Operation Manual

USING ILLUSTRATOR

Drawing

Last updated 11/8/2011

A. Left Grid Plane B. No Active Grid Plane C. Right Grid Plane D. Horizontal Grid Plane

Plane Switching Widget

For a video on defining the perspective grid, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid5205_ai_en.

You can set options to position the widget on any of the four screen corners and choose to display it when the

Perspective Grid is visible. To set these options, double-click the Perspective Grid icon in the Tools panel. In the

Perspective Grid Options dialog box, you can select the following:

Show Active Plane Widget This option is selected by default. If you deselect this check box, then the widget is not

displayed with the Perspective Grid.

Widget Position You can choose to display the widget on the upper left, upper-right, lower-left, or lower-right corner

of the document window.

When you select the Perspective Selection tool, the left, right, and horizontal grid controls are displayed. You can

switch to the Perspective Selection tool by pressing Shift+V or selecting it from the Tools panel. The Perspective

Selection tool enables you to:

• Bring objects, texts, and symbols in perspective

• Switch active planes using keyboard shortcuts

• Move, scale, and duplicate objects in perspective space

• Move and duplicate objects perpendicular to its current position in the perspective plane. (see “Precise

perpendicular movement” on page 92)

With the Perspective Selection tool, the active planes in the perspective grid are indicated by the following pointers.

The Perspective Selection tool snaps the objects to the grid of the active plane while moving, scaling, duplicating, and

bringing objects into perspective. Objects snap to the grid lines within 1/4th distance of the cell size.

You can enable or disable snapping from View > Perspective Grid > Snap to Grid.

This option is enabled by default.

Perspective grid presets

Illustrator provides presets for one-point, two-point, and three-point perspectives.

Active Plane Pointers

Left Grid Plane

Right Grid Plane

Horizontal Grid Plane