| Start by
drawing a square, then add a vertical guide
and a horizontal guide to the page. In the
top menu go to view and select lock guides,
click on this to unlock the illustrator guides. |
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| Now click
and drag the mouse to select the two guides
and the square, and in the Align menu select
Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align
Center. |
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| This will
center the guides in the middle of the square.
Next we need to create a thin strip, you can
either use the rectangle tool or draw one
using the pen tool, for this tutorial I'm
using the pen tool as I want the strip to
taper off slightly on one end. |
| We now
need to position the bottom of the strip at
the center of the square and again we can
align it by selecting all the elements and
clicking Horizontal Align Center, should look
something like the image on the right. |
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Click
on the strip to select it and then select
the rotate tool 
from the main tools menu and position the
mouse cursor exactly in the center over the
guides (it should change colour when its in
the middle, now on the keyboard press the
alt key, a small minus symbol should appear
and click the mouse button. (this alters the
rotation point of the object) |
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| A
rotate panel will appear in this we can type
in the angle of rotation we need, for this
tutorial I'm using 4.5, its best to choose
a number that will divide into 360. Now click
the copy button and then on the keyboard press
Ctrl + D (on a PC) Apple + D (on an Apple
Mac) and keep pressing until the strip has
created a full circle. |
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