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This way each side can be bulged independently allowing for concave convex meniscus shapes That s it The curvatures can be changed at any time using the Width tool and the initial stroke width constituting the short sides can be changed in the Appearance panel

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As a seasoned design professional I have memorised most of my shapes triangles circles even rectangles but I need to do some research on this shape and for the life of me I cannot think what to google Square with two rounded corners isn t working

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That will create the effect you want but you remain a dirty vector so as an extra step I use the pathfinder tool to merge shapes together willing to create one single shape If you are doing this to Type texts remember to convert them to curves by selecting your text and then pressing Control Shift O Mac Command Shift O

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Draw two shapes lets take the above example make the arrow shape layer above the star shape layer make a copy from the arrow layer and make it invisible select both layers visible arrow and the star with shift key go to the top menu Layer Combine Shapes Subtract Front Shape now turn the invisible arrow layer to visible Enjoy

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I made a couple of vector shapes in AI and I get this strange thin border appearing around them I can t get rid of it Any suggestions Zoomed in

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This is a follow up to my earlier question where I learned that one can trace the edge of a vector image by using a union if all the parts are shapes However while I found instructions for converting a shape to a path I did not find any instructions for the reverse operation How can I convert a path to a shape so I can perform a union

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A lightweight workaround Have 2 copies of the shapes in different layers add a new top layer select all shapes duplicate your shapes remove the strokes move the selection to the layer above In the upper layer the shapes have only the fills but no strokes In the lower layer the shapes have both

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Do the shapes first Select them and Align Centre on horizontal axis then Distribute Make horizontal gaps between objects equal Group the shapes Select the black bar and the group then do Align Centre on horizontal axis and Align Centre on vertical axis

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I searched a lot but among all guides or pictures that identify and name different shapes I couldn t get this particular shape The closest I could get was a stretched ellipse There are only two processes to get this shape as far as I know the first one is making a long rectangle and making its corner radius exactly half of the height