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Grid tools are a powerful performance tool for illustrator. But skilled control is not easy, this section focuses on how to control the grid by resetting the deformed border:
Factors affecting the grid line
The shaping of the grid line is affected by the following two factors:
1. The direction of the deformed border
2. The node of the object
When we use grids, we always avoid the influence of these two factors, and try to use this mesh tool to simplify the object as the basic form and split the object as a simple unit. You can actually try to find a way to control these two factors instead of avoiding them.
2. Reset the deformed border
The figure on the left is the object drawn by the Pencil tool; The right is the established grid, which is based on a deformed border, so it is slightly distorted.
Rotate the object before the grid to a horizontal angle.
Choose from Menu: [Object]>[]>[Reset border]
Select from menu: [Object]>[to create gradient grid ...]
In this way, the shape of the grid line is in the shape of the object, and it is more organized.
The following is where you want to restore the object. Double-click the Rotation tool, in the Angle value box, the positive plus minus sign, negative to delete the minus sign.
Compare the results of using and not using a rotated reset border ...
Complex Shape Object Segmentation method
We have all encountered this slightly more complex object, after the grid, grid lines will become unable to clean up. This section describes ways to split a grid by using a reset border:
First, choose the place where the object changes dramatically, and use the same line as the root division. This step seems simple, but the position of the line is very important. Not sure of the case, it is recommended to try to build a grid observation, and then recover.
Then select the line and object to split, solve the group.
Now the whole selection, rotation. Keep the left object horizontal.
Select the left object to reset the border.
Build the grid and complete the left.
Next, restore the rotation angle, and then rotate the right object to the horizontal state.
Ditto, reset border, build grid.
Restore rotation angle, complete.
Such a segmented object does not add much work when it is painted, and two objects can be used as an object in conjunction with a single selection tool range to color the nodes.
Try to make the doughnut shape into a grid, if smooth, can be made with positive circles equal to the grid line.
Of course, the split line does not have to be straight.
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