Hello Apple Valley High School Fab Lab students. Today what I'm going to do is show you how to
use adobe illustrator for the ipad to create a document that can kind of be
set up for using with our laser engraver. So what I'm going to do first is open up adobe illustrator
for the Ipad. And then what I'm going to do next... is go to custom size
I want to change the units to inches, so I'm going to go to points and change that.
to inches. Right now, the width and height is 24 by 18, which is usually what we have for
using with a laser engraver, but I'm going to change that to 6 inches by 6 inches.
I'm doing that because we're going to make a key chain which is only going to be 1 by 2 inches.
And then I'm going to go down to the color mode.
and for engraving on our laser we need to have the color mode as RGB.
Next what I can do is hit create file.
Once that's created I can start editing it.
One of the first things that I want to do if you look at this, it has an artboard.
I want to make, turn on the grid. So I'm going to go over to the grid information and turn it on,
and it's gonna, it doesn't put rulers but it does give us the spacing. So the spacing is one inch grid.
So that, that will give us an idea how big the objects are that we're creating. So I'm done with that.
So I'll click off of that. I'm gonna create a rectangle now. So go over to the shape tool,
and if I click and hold it you notice you have some simple shapes that you can choose.
On the full blown software we have a rounded rectangle which is usually a little bit better
than uh one with sharp corners. So what I'm going to do? I'm making this1 by 2 inches.
That looks good. You notice that it has a white fill,
and what I can do is actually change that fill. I'm also going to change
the stroke. The stroke if I go up to the select tool and click off. You can see that the the stroke
is black. Well for the laser it's got to be red, so I'm going to click on the stroke color selector,
and I'm actually going to type in the correct code for pure red. Which is: f f and then four zeros.
Um looks like it defaults that way. We'll see how that looks.
Now that's looks like that's going to be blue, so I'm going to
type in f f and then four zeros. That should be it and you notice that it's now red. I didn't
select my box so I'm going to do that and select it again, and put in the hex code.
ff and one two three four zeros, and it should be the correct uh color. Looks good I'm also going
to select that rectangle and then I'm going to take the fill out. So I'm going to hit the no fill
and you notice when I click off, the you can see the grid which is why I like using the grid.
Now the the next thing we want to do is we want to create a hole for our um
keychain. So I'm going to go back to the shape tool and select the circle.
I'm going to make it about 0.15 by 0.15 that looks pretty good, close enough. You notice that
if I click off of it, it's the same color as the previous item was, which is good.
Now I'm going to go to the select tool- click on that circle and then move it into where
I want it. You don't want it too close to the edge because if it's too close it will be um,
it'll cut through. I have to resize this, that looks good enough.
So now the next thing that I want to do is- add an image, so I'm going to go to Safari.
I searched Grogu black and white silhouette.
This one came up so I'm going to click and hold that, and I'm going to save that,
to photos. Now what I'm going to do is go into
illustrator again and I'm going to add that picture (from photos).
And there it is and it's huge!
What I need to do is resize this and here's where we're going to kind of have some different
problems that we won't that we'll have to fix on the full-blown software, before we print it.
So I'm going to open up the layers so you can kind of see what is going on with these layers.
You notice that the image is above the two um shapes that we made and I'm gonna leave it
the way it is right now. uh that's set to go if you want to put in text, you could do that too
with the text tool but now what I'm going to do is? Save this, so if I go to to save it,
get out of that
i can go into the
title I'm going to rename it, and you want to rename it with your last name, first initial.
(Don't use any spaces either) class period. So I'm going to say this is for my fourth hour because
I already created one for third hour, and then what the project is - so our project is keychain.
And that's ready to be uploaded to um our schoology assignment link, and then what I will do
is I'll prep the stuff again. I want to show you what needs to be prepped the width of the box
The stroke is actually too big, so if you look at what the stroke is right now- it's about
one pixel wide, and it needs to be .001 for the laser cut and you, I don't think you
can do that on this. So we'll have to change that up before we print them.
But that's it for today. That's how you make a keychain using adobe illustrator for the Ipad.