how to create

1. Create the basic green shape.
2. Draw one spike triangle that is oriented from the bottom left to towards the center.
3. Make 2 copies to make three.
4. Draw one line that goes across from the top left to the bottom right.
5. Copy it 11 times.
6. Give each line a bit more of stroke weight.
7. Convert all 12 lines into shapes. Object/Path/Outline Stroke.
8. Select all the shapes except for the green element and unify them with the Pathfinder.
9. Finally cut the resulting shape out of the green element.

Ivan, that's the hard way buddy. :)

Just create the boxes at the beginning of the line and at the end and use the 'step and repeat' tool (the square going to the circle in the toolbar) and modify the steps to 10. Ad that piece to the larger piece to the upper right to fit. Should work.

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It may not be as consistent, but it'll primarily do the trick. That's the REAL easy way.

But both suggestions from Ivan and Nato are good, too! =P

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

Why would this solution puzzle you? It's just that, another solution.

You just create a rectangle box, and then use the eraser tool to erase straight lines, if you will. This is not a complicated solution. It may not produce exact results as shown in the image above, but it can be quite arbitrary.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

and it does work. You can even alter the size of the brush to create the same results as above. If you hold down the shift key while using the eraser, it does it in a straight line.

Haven't you ever done this?

Even though it's a vector program and everything is mathematical, the eraser tool acts like it's a raster image. It's pretty cool. And very simple.

That's what these threads are for. To learn new ideas and methods.

Suzanne

/sigh

I came up with Ivan's way of doing it as well, before I read the comment. It just seems like the way to make the shapes the most even to me. >< Perhaps I need to think of more alternative tools in Illustrator.

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Hello. Did anyone read my post? :)

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Powerpoint is not a design application
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I would have made the green shape and then white shapes on top of it. Way easier (for me, anyway) than any of the above. Would take me just a few minutes to redraw this that way.

(you'd obviously subtract the white shapes from the green shapes in the pathfinder palette, forgot that part and figured I'd better add it in before someone calls me on it. ;) )