Dotted line can be a great material to create unique designs if you know how to use it expertly. Creating a dotted line in Adobe Illustrator is fairly easy.
Here are the basic steps in drawing your own dotted line.
Step 1
Open a new document by clicking on “File” > “New“.
Step 2
The New Document window will pop up, supply all necessary properties then press “OK“.
Step 3
Select the “Line Segment Tool” from the tools on the left side of your window.
Step 4
In your artboard, drag hold-click your mouse until you’ve created a new line.
Step 5
After creating a line segment, select “Window” > “Stroke” to open the Stroke Panel.
Step 6
Once the Stroke Panel has been opened, increase the Stroke weight according to preference. In this example, we are going to set the weight to 10 pt.
Step 7
Select the Round Cap button. This will make our line have a rounded edge.
Step 8
Check the box beside “Dashed Line” and in the field above “Dash” type in “0”. This will make sure that your points won’t be elongated into a dashed line and in the field above “Gap” type in a value that’s more than 2. Note that the larger the value, the bigger space you’ll have between points.
Voila! You’ve now created a dashed line.
And that is how to make a dotted line in Illustrator. Which of these tips would work well on your next post? Leave a comment below to tell us what you’ll be trying out…