Right click and select “Arrange” as necessary to bring sections to the front or send them to the back as needed. Depending on your illustration, you may need to create pipes that are at other angles. Copy, paste and transform the pieces of pipe as needed. In this example, the pipe is colored with a 45% gray fill and a black 1 pt stroke. Group the straight section and the fitting.Ĭolor the pipes as desired. Draw a small rectangle to show the fitting.
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Do this by drawing a straight section of pipe using the rectangle tool. Next, draw a straight segment and a fitting. You now have a pipe section with a 90 degree bend. Create an arc and join the lines as done with the first line.Ĭlose off both ends of the drawing using the pen tool. Separate them by two grid sections horizontally and vertically. Repeat the above steps by drawing another set of lines one grid section above and to the right of the first lines. The outline of the inside edge of the pipe is now drawn. Right click and chose “Join” (or press ) on each end of the arc to connect the lines and the arc together. Use the direct select tool to select the end points of the vertical line and the arc. Next, grab the arc tool and connect the two lines with an arc. Draw a Pipeīegin drawing the pipe by creating one horizontal line and then one vertical line offset from the first by one section of the grid horizontally and one section vertically using the pen tool. This can also be done by pressing on the keyboard. To turn it on, click “View” on the menu bar and then “Snap to Grid”. You might find the “Snap to Grid” function useful here. For this example, set the grid to a line every 32pt and 64 subdivisions. Here you can set the properties of the grid according to your needs. Use the combo box to select “Guides and Grid”. (Click any image for a larger view.)Ĭhange the grid properties by clicking “Edit” on the menu bar and then “Preferences” (or press ). Later on, the grid will be used as a guide to connect corners of the pipe using the arc tool.
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The grid should now be visible on the canvas.
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Another way to do this is to press simultaneously. To do this, click “View” on the menu bar and then click “Show Grid”. Open a new Adobe Illustrator CS4 document and make the grid visible. The first step in this tutorial is making the grid visible. Making the Grid Visible in Adobe Illustrator