826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern

- [Instructor] All right, … now we're going to take our happy houses complete with windows … and we're going to convert them … to a perfectly-tessellating tile pattern. … All right, so the first thing I'm going to do … is click on the stroke tab … in order to collapse the gradient panel … so I have a little more room to work. … And then I'll turn on the guides layer down here … at the bottom of the stack … to remind you that a couple of weeks ago, … we drew a hexagon … that measured 450 points wide … by 519.62 points tall. … That first value is pretty easy to remember. … That second value is not, … so what I recommend you do … is go ahead and double click in it … in order to automatically switch to the type tool … and then drag over that number to select it … and then press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac … in order to copy it. … All right, now you can press the escape key … in order to exit the text entry mode … and switch back to the black arrow tool. … At which point, I'll go ahead and click off the text …