Comments on: Make a Perfect Triangle Path in Illustrator

By: Zach Browne

Zach Browne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:31:51 +0000

Thanks! What a pain!

By: bubba in bama

bubba in bama — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:15:53 +0000

I am of least average intelligence and I couldn’t figure out how to make a perfect triangle…thanks for talking about the star and the polygon options… you have just dramatically increased the quality of my life.

p.s. stop sharing your knowledge or you might get labeled communist…

By: D.F

D.F — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:41:32 +0000

That’s a great option! Thank you! I am amazed.

By: C

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:30:48 +0000

Um, the reason why there’s no triangle tool is a triangle is just a 3 sided polygon, and there is a polygon tool which allows you to specify any number of sides.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:08:51 +0000

Easier way for a triangle is the polygon tool with just 3 sides, and you won’t have to delete any points

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:19:46 +0000

There’s a much faster way to get a triangle. Select the star tool, create a star, but before releasing the mouse button push the down arrow key on your keyboard until you have a triangle :) You can also use the up arrow keys to add points to the star.

By: Zelia

Zelia — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:22:10 +0000

MAN!!!!! Thank you SO much. I was almost loosing my mind trying to do it from a rectangle.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:20:43 +0000

THANK YOU SFM.

By: fanhuijue

fanhuijue — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:00:20 +0000

Ha, I would draw it in Solidworks then copy directly to illustrator. More useful if the sketch gets really complicated and you wish to dimension things or add relations to lines…etc

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:30:19 +0000

Once again…. you rock.

By: Reuben

Reuben — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:14:15 +0000

Polygon is the best way i have seen, thanks so much for this excellent little piece of knowledge.

By: Leanda Xavian

Leanda Xavian — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:07:23 +0000

We all have different ways of working and the great thing about these tip-sharing sites - of which Bittbox is probably the best - is that even if people have better/different methods, or know something already, things get shared and we all learn something!
Personally I have always used the Polygon tool and set the side amount to 3, but I didn’t know about the up and down arrows thing when drawing stars and polygons. And now I, and several others, know!
Moral: don’t just slag off a tutorial if you know it - share something else with us and embellish it!

By: Nodijo

Nodijo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:12:31 +0000

Totally awesome! The tips and tricks you all have come up with are sooooo appreciated here! I’m a Graphic Design student and graduate in June and need all the help I can get. I am new to Bittbox, feel so much like a ‘kid in a candy store’ here…Thanks again!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:29:46 +0000

hey Bitt.

i found another way to make a triangle, while creating a shape using the polygon tool, just use the down arrow on your keyboard to reduce the number of sides to 3, or you can raise the number of sides to anything.

By: Jeffrey Hicken

Jeffrey Hicken — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:52:20 +0000

As stated before, the polygon tool does the trick, however using the star tool defines the center of each vertices. This way you can draw lines from the center of the vertices to the bisectors of the opposite side to create medians. Where the three medians bisect in the center defines the true center of the triangle.

In developing a chart, I needed to divide an equilateral triangle into three equal proportions. Using the star tool made defining the center of the vertices easier.

By: Pete4Shapes

Pete4Shapes — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:37:34 +0000

As mentioned above there’s the polygon tool which easily makes a triangle or the star tool which achieves the same. Both use the cursor keys to achieve the amount of sides required.
What’s also possible with key combinations and the star tool is using the cmd and alt key (prob control and alt key on a PC). Create a star by click and dragging (without releasing), use the cursor keys to adjust the amount of sides eg. 7, use the alt key to make a dumpy looking star and use the cmd key to make a thin star (great for starbursts).

By: Jakob Wahlberg

Jakob Wahlberg — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:53:57 +0000

just use grid an draw your own triangle, how hard can it be?

By: Chandresh Kesri (Male)

Chandresh Kesri (Male) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:34:43 +0000

Ok thanks.

I agree with your response. Both methods are good and easy to remember.

With regards,
Chandresh Kesari

By: jouda

jouda — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:40:38 +0000

the method with polygon tool + arrows up and down is much faster and better!!!

By: huh

huh — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:47:03 +0000

dear Chandresh Kesri (m/f)?

you’re probably right, except the “now you can say that’s it”
cause we also might need COLOR of the object, LINE color of the object, SHADOW of the object, POSITION of the object, TRANSPARENCY of the object……and other million things you can do in illustrator with a stupid triangle….
but you see… I think the object or theme of this tutorial is another: “Make a Stupid Perfect Triangle”
and that’s it!

so in this case (even though I mentioned the shift hold thing) I think my “tutorial” was very concise and helpful (hope so). trust me, you don’t need to waist more time on a stupid triangle… this is not the case when you need to go slow.. ;)