437 Repeating a tile pattern Brick by Row

- In this movie, I'll show you how to take…our interlocking boxed towers and turn them…into a true repeating tile pattern,…using Illustrator's built-in Pattern Maker.…All right, I'm going to go ahead and switch over…to our document so far,…and we really just need…this central group and nothing more,…even though we have all these other ones to work with.…Selecting them just makes life more confusing.…In fact, having selected the central one,…I'm going to go up to the Select menu…and choose Inverse, in order to select everything…that wasn't previously selected,…and then I'll go to the Object menu,…choose Hide, and choose Selection,…so that we're seeing just the central group.…

Now, what we're going to have to do,…inside the pattern editing mode,…is figure out what the width and height…of our tile needs to be and, obviously,…it needs to be some kind of multiple…of our existing orthogonal side so far,…so, in order to make any headway,…I need to know how big these tiles are,…and you can determine that by pressing the "a" key…