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Drawing straight lines

Drawing straight lines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing straight lines

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to begin drawing the outline of the main portion of the factory here, using the line segment tool. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to these random lines here, obviously I don't want them, they're just here for the sake of demonstration, so to get rid of them, I'll go up to the Select menu, and choose the All command, or you can just press that keyboard shortcut of CTRL + A here on the PC or Command + A on a Mac, and then I'll just go ahead and press the backspace key or the delete key in order to get rid of those lines. But notice it still leaves us with the lines layer here inside the layers panel. Alright, now to create the first portion of the inclined roof of the factory, I'll go ahead and click some place in the right portion of the document, along this horizontal guideline. That'll bring up the Line Segment Tool Options dialog box, and which one I'm going to change the Length value to 100 point and then also notice in addition…

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