to deselect it.
And that's how you add a circular end to a spiral using the
ellipse tool here inside Illustrator.