How to Use the Spiral Tool in Illustrator. URL Name. Article Detail Article. Selecting the Spiral First, find the Spiral tool in the main toolbar by clicking and holding your cursor over the Line tool, until a submenu appears with other drawing tools, including the Spiral.
These include: Segments : This refers to the number of line segments in your spiral. With a higher "Segments" value, your spiral will become longer, finding a way to curve inward so that all of the segments make it onto the screen. However, each segment in your spiral is shorter than the last. Radius : Let's say you enter "1"" in the "Radius" box.
This affects the height and width of your first segment, and you can prove this by drawing a 1" x 1" box around the segment, starting at the beginning of the spiral. You can simplify the spirals. You can add Illustrator effects to the spirals. You can join the spirals and more. This tutorial shows you many ways how you can change and enhance the Illustrator spiral path to create totally unique and wow spiral designs for use in your projects.
OK, the spiral path in Illustrator is pretty good to begin with Illustrator and you can generate a number of variations just by changing some of the spiral settings by clicking the artboard or in my case, double clicking as I never get things to respond first time around. OK, once you have the basic spiral it has a stroke setting and that is about it and it is made up of as number of points. You can add to it in a number of ways and this is only a few options.
You can add a round cap to the selected spiral path as well as dash options via the stroke options dropdown to create some amazing spiral paths in Illustrator. Select the spiral and then go to the stroke and set to say 60pt and set to black and then go to the width profile dropdown. The number of width profiles is fairly minimal and I would love to see more added in future versions.
There is an add width profile but all the profiles I have added and I have added many over the years never seem to remain and the list goes back to the default set. Anyway, you can add any of the existing profiles and that will add a lot more style to the spiral in seconds. You can also manipulate the profile by using the width tool and the tool can change the width at any point along the path and not just at anchor points.
You can make thin as well as thick widths but they are all symmetric. Step 2. Then, drag the selected area slightly towards the right as shown in the below image.
After shifting it towards the right, you will get an archimedean spiral. And next, we will go a step forward as we want to draw a spiral.
With the help of the Direct Selection Tool , select alternative lines starting from the center. After selecting the lines, delete them and you will get the shape of a Linear Spiral. This is how you can create a Linear Spiral in Adobe Illustrator. You can also change the color of your perfect spiral.
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