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  Blend tool questions – Illustrator

  Posted by Neville310 on August 11, 2005 at 6:26 pm

  I want to place a 4 pixel rectangle, which duplicates around an ellipse 360

  Kim Mackenzie replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kim Mackenzie

  August 11, 2005 at 6:38 pm

  You could make a custom brush, but I think you can get what you need simply by applying a dashed stroke.

  It’s hiding in the Options of the Stroke palette. (In the Stroke palette, if you don’t see options for a Dashed Stroke at the bottom, bring up the palette’s flyout menu and say Show Options).

  Apply a stroke, turn on Dashed Stroke, then play with the stroke weight, dash length and gap length until you get the proportion of rectangle that you’re after. To get railroad-trackish proportioned rectangles, you’ll need a fat stroke and a short dash length.

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