How do you create a (6 sided) hexagon shape and make the hexagon point up?
To create a hexagon in adobe illustrator you will need the polygon tool. This tool allows to create any shape by allowing you to enter the number of sides of the desired polygon. Once selected, click anywhere on the canvas and a window will come up in which you may enter the desired number of sides, in this case six, and then the toll will draw the shape according to the specs. For the next step we need the rotate tool, select the rotate tool, and then move the shape until it snaps or enter the degrees in the prompt box. Alternatively, you may also use the select tool and hover over the corner of the bounding box and hold shift to rotate and snap once the curved double arrow appears in the pointer.
What tool in Illustrator can change a straight-line anchor point to a Bezier curve?
There are a couple of ways in which this may be achieved. When using the pen tool, one can simply press shift and click off handles when drawing or press option and keep the curve while erasing the handle. There is also a curve pen tool that lets you adjust anchor points in any shape by simply selecting the tool and clicking on the point that you wish to change to a curve.
Hi Sebastian,
You gave a detailed explanation for how to achieve each solution. It’s also useful to note that after creating the hexagon, one can rotate it using the select tool or the rotate tool, ensuring it points upwards effectively. Regarding the conversion of straight-line anchor points to Bezier curves, it’s worth mentioning the efficiency of the anchor point tool (shift+c) for this task.
You can select the polygon tool and make it 6 sides and the radius 50. Then go to one of the corners and rotate holding the shift key to 90 degree angle for the hexagon to be pointing up, after you do that You get the pen tool and you start to create many different triangles
The anchor point tool lets you make a bezier curve. You can click the anchor point and drag it where you want. And you can click the pen tool and drag the anchor points.