582 Creating custom arrowheads in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now today's episode I think will prove of great interest…to anyone who uses Illustrator.…And it doesn't matter which version.…Arrowheads, which is what we're going to be talking about,…date back to Illustrator 6.0.…So here's the idea, unbeknownst to you perhaps…is a file on your hard drive called Arrowheads.ai…and it contains every one of the 39 arrowheads…that are available to you these days…inside the stroke panel.…Well, guess what?…You can modify this document and any arrowheads you add…will appear automatically inside your stroke panel.…

And this is a global modification,…meaning that you can apply your arrowheads…to any open document.…And so I'm going to show you how to create…three examples right here.…And notice that they automatically conform…to any other stroke attributes,…including line weight, color, or in CS6 and later gradient.…Here, let me show you exactly how they work.…Now the toughest thing about creating custom arrowheads…inside Illustrator is finding the arrowheads file.…