TFTEC 3105 – CAD
DRAWING MODES AND BRUSHES
Drawing modes
• Illustrator provides the following drawing modes:
A. Draw Normal
B. Draw Behind
C. Draw Inside
• Draw Normal mode
o is the default drawing mode.
o You can select drawing modes from the Tools panel,
o To switch through drawing modes, click the Drawing Modes panel in the Tools panel and
select the drawing mode.
o You can also use the Shift+D keyboard shortcut to cycle through the drawing modes.
• Draw Behind mode
o The Draw Behind mode allows you to draw behind all artwork on a selected layer if no
artwork is selected.
o If an artwork is selected, the new object is drawn directly beneath the selected object.
o The draw behind mode is honored in the following cases:
▪ Creating new layers
▪ Placing symbols
▪ Placing files from the File menu
▪ Using Alt+Drag to duplicate objects
▪ Using Paste in Place and Paste on All Artboards options
• Draw Inside mode
o The Draw Inside mode allows you to draw inside the selected object.
o The Draw Inside mode eliminates the need to perform multiple tasks such as drawing and
altering stacking order or drawing, selecting, and creating a clipping mask.
o The draw inside mode is enabled only when there is a single selected object (path,
compound path, or text).
Brushes
• There are different types of brushes in Illustrator: calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle.
You can achieve the following effects using these brushes:
o Calligraphic brushes
▪ Create strokes that resemble those drawn with the angled point of a calligraphic pen
and are drawn along the center of the path.
▪ When you use the Blob Brush tool, you can paint with a calligraphic brush and
automatically expand the brush stroke into a fill shape that merges with other filled
objects of the same color that intersect or are adjacent in stacking order.
o Scatter brushes
▪ Disperse copies of an object (such as a ladybug or a leaf) along the path.
o Art brushes
▪ Stretch a brush shape (such as Rough Charcoal) or object shape evenly along the length
of the path.
o Pattern brushes
▪ Paint a pattern—made of individual tiles—that repeats along the path.
▪ Pattern brushes can include up to five tiles: the sides, inner corner, outer corner,
beginning, and end of the pattern.
o Bristle brush
▪ Create brush strokes with the appearance of a natural brush with bristles.
Calligraphic Brush Option
• Angle. Determines the angle of rotation for the brush.
• Roundness. Determines roundness of the brush.
• Diameter. Determines the diameter of the brush.
• Fixed. Creates a brush with a fixed angle, roundness, or diameter.
• Random. Creates a brush with random variations in angle, roundness, or diameter.
• Pressure. Creates a brush that varies in angle, roundness, or diameter based on the pressure of
a drawing stylus.
• Stylus Wheel. Creates a brush that varies in diameter based on manipulation of the stylus wheel.
o This option is intended to be used with an airbrush pen that has a stylus wheel on its barrel
and with a graphics tablet that can detect that pen.
• Tilt. Creates a brush that varies in angle, roundness, or diameter based on the tilt of a drawing
stylus.
o This option is most useful when used with Roundness.
o It is available only if you have a graphics tablet that can detect how close to vertical the
pen is.
• Bearing. Creates a brush that varies in angle, roundness, or diameter based on the bearing of
the pen.
o This option is most useful when used to control the angle of calligraphic brushes, especially
when you’re using the brush like a paintbrush.
o It is available only if you have a graphics tablet that can detect the direction in which the
pen is tilted.
• Rotation. Creates a brush that varies in angle, roundness, or diameter based on how the drawing
stylus pen tip is rotated.
o This option is most useful when used to control the angle of calligraphic brushes, especially
when you’re using the brush like a flat pen.
o It is available only if you have a graphics tablet that can detect this type of rotation.
Colorization options for scatter, art, and pattern brushes
• The colors that a scatter, art, or pattern brush paints depend on the current stroke color and the
colorization method of the brush.
• To set the colorization method, select one of the following options in the Brush Options dialog
box:
o None
▪ Displays colors as they appear in the brush in the Brushes panel.
▪ Choose None to keep a brush the same colors as in the Brushes panel.
o Tints
▪ Displays the brush stroke in tints of the stroke color.
▪ Portions of the art that are black become the stroke color, portions that aren’t black
become tints of the stroke color, and white remains white.
▪ If you use a spot color as the stroke, Tints generates tints of the spot color.
▪ Choose Tints for brushes that are in black and white, or when you want to paint a brush
stroke with a spot color.
o Tints And Shades
▪ Displays the brush stroke in tints and shades of the stroke color.
▪ Tints and Shades maintains black and white, and everything between becomes a blend
from black to white through the stroke color.
o Hue Shift
• Uses the key color in the brush artwork, as shown in the Key Color box.
• (By default, the key color is the most prominent color in the art.)
• Everything in the brush artwork that is the key color becomes the stroke color.
Scatter brush options
• Size. Controls the size of the objects.
• Spacing. Controls the amount of space between objects.
• Scatter. Controls how closely objects follow the path independently on each side of the path.
o The higher the value, the farther the objects are from the path.
• Rotation. Controls the angle of rotation of the objects.
• Rotation Relative To. Sets the angle of rotation for scattered objects relative to the page or the
path.
o For example, if you select Page, at 0° of rotation, objects point to the top of the page.
o If you select Path, at 0° of rotation, objects are tangent to the path.
Art brush options
• Width
o Adjusts the width of the art relative to its original width.
o You can specify the width using the Width option slider.
o The art brush Width pop-up menu has pen tablet options for adjusting scale variation, such
as Pressure, Stylus Wheel, Tilt, Bearing, and Rotation.
o The default art brush width is 100%.
• Brush Scale Options
o Preserves proportions in scaled art.
o The options available are: Scale Proportionately, Stretch to Fit Stroke Length, Stretch Between
Guides.
• Direction
o Determines the direction of the artwork in relation to the line.
o Click an arrow to set the direction:
▪ to place the left side of the art is the end of the stroke;
▪ to place the right side of the art is the end of the stroke;
▪ to place the top of the art is the end of the stroke;
▪ to place the bottom of the art is the end of the stroke.
• Flip Along or Flip Across. Change the orientation of the art in relation to the line.
• Colorization.
o Pick a color for the stroke and method of colorization.
o You can select from different colorization methods using this drop-down list.
o The options are Tints, Tints and Shades, and Hue Shift.
• Overlap. To avoid joins and folds of an object’s edges to overlap, you can select the Overlap
adjustment button.
Pattern brush options
• Scale. Adjusts the size of tiles relative to their original size.
• Spacing. Adjusts the space between tiles.
• Tile buttons. Let you apply different patterns to different parts of the path.
• Flip Along or Flip Across. Changes the orientation of the pattern in relation to the line.
• Fit. Determines how the pattern fits on the path:
o Stretch To Fit lengthens or shortens the pattern tile to fit the object.
o This option can result in uneven tiling.
• Colorization. Pick a color for the stroke and method of colorization.
o You can select from different colorization methods using this drop-down list.
STROKES
• Using the Stroke panel, the Control panel, or the Properties panel, we could adjust the different
stroke width and profile that is available in Adobe Illustrator.
• We could also change and define the shape of the lines, caps and joints of each stroke.
• A cap is the end of an open line; a join is where a straight line changes direction (turns a
corner)
TYPES OF CAPS AND JOINS
A. Butt Cap- Creates stroked lines with squared ends.
B. Round Cap- Creates stroked lines with semicircular ends.
C. Projecting Cap- Creates stroked lines with squared ends that
extend half the line width beyond the end of the line.
- This option makes the weight of the line extend equally in all
directions around the line.
A. Miter Join- Creates stroked lines with pointed corners.
B. Round Join- Creates stroked lines with rounded corners.
C. Bevel Join- Creates stroked lines with squared corners.