Creating and Editing Shapes - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 87

6. Choose Window > Transform to open the Transform panel. Click the red rectangle to
select it, and note the width in the Transform panel. Click the ellipse again, and see if
the widths are the same in the Transform panel. If not, correct the ellipse by typing the
same width value as the red rectangle and pressing Enter or Return. Close the
Transform panel group.
7. Choose Select > Deselect, and then choose File > Save.

Note
If you corrected the width in the Transform panel, the ellipse may no longer
be aligned with the rectangle. With the Selection tool, drag the ellipse
horizontally to align it again.

Creating polygons
Now, you'll create two triangles for the roof of the house, using the Polygon tool ( ).
Polygons are drawn from the center, by default, which is different than the other tools you've
worked with so far.
1. Choose View > Fit Artboard In Window.
2. Click and hold down the mouse button on the Ellipse tool ( ) in the Tools panel, and
select the Polygon tool (

).

3. Click the Fill color in the Control panel, and make sure that the color is a light gray
(with the tool tip values “C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=20”).
4. Position the pointer above the brown rectangle. Drag to the right to begin drawing a
polygon, but don't release the mouse button. Press the down arrow key three times to
reduce the number of sides on the polygon to three (a triangle), and don't release the
mouse yet. Hold down the Shift key to straighten the triangle. Without releasing the
Shift key , drag left or right until the Smart Guides measurement label displays a width
of approximately 3.5 in. Release the mouse, and then release the modifier key.