819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern

- [Narrator] All right, now I'll show you … how you can nest gradients … inside a pattern in Illustrator. … Short story, it's perfectly legal. … Illustrator doesn't even expand the gradients … the way it does blends. … And along the way, we'll take this … orthogonal object … with holes drilled into its center … and we'll turn it into this shimmering … and seamlessly repeating tile pattern. … All right, so, the first thing I want you to do, … if you're working along with me, … is go ahead and hide the pattern layer … and then turn on the guides layer … so that you can see that the object fits … inside of a hexagon that is flat … at its top and its bottom. … And were you to draw a hexagon using the polygon tool, … while smart guides are turned on, … then you would discover that the dimensions … of this shape are 600 points wide … and 519.62 points high. … Now, that second value's a little difficult to remember, … so I'm going to switch to the Type Tool, … which you can get by pressing the t key, …