Illustrator measure tool

The Measure Tool measures the distance between two points and it also measures angles. It’s quite handy for fashion, product, and packaging design because it works great for measuring lines. If you’re doing digital graphic work, many of you might not be familiar with this tool because you don’t need to use it often and you can actually find out the sizes of objects without the actual measure tool.In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to measure lines and objects in Adobe Illustrator with and without the measure tool. Before getting started, I’m going to show you where to find the Measure Tool in Adobe Illustrator. Note: all screenshots from this tutorial are taken from Adobe Illustrator CC Mac version. Windows or other versions can look different. Keyboard shortcuts are also from Mac. Windows users can change the Command key to Ctrl. Where is the Measure Tool in Adobe IllustratorYou probably won’t find the Measure Tool from the toolbar at a glance because it’s hidden in the submenu. Depending on which version of the toolbar you’re using (advanced or basic), you’ll find the measure tool in different locations. You can see and change the toolbar version from the Window > Toolbars. If you’re using the advanced toolbar like mine, you should find the measure tool in the same menu as the eyedropper tool. At least that’s my default setting. If you’re using a basic toolbar, you’ll find the Measure Tool from the Edit Toolbar menu. Now that you’ve found the tool, let’s find out how to use it.I’m going to show you an example of how to use the Measure Tool to measure lines in Adobe Illustrator. Step 1: Select the Measure Tool from the toolbar. There isn’t a keyboard shortcut for the Measure Tool itself but you can use the shortcut Command + F8 to open the Info panel, which shows the measurement information that we’ll use in Step 2. Step 2: Click on the starting point of the line that you want to measure and drag it all the way through the ending point of the line. When you click on the artboard, the Info panel pops up automatically and you’ll be able to see the size or dimension information there. For example, if you want to measure the dimensions of this box. Starting with one side (line). Click and drag and you’ll see the length shown as D is 40.1285 mm, which is the length of the side (line) that I measured.You can do the same to measure the rest of the sides.By the way, the dimension might not make sense for an actual packaging box, it’s just for showing you how to use the tool. How to

You are here: Home / How-Tos / Sewing / Using Adobe Illustrator for flat pattern draftingI draft my own sewing patterns. I had been doing this on paper, but got tired of having to copy, cut, tape, and recopy patterns every time I wanted to modify a design. I also wanted to be able to save old versions of designs without drowning in a sea of paper.I investigated professional pattern drafting software, but they typically cost about $5000, far out of my reach. I tried pattern drafting software for the home sewer, but found their CAD programs to be frustratingly difficult and inefficient. Then I remembered that I had Adobe Illustrator! I had never used it, but decided to give it a go.And it worked!Here is a tutorial on (or maybe just some examples of) using Adobe Illustrator for flat pattern drafting. It does assume that you know how to use Illustrator (and the Vector Scribe plugin that I added), but if you are clever enough to figure out flat pattern drafting, you are clever enough to figure out how to use the pen tool and dynamic measure tool, and that’s really all you need.The first section discusses drafting a sloper – which contains all the concepts you need to draft any pattern. The second section discusses moving dart, and the third section discusses using layers to reuse shared parts of the pattern, reducing drafting time and making changes far speedier.Part I: Drafting a SloperI started by drafting a sloper from scratch. I had previously installed the Vector Scribe Designer plugin for Illustrator, which contains a bazillion useful measurement tools, and started by using the Dynamic Measure Tool to lay out the pattern. My pattern drafting book (Patternmaking for Fashion Design, by Helen Joseph-Armstrong) gives detailed instructions on lines, measurements, and angles, and fortunately Vector Scribe does all three. Here is a picture of my screen partway through the measuring process:Step 1 – Laying out initial measurements in Adobe Illustrator using the Vector Scribe plugin" data-image-caption="Step 1 – Laying out initial measurements in Adobe Illustrator using the Vector Scribe plugin" data-medium-file=" data-large-file=" title="Step 1 - Laying out initial measurements in Adobe Illustrator" src=" alt="Step 1 - Laying out initial measurements in Adobe Illustrator using the Vector Scribe plugin" width="255" height="400">Step 1 - Laying out initial measurements in Adobe Illustrator using the Vector Scribe pluginUsing the Dynamic Measure tool, I clicked on the first endpoint, then dragged the mouse out to create each of the red lines. As I dragged, the tool displayed the length and angle of the segment, and when I clicked, it added a line with measurements printed next to the line.Here is my screen after I had finished all the measurements and laid out all the points:Step 2 – All measurements laid out" data-image-caption="Step 2 – All measurements laid out" data-medium-file=" data-large-file=" title="Step 2 - All measurements laid out" src=" alt="Step 2 - All measurements laid out" width="255" height="400">Step 2 - All measurements laid outNext I took

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