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Use the Rotate at Collisions tool

Use the Rotate at Collisions tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Use the Rotate at Collisions tool

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- [Instructor] With the rotate at collision tool in Astute Graphics' ColliderScribe, you can manipulate Illustrator objects almost like were real physical objects, aligning edges, and even rotating them to fit together. Let's check it out. Here in my document I have a circle and an ellipse that's been changed to have a corner point down here at one end. And if I take the rotate at collision tool and click on one of these paths, and note that with this tool you do have to click on the path not inside of it, I can drag one object over to the other and I snap to it right at the location where I clicked on the first path. And as I drag, the object rotates around, like so. I can click on a different spot and drag it over, and now that spot snaps to my circle. I can also click on an anchor point, like the one down at the bottom. And I'll snap to the anchor point at the top of the circle, and I can hold option or alt to…

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