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Use the Dynamic Measure tool

Use the Dynamic Measure tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Use the Dynamic Measure tool

- [Instructor] The dynamic measure features in VectorScribe can give you useful information about the size and position of points and paths, distances, angles, and more. Then you can easily save this information for reference, right in the document on a special layer. So let's see how it works. We'll start by selecting the dynamic measure tool, which also opens the dynamic measure panel. You can also open that panel by choosing window, VectorScribe, dynamic measure panel. Now the first way that you can use the dynamic measure tool is just by hovering your cursor over an object to get information about it. So if I hover my cursor over a segment of this star, I can see that it's a closed path with 10 points and the segment that I'm currently hovering over, is about 221 pixels and the perimeter, or the entire distance around the path, is 2210 pixels. If I move my cursor over a point, I get its X and Y coordinates, and…

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