From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Defining a two-stroke dot pattern - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Defining a two-stroke dot pattern
I've saved my progress as Base dashes.ai found inside the 07_fill_stroke folder, and we are going to take this circle that appears behind the brown circles. So if you're having problems getting to it by the way, go to the Layers panel, scroll your way down and you should see a path just above Eggs right there. Why don't we call this one, I'll go ahead and rename it dashes so that we can keep track of it, click OK and then you can meatball that guy in order to modify it. Anyway, we are going to take this dashed outlined here and we are going to turn it into a series of white circles with black outlines, and here's how we'll do it. Go to Appearance once again, go ahead and click on Stroke. It's already 22 points thick, that's exactly what we want and I'm going to switch my Cap to Round Cap so that I am adding rounded ends to each one of my dashes. Now to turn those rounded ends into exact circles, because bear in mind, here's what you've got. You've got a half circle on one side of the…
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The Three S's of Illustrator1m 6s
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Making a new window into a document4m 56s
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Assigning colors to fill and stroke6m 29s
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The Document Color mode6m 20s
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The Hide and Show commands3m 9s
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Introducing the Stroke panel4m 46s
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Cap, Join, and Miter Limit6m 42s
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Saving and reverting multiple views4m 5s
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Filling open paths, None, and Swap6m 30s
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Lifting a color and creating a swatch5m 30s
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Managing color swatches4m 55s
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Assigning a swatch with the Eyedropper6m 12s
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Filling paths inside groups6m 24s
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Adjusting the stacking order7m 44s
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Paste in Front and Paste in Back3m 54s
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Working in the Group Isolation mode7m 29s
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Trapping colors with rich blacks7m 32s
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Combining multiple fills5m 29s
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Creating a tile pattern9m 2s
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Aligning dashes to endpoints and corners6m 22s
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Defining a two-stroke dot pattern3m 26s
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The new CS5 arrowheads5m 44s
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Creating a callout line7m 1s
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Varying line weight with the Width tool7m 36s
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Width tool tips and tricks8m 47s
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Saving a variable-width profile6m 23s
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