926 Precisely sizing stars in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … Now over the past couple of weeks, … I've been showing you how to draw … regular polygons of a specific size inside Illustrator. … Well today, it gets that much better … as I show you how to draw a star … of a specific size, once again, inside Illustrator. … Now, if you think about it, … a star is a regular polygon … set inside another regular polygon. … So the sides go in and then back out, … which means that Illustrator requires … not one, but two radius values. … And so let's say you want to draw … an upright five-pointed classically American star, … or if you prefer, Liberian, Somalian, … Senegalese, Vietnamese, Chilean, European, … Puerto Rican, Texan, Californian, … many, many independent entities, employ five-pointed stars. … And so if you want to draw … a kind of bloaty, out of shape star, child's play, … but if you want to draw a precise, … all sides aligned, upright five-pointed star, … that's, let's say, exactly 400 points wide …