Connecting, Joining Paths in Illustrator on the iPad
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
- Connecting, joining paths in Illustrator on the iPad. To make a true join without the extra segment Illustrator will add, make sure to align your anchor points perfectly. This video will show you how using paths drawn with the Pen tool. Works with any path, Pencil paths too.
One extra, not demonstrated in video: You can align 2 endpoints using the align panel - select 2 endpoints using the Direct Selection tool first, then align horizontally and then vertically before joining them as shown in video.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Start
1:20 Selecting points
1:53 Joining with extra segment added
2:23 Removing extra point/segment
3:03 A failed attempt
4:38 Successful attempt, with tips for aligning
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my original and best teacher in illustrator! I learned so much from you maybe 7 years ago and now I am back to learn iPad stuff. thank you for great quality teaching :)
You're very welcome! Thanks!
Excellent video, thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
You always make these look so easy. 👍🏼
Thank you 😊
This was exactly what I needed ! Thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you a lot!
You're welcome!
Thanks so much for the video, just wanted to let you know that if you select 2 anchor points and then click on the align tool and center them up vertically and horizontally it does the same thing only way quicker
That's a great tip, thanks for adding that! You might use my smart guides alignment when you don't want the path to change by moving its endpoint.
thank i love you, teacher
Thank you! 😃
Thanks for this, your instructions are so clear and concise. I was able to join the paths on my ipad illustrator. But for some reason, when I try to do the same after using mirror of an image and try to join the paths at the lower center point, it joins the paths but it also joins from that center to the first starting point. But this doesn’t happen when I join 2 paths that aren’t mirrored. What am I doing wrong?
Glad it helped! "but it also joins from that center to the first starting point" - are you selecting only the 2 end points you want to join first (with direct selection)? If it is joining points you don't intend, they might be part of the current selection.
Thanks a lot, this is the best tutorial, very clear instruction, easy to understand and great voice!
So glad you liked it Kim!
Super great video! One issue I’m running in to is it’s not allowing me to join lines when i mirror the first half of the cad on to the other. Any tips? iPad btw
Are you using a mirror repeat?(rather than just flipping) That creates a repeat object and you have to expand it in order to edit the paths from one side to the other. Object Menu > Expand
Great tutorial. Can I join two vectors into a “T”? As in joining one to the middle of the other vector. Or can I only join two end points?
You can't do the "T" thing. Only join endpoints. One anchor point can't have multiple paths. Thanks for commenting!
Can you show how to connect the end of a line to the center of another. To make like a T shape. I’m trying to trace objects and have lines within the drawing that are part of the “outline” if that makes sense lol
You can’t connect the endpoint of a path to the middle of another path (like a T) that’s not how paths and points work in illustrator. You can make a T but the paths won’t be connected, if that makes sense. But, you can connect a single endpoint to another endpoint. I hope that helps!
Hiya
This video is great!
I’m wondering if you could help
I’m having a lot of trouble deselecting the path tool, it just keeps adding new paths whenever I try to click off it. I’ve tried double tapping the barrel and it doesn’t work, maybe my apple pen is too old. Do you have any idea of how else I can deselect, it’s doing my head in.
Would be very grateful for your help
Thanks
Bethany
Make sure you have the preferences set for double-tapping, but yes, it only works with the new version of the Pencil (with the flat edge). Otherwise, you need to switch to a Selection tool and deselect the path you are currently drawing with the Pen or Pencil tool by clicking in an empty space with a Selection tool. You can choose a selection tool from the tool panel, or if you have a keyboard paired, you can use the keyboard shortcuts: V=Selection, A=Direct Selection, Command/Ctrl=Toggle to last-used selection tool temporarily.
HELLO! I'm stuck on drawing from a completed pen path. AKA I thought I finished the design but need to continue drawing using the pen tool from an anchor point in the middle of it. How is this done?
Secondly, How do I join an anchor point from a closed shape to a separate line? The join end paths button will only do this with open paths from what I've gathered.
Thank you!
It sounds like, in both cases, you want to join on or continue drawing from an anchor point that is not an endpoint. Illustrator doesn't work this way - you can only add on or join to endpoints, not the points running along a path. I hope that helps! You can position multiple paths and shapes and give them the same stroke weight or fill, so they look like they are a whole, and then group them.
Please help; I have a shape consisting of 2 paths that do not connect at eathothers end. How do I get the paths to connect so I can fill them in? Ive tried everything. It seems so simple yet nothing works its frustrating as hell.
Try the Shape Builder in the Combine Shapes menu on the right.
Is there a way you can snap to points on the iPad app?
Not like on the desktop, but if you go to the precision menu and turn on snapping, then it's like smart guides, so points can have that magnetic snap too.
To enable deselect object or path by patting go to App settings/Input/Double pat/Deselect object or path.
Great tip!
I’m struggling to do this with the blob brush!!
This is for Pen tool or Pencil tool paths. Blob brush paths are outlined shapes, not a single line with an anchor point on either end. For blob brush shapes, you can move them to where they overlap and use the shapebuilder tool to merge them together. Hope that helps!
@@LauraCoyle thank you sooo much!! That fixed my problem. I wasn’t making the connection in my mind that the blob brush makes shapes for some reason. You’re the best!!
Awesome!! Thanks
Wow. Do you provide courses at udemy or something like that? great lesson!!!
Thanks! Yes, I do. I have a learning community on Circle with self-paced courses and live monthly Zoom calls. Info is on my site: www.lauracoylecreative.com/learn-illustrator
@@LauraCoyle thanks. do you have there a tutorial for filling surfaces that are NOT surrounded by a closed object (for AI iPad)? is it possible anyway on the iPad?
I'd like to learn to draw like this: th-cam.com/video/671fvu96fGw/w-d-xo.html
without using the 3d function because later on it would be rather complicated organic shape (object design)
@@createinside4613 In Illustrator (iPad or desktop) the way to create something like this glue gun is to treat every surface as a shape. Each change in surface is a shape with a fill (gradient or solid) with the stroke of the path set to none. Then treat your lines separately by duplicating shapes and changing the fill setting to none and the stroke to a line weight. This way, one path can be the outline of the whole glue gun, another non-closed path can be a detail line on the handle etc., and the surfaces are shapes without lines around them.
@@LauraCoyle Thank you very much. I dont get it why the lines must be kept seperately. Unfortunately the Video i did link in the previous comment is in swedish and i am swiss :-). However. If you look for requests for i would like very much to see how you would do a project like the glue pistol. thank you very much for your help and i will check put you learning circle now.
Does this also work with pencil tool?
The paths, whether they are created with the pencil tool or pen tool, can be edited in the same way.
@@LauraCoyle thank you so much!
But how do we add anchor points on a path/shape ?
Use the pen tool and click on the path to add an anchor point.
Terrible tool
take care
Nobody works on an Ipad.
Ok...
Seriously?! Just using the pencil makes it worthwhile! It’s great for tracing (unlike using a mouse - and, I cannot afford a Wacom). So, please refrain from making opinionated statements like this. Everyone is different.
@@AlbertDebruijn Who are you exactly to tell me what I'm allowed to express or not? So, refrain from making opinionated statements like this :)