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Noob Illustrator Questions
« on: November 17, 2003, 09:24:57 pm »
Help!  I need to draw a "bullnose" on the leading edges of the box pictured below.  Basically should look like there is a strip of quarteround along the leading edge all the way around, but I cannot figure out how to do it in Illustrator.  Thanks!

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Re:Noob Illustrator Questions
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2003, 08:00:20 am »
Is that like t-molding? If so, just use a black-grey-black linear gradient on the edge.  If you mess with the location of the grey then you can get a psuedo-3d look.

otherwise, what's bullnose?



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Re:Noob Illustrator Questions
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2003, 10:35:15 am »
Carpentry term - Actually half-bullnose is what I am trying to add.  See pics

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Re:Noob Illustrator Questions
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2003, 10:35:56 am »
And the side view

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Re:Noob Illustrator Questions
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2003, 12:51:40 pm »
Make a quarter circle, add the diagonals, apply a gradient or two on the angle of the diagonals. Kind of tedious, but not hard.

Then you need to make another quarter circle with two sides (like a piece of pie), to cover the front.

For the other three corners, you might just need the pie.

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Re:Noob Illustrator Questions
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2003, 04:56:14 pm »
Here's one I did. I didn't do the final step of adding in the front.

Some steps I left off of my earlier example.

- use the shift key to constrain your angles to 45 and 90.
- use the scisor tool to cut the wedge out of the circle.
- use the object, path, join command to join the endpoints of the line and the arc.
- with the gradient tool, look at the pallet to change the angle (-45 degrees in my example)

It only took about 10 minutes. After you have one, you can scale it to whatever length and width you need,

You will need to make another if you have a different angle (like an angled CP).

Remember that sections through circles are *always* elipses in persepctive (not ovals or any other shapes) and you won't go wrong.