Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 150 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.
Question 01 –
How do you create a (6 sided) hexagon shape and make the hexagon point up?
Question 02 –
What tool in Illustrator can change a straight line anchor point to a bezier curve?
In order to make a 6-sided Hexagon shape, you would use the polygon tool to make the polygon and if it does not have 6 sides already you would hold your Shift + Up Arrow to increase the sides, or if there are too many sides you would Shift + Down Arrow. After making sure you have 6 sides you would use the Rotate tool (R) and rotate the hexagon to make it point straight up.
The pen tool will help with making a bezier curve but with a straight line, if you already have one and want to make a curve to it, you would have to use the Anchor Point Tool. The Anchor Point Tool is located in the same category as the Pen tool. You can also press Shift+C to bring it up as well.
In order to make a 6 sided hexagon shape you will need to look for the polygon tool. This tool you use to make any pointed shapes such as triangles and stars etc. As for making it a 6 sided shape, you would need to look for the polygon tool on the tools bar and if it is not you can look it up on the search bar or windows bar I believe. Once you have the polygon tool selected you would need to click on any place on the art board you choose. There will automatically produce a pop up giving you options such as sides and shape, you input 6 under sides, press enter and then it posts it for you l. You can also change how rounded you would like your shape to be as well. A lot of good stuff!
The tool that changes a straight line anchor to a BĂ©zier curve would be the anchor point tool. Firstly you will click, hold your mouse, donât let go, move either up or down depending on where you would like for your curve to be.
a. To create a hexagon in illustrator you will go to the tools panel first and select the polygon tool. Then, you can click anywhere on the canvas to pull up the measurements and input the six 6 sides and however big you want your hexagon to be and set it as the final value. After, you can use the selection tool to rotate and make it vertical.
b. The pen tool allows you to create a bezier curve. With the pen tool you can click and create a straight line then use the anchor-point tool to create a bezier curve from the straight line.
Hi, How are you, thank you for sharing, I totally agree with you about pen tool and bezier curve. I usually just draw quickly with pentool but then a Bezier Curve comes along and helps alot to adjust
Ooo~ I didnât know about the clicking and dragging one? I always just clicked on the art board and waited for the polygon pop up box to appear but I love short cuts so the traditional way I would do. Man I would hate it because it wouldnât be up to my lazy impatient. Speed
Hi,
1. I would create the 6 sided hexagon shape by going to the polygon tool then drag my cursor to the Artboard. Then, hold down the key Alt and click. Then, a menu would pop up, and then I would type in 6 and then I would use the pen tool to trace out the 6 sided hexagon shape I just created. After I traced 6 triangles around the hexagon, I would delete the hexagon shape
To make the hexagon point up, there are 2 ways. First, select the hexagon with the black arrow key (selection tool) and move the cursor to the corner of the hexagon. A rotation icon should pop up at the corner and just the selection tool to rotate the hexagon to point straight up. Second, use the rotate tool and select the hexagon to rotate it to point up. 2.
The tool in Illustrator that can change a straight line anchor point to a Bezier curve is the anchor point tool in the pen tool. Click on the pen tool and hold the mouse. Then drag down all the way at the bottom and that should be the anchor point tool.