635 Turning an orthogonal cube into a pattern

- Hey gang, this is Deek McClellan.…Welcome to Deek's Techniques.…This week, we're going to take that intriguing…cube logo that we created last week…in Adobe Illustrator and we're going to turn it…into a seamlessly repeating tile pattern.…And this is going to work out brilliantly…because even though we look at this thing…and think orthogonal cube,…it's actually a six sided hexagon…with three pairs of parallel sides.…So these guys are parallel, so are these…and so are the vertical sides.…Now some sides are bigger than others but that…doesn't matter because it's a hexagon,…we can turn it into a hex pattern.…

Now, you're going to need Illustrator CS6 or later…to pull this off, in which case, here,…let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright so here's that stylized…orthogonal cube from last week.…And here it is from the context of the final pattern.…Alright, so the first step is to select all the objects…that you want to turn into the pattern.…And that's going to be everything on these top two layers.…Now you can select the contents of a layer…