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Dashes, dots, and arrowheads - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2025 Essential Training
Dashes, dots, and arrowheads
- [Instructor] We're going to have a look now at how we can create dashed lines, dotted lines and add arrowheads to our lines. Now, I've made a small modification to this document. You can see here just at the moment in the properties panel that the units are set to points and that will just help us out with what we're doing just at the moment. For a little bit of drawing practice, what we're going to do is tap M on our keyboard and move out to this dot on the left. I guess it would be considered in the middle of the ocean given that there's a map present just here. But I'd like you to hold down Alt on Windows or Option on a Mac and simply click so we can access the rectangle dialogue. And don't worry too much if you didn't hold down Alt or Option, it will just mean it's in a slightly different place and it's not a drama. 400 points wide, 200 points high, hit okay, and there we go, we've got our rectangle. We can zoom in on that, Command + + a couple of times or so, Control + + of…
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