- [Instructor] All right, so just by way of reminder,
we have a problem with this final arrowhead.
What it needs is some form of connectivity right here
in the form of these little ropes, let's say,
which are connecting this traditional looking,
albeit very stylized arrowhead, to its shaft.
And that means we need to replace
one arrowhead definition with another.
Now you might figure it's a pretty easy matter.
We just create a new arrowhead based on the existing one,
but if you do that in the wrong way
then you'll create an arrowhead that will crash Illustrator
every single time.
And so let me show you how to do things the right way
to Illustrator doesn't continually crash which,
I don't know about you, but I find to be highly irritating.
So I'm gonna go ahead and switch over
to this file right here and we're gonna make
some modifications.
So I'm gonna zoom in on this guy
and in order to make things work
we need smart guides to be turned on.
So I'll go up to the view menu,
notice mine are turned off,
so I'll go ahead and choose the command
or you have that shortcut of control u here on a PC,
command u on a Mac.
Now I'll go ahead and select my line segment tool
which you can get from the line tool fly out menu.
And I'll go ahead and position my cursor right there
at the left hand intersection of those two triangles
and I will click in order to bring up
the line options dialog box.
We're working very small so I'll set the link value
to just two points and the angle value to 90 degrees
and notice if I click okay
I create this little line right there.
And for the best results you wanna be working on layer one,
here inside the layer's panel,
and that's because layer five contains
all the descriptive text at the top of the artboard.
So if you created this guy in layer five
and you're seeing a green path outline
then just go ahead and drag the little square
down to layer one.
All right, now I'm gonna zoom in even farther here
and I want this guy to be centered
and so I'll switch back to my black arrow tool
which I can get by pressing the v key
and then I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac,
to bring up the move dialog box
and I'll change the vertical value to one.
The horizontal value needs to stay at zero.
And so notice if I turn on the preview check box
that I moved that line down
so that it's centered on the shaft of this arrowhead.
At which point I'll click okay.
All right, now I don't want the color of this stroke
to be this sort of weak black and so I'll click on
the second swatch and I'll change it to
that light shade of gray in which the RGB values
are all 191.
Now I wanna round off the caps
and so I'll click on the word stroke and then I'll select
the second cap option, round cap,
in order to produce this effect here.
Now as you may recall,
arrowheads are not compatible with strokes
and so we need to convert this stroke to
a filled path outline by going up to the object menu,
choosing path and then choosing outline stroke
or if you loaded D keys you have that shortcut
of control backslash, that's command backslash on the Mac.
And notice that we now have a filled path outline.
All right, now I need to create a copy of this guy
over here on the left hand side
and the easiest way to do that is to press the enter key
or the return key on the Mac to bring up
the move dialog box.
I wanna move this guy to the left
and so I'll change the horizontal value
to negative 1.5 it turns out, like so.
That moves it down a little bit as well,
so I'll change the vertical value to zero points.
And then I'll click on the copy button
in order to create a copy of that path outline.
All right, now we wanna take both of these guys,
so I'll click on one, shift click on the other,
and we want to stroke them both.
And the best way to make that happen at this point
is not to assign a stroke because then we'll
just have to convert it to a fill later.
And so if you want to perform
both of those modifications in one step,
then you go up to the object menu,
choose path, and choose offset path,
which is very similar to outline stroke
which is why if you loaded D keys I've given you
a similar keyboard shortcut,
in which you just add the shift key.
So in other words, control shift backslash here on a PC.
That's command shift backslash on a Mac.
And then you want to turn on the preview checkbox.
Obviously that's way too much stroke.
We're looking for a one-point stroke.
But if I change the offset value to one,
then we're moving the stroke out one point
as well as in one point.
That's not what we want.
We want out half of that,
and so I'll click after this offset value
and enter slash two,
which will change the value to 0.5 points.
And so that means it's moving half a point out
as well as theoretically half a point in,
which is the same as a one-point stroke.
And so now I'll just go ahead and click OK
in order to apply that change.
And I'll change the color to black like so.
All right, now I want to fuse both of these guys
into a single path outline
and you can do that by going up to the window menu
and choose the pathfinder command
to bring up the pathfinder panel,
and then I'll click on this very first icon
in the first row, unite.
Which fuses those two guys together.
Unfortunately it moves the path outline
a little too far forward,
but that's an easy problem to rectify
by right clicking inside the document window,
choosing a range, and choosing not send to back,
that would move things back too far,
but just send backward.
Or you can take advantage of that keyboard shortcut,
control left bracket here on a PC
or command left bracket on a Mac,
which produces exactly the effect we're looking for.
All right, now obviously we just need to move this guy
into the symbols panel.
But notice if I go ahead and partially marquee
all these paths right here,
I'm getting a big rectangle.
And I'm not seeing any path outlines
surrounding the arrowhead itself.
And that's because if I click off the path
and then click on one of these paths again,
we have an instance.
And so notice I'm seeing the words symbol static
over here on the left side of the control panel.
Now you could of course, go up to the window menu
and choose the symbols command
to bring up your symbols panel,
which contains tinted three right there,
and then you could partially marquee these guys and drag 'em
and drop 'em in there in order to create a new symbol.
And I could call it something like tinted 3a, let's say.
And select static symbol and go through all the steps here.
The problem is then I would have a nested symbol,
so I'd end up with a symbol inside of a symbol.
In other word, tinted three would not be part of tinted 3a.
That's where Illustrator will crash.
And so what you have to bear in mind is
arrowheads are a very old feature.
Again, they've been around for about 20 years now.
And so they're essentially not compatible with a darn thing.
And you can bet if arrowheads are
not compatible with strokes they're
not compatible with nested symbols either.
So what you want to do is cancel out here,
and you want to click off the paths,
click on this guy to select it independently,
and then go up to the control panel
and click break link.
And that's gonna give me a bunch of
differently colored selection edges.
That's because we now have a sublayer.
And so if you target this guy tinted three right here,
you'll see that it's a layer over here
on the far left side of the control panel,
so I'll just go ahead and name it bad sublayer,
so that I can keep track of what I'm doing.
I'll twirl it open.
I'll grab all these guys.
So click on the top paths, shift click on the bottom one,
and then drag them and drop them out of that sublayer.
You can move them all the way to
the top of the stack if you want.
It doesn't matter,
but you do need to make sure you click on
this bad sublayer once you're done.
Just click on it, you don't have to target it,
and then click on the little trash icon
in the bottom right corner of the layers panel
to get rid of it, and that'll just ensure
that you don't have any clutter.
All right, now it did matter that I moved this guy
to the top of the stack.
That's because it's now covering the new stuff I drew.
So I'll go ahead and select those items,
and notice they're selected right here in a layers panel,
so I could click on this path, shift click on this one,
and then drag them and drop them
at the top of the stack like so.
In which case they are in the proper position.
All right, now let's just go ahead
and marquee all this junk.
And I'll drag it and drop it into the symbols panel
or if you want you can drag it onto the old tinted three
and press the alt key.
Notice that, if I don't have the alt key down
I'll see a vertical blue line either before
or after the symbol.
But if I press and hold the alt key
or the option key on a Mac,
I see a dark square around the symbol.
In which case I'll just go ahead and release,
and that replaces tinted three.
So notice this item right here is now an instance.
And I can see that because I'm seeing
the words symbol static at the beginning,
the far left side of the control panel.
And if I were to click on this replace icon
up here in the control panel and select tinted two instead,
I would see tinted two and then if I switched
to tinted three I'll see the new tinted three,
which is awesome.
All right, so I'm gonna zoom out so I can
see all of these guys at the same time,
and then I'll hide the symbols panel,
and now I'll go up to the file menu,
and choose the save command,
or you can press control s or command s on a Mac
in order to save your changes,
and then return to the file menu
and choose the exit command here on the PC.
That's the quit command on a Mac,
which has a keyboard shortcut after the Macintosh command
of control q here on a PC or command q on a Mac.
All right, now I just want you to relaunch Illustrator.
So in other words, we don't have to worry about
launching this thing as an administrator,
so I'm just gonna switch to bridge,
which I have opened in the background.
So notice it's already trained on the contents
of the 36 symbols folder.
So I'll just go ahead and double click on this guy,
not quite right.ai in order
to once again launch Illustrator.
Depending on which version of the program you have,
you may see a different splash screen.
But in a moment or two you will
see this file open on screen.
I'll switch back to the single column toolbox
and I'll click on the layers tab
in order to expand the layers panel,
and then I'll just go ahead and marquee this stroke,
the bottom stroke, with the black arrow tool,
and I'll click on the word stroke,
and I'll click on the word arrowhead.
Notice that it doesn't update automatically.
So what you need to do I click on this first instance
of the arrowhead which is no longer linked to
any of the arrowheads that are at work on this system.
And so I'll just go ahead and click on tinted three
in order to update that guy like so,
and we now have these two bits of rope
that are holding the traditional arrowhead to its shaft
in order to create something that looks like
a highly stylized spear.
And that's how you go about editing an existing arrowhead
without running the risk of crashing Illustrator
every time you try to apply it,
by taking a moment to break the link
between the instance and symbol
so you're working with static path outlines
here inside Illustrator.