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FreeHand®
Drawing Technique No. 1
Part B |
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8. As soon as you click the mouse button
the pointer will change to a radial shape similar to
the screen shot below. Release the mouse.
![](images/fhdraw108.gif)
9. When you release the mouse button,
there will be five evenly spaced lines radiating from
a single point.
![](images/fhdraw109.gif)
10. Select the Elipse tool and create
four concentric circles. For each circle, click on the
same grid intersection as before, then hold the Shift
and Option (Macintosh®) /
Alt (Windows®) keys while
dragging. Holding the Shift key will constrain them
to a circular shape and holding the Option / Alt key
will draw the circles from the center point outwards.
The spacing of the circles will be even in this tutorial
because we are using a grid. The exact specifications
in a drawing you may do may call for a different spacing.
For simplicity we'll use the grid spacing in this tutorial.
![](images/fhdraw110.gif)
11. Select the five radiating lines.
![](images/fhdraw111.gif)
12. Bring up the Stroke Inspector. The required width
for the stroke will be unique for each situation, but
for this tutorial we'll use a stroke of 16 points.
13. This will fatten the lines to create the necessary
spacing between the arcs that form the grate.
![](images/fhdraw113.gif)
14. FreeHand requires closed paths when combining objects.
One quck way to do this is to expand the stroke of the
five lines. Click Modify > Alter Path > Expand
Stroke.... In the dialog click "OK" and
, accept the width of the lines (16 points in this case).
![](images/fhdraw114.gif)
15. Next, combine the five separate closed paths into
a single closed path by clicking Modify > Combine
> Union.
![](images/fhdraw115.gif)
16. Now select the four concentric circles. If you
are using FreeHand 9 you can double-click the Pointer
tool and set it up to be Contact Sensitive. By doing
so you can easily select all four circles at once by
dragging the Pointer tool in a manner similar to the
screen shot shown below.
![](images/fhdraw116.gif)
17. When the four concentric circles are selected,
your screen should look similar to the example below.
![](images/fhdraw117.gif)
18. Once again bring up the Stroke Inspector and choose
a stroke width of 8 points for the circles. The exact
specifications of a drawing you may be making may require
a different stroke, but for this tutorial we will use
8 points.
![](images/fhdraw118.gif)
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