adobe have added a new feature to illustrator and i think you're going to agree with me that
it's really really useful and i'm going to explain everything you need to know in under five minutes
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you've gone ahead and updated your illustrator cc application you're going to find this new feature
under the object and then the repeat menu so we have three options here for us we have the radial
the grid and also the mirror however there is also an options menu which when you click it
opens up this new window so as you can see we also have the same three categories of the radial grid
and mirror into this option this menu is going to come in handy later but first let's check out the
radial repeat function so i have a stroked circle on my artboard and if i click the radio repeat
function illustrator evenly distributes my object eight times around the circle hence
the term radial this slider dictates the amount of circumference of the radial area that can be
seen so you can show or hide different amounts of your repeated pattern and then this slider here
adds or removes the amount of times your object is repeated so with this function we can have quite a
lot of fun and also make things like spirograph style vectors we can also drag this button here
to bring in or out the radial line and we are able to adjust the strokes of our design in real time
also up here we can adjust the size of the radio area too and i absolutely love this style of
geometric design but let's move on to the next section which is the grid repeat option i'm sure
you're like me you've probably wanted a way to repeat a design asset and then edit it thereafter
well the grid repeat option allows you to do just that once repeated we can control how much of the
repetition we want to show or hide with these sliders here the other two sliders control the
gap between our repeated pattern which we can again change in real time but it's also worth
noting that we can adjust the color of our design as well all while still editing the repetition
if we want to edit individual aspects of our design expanding and then ungrouping
is not going to do anything we actually need to come into the pathfinder window
and perform something like a divide operation and then of course ungroup everything
this will then allow us to work on individual aspects of our pattern design
so still with the repeat grid function let's open up the options menu we saw earlier
from this window we can control the way in which things are orientated on the grid repeat pattern
as well as the dimensions of the thing itself in precise measurements
it's always nice to have complete control over something in illustrator with precise numbers
so the third repeat function is the mirror repeat and this one is pretty straightforward
you have a design and then you give yourself a mirror line to which you can then move your
design around in real time however there are some things you need to be aware of
now firstly with all of the repeat functions in today's video it might be worth noting
that you can switch on the real-time drawing option and you can then see your design move
smoothly and effective around your artboard and of course this is open to all cc users
we can also rotate the mirror line itself and i have found that with the mirror line
you can hold down the shift key and this will orientate your design by 90 degrees meaning the
mirror line itself moves at 45 degrees we can also change this up here in the drop down menu
there is one more thing you need to take into consideration when using this mirror repeat option
so you've got a mirror design like i do here you can then come into the layers window
and you will realize we have one vector object yet we have four different assets on the artboard
now this is a lot like the appearance panel where we can create many different design
aspects from one vector object but we can turn it into individual design components
by clicking this bar at the very top and then ungrouping everything like so
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