From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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Draw tangents and perpendiculars - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
Draw tangents and perpendiculars
- In this movie we'll continue our look at Astute Graphic SubScribe, by seeing how you can use it to draw tangent lines, and perpendicular lines. On the first art board in our file we have a few circles here. And I'll select one to sample its appearance. And to connect these circles with tangent lines I'll take the tangent line tool, and then just mouse over one of the circles, then I can start drawing my tangent line anywhere along here, I'll click, and when I get near a tangent point on the other circle I snap to it and can click again, and there's my tangent line. I'll repeat that at the bottom, just click and click. And if I switch to outline mode by pressing commander Ctrl Y, I can see those paths are perfectly aligned with almost no effort on my part. Now lets see how the perpendicular line tool works. I'll start by taking it from the tools, and click somewhere along my third circle, and drag away from it.…
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