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GORDON/CARTAGRAM, LLC
Rounding a Corner
Using Live Corners to Create a Map Symbol
Overview:
Create text and artwork; draw a rectangle to encompass the artwork; drag
corner widgets or work in the Control or Transform panels to round and invert cor-
ners.
Steven Gordon uses a variety of geometric shapes to build map symbols. For
this location map of Mont Belvieu, Texas, Gordon designed complex road
symbols using Live Rectangles and Live Corners rather than using basic
geometric shapes like ellipses and rectangles.
1 Creating a scalloped map symbol by changing the corner type.
Gordon needed a
junction map symbol with scalloped corners. He began by typing “JCT” and
then drew a rectangle around it (which automatically opened the Transform
panel). To create the scalloped corners using the Direct Selection tool, he
pressed the Option/Alt key and clicked once on a corner widget to change its
corner type to Inverted Round. Then, letting go of Option/Alt, Gordon
dragged the widget inward to scallop the corners. Alternatively, you can
change corner type by either clicking Corners in the Control panel, or via the
pop-up Corner Type in the Transform panel that displays icons for Round,
Inverted Round, and Chamfer corners.
