Illustrator Stroke tool making gear tutorial sharing

To give you illustrator software users to detailed analysis of the use of stroke tools to make gears tutorial.

Tutorial Sharing:

The following figure this gear, with only a star tool and strokes on the easy to get good results. Follow Relen to try it out, and after a simple change, you can also make a richer combination of effects.

Production process:

Open Illustrator10, select the Star tool in the toolbar, and click on the page. The selection panel for the Star tool appears after clicking. Enter in the panel: the RADIUS 1:22mm (this value can be exchanged for itself), the radius 2:0mm (this value is unchanged), the number of stars: 20 (This value can also be reversed).

When determined, a radial figure appears as shown in the diagram.

For this star stroke, fill in the 15pt in the Stroke panel.

So thick strokes, forming a gear effect.

Select this gear again and select the object > Path > Stroke profile in the menu

At this time, the original radial star of the stationary point structure into the above image as the jagged edge of the anchor structure. (That is, the original rays are converted to the outer frame path) when the star is gone, completely jagged.

[ctrl+y] Switch to sketch mode, you will find that the original radial lines still exist.

Pull it out, the conversion tool is to generate a new gear, while the star path is not removed and manually removed it.

OK, the gear is finished.

Through the Ellipse tool. Make a small positive circle, move it, and coincide with the center of the outer edge of the gear.

Select the two objects and click the button on the path picker as shown above. This is to subtract the small inner circle from the shape on the outer edge of the gear so that they form an object.

As shown in the figure, when the operation is completed, the center point of the small circle is not, click the expansion button to complete the gear graphics.

Select the zoom tool and slowly stretch the gears. Until you are satisfied with the effect.

The floor plan of the gear.

If you have installed KPT vectoretiects, you can choose 3D Special effects, 3D deformation of this gear processing. If not, you can get the 3D effect gear by adding features to the illustrator CS software.

Relen The odd gears that are randomly deformed.

No matter how, even if you do not have CS version of illustrator and kpt special effects, you can get it. Follow the Relen for the following actions.

Duplicate a single sided gear.

Overlap them.

Copy one of the blue-sided gears and put them next to each other. There will be other uses afterwards.

Select a hybrid tool to mix the two gears in color.

The mixing effect came out.

Overlap The newly copied blue single-sided gears on the top.

So you can get a three-dimensional gear effect diagram.

If not satisfied with its color can be modified color.

Okay, the above information is small make up to you illustrator this software users of the detailed stroke tool to make gears of the tutorial analysis of the full content of the share, you see the users here, small series believe that we are now very clear how to draw the bar, In general, the use of Star tools, stroke tools to create gears, gear thickness is the use of hybrid tools, as long as the familiar with these points, we can quickly grasp, now you go to try it yourself.