{"id":95,"date":"2013-03-06T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:31:12","slug":"how-to-create-a-repeating-object-in-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/how-to-create-a-repeating-object-in-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a repeating object in Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This method is going to save me a tonne of time and stop me from having to copy\/paste an object just to replicate a look.<\/p>\n<p>My problem was that I needed to create a listings type wireframe in Illustrator. I would create a single listing, and then to create the desired effect I would simply copy and paste this object a number of times. The inevitable problem comes however when I need to add\/remove\/change something about the repeated object &#8211; I have to delete them all and then re-copy\/re-paste to once again create the desired listings look.<\/p>\n<p>So what you do is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select the object\/group you want to replicate<\/li>\n<li>[effect] &gt; [distort &amp; transform] &gt; [transform]<\/li>\n<li>Set number of copies<\/li>\n<li>Set horizontal or vertical amount<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It takes a second to get the hang of, but once you start using this you can really find some amazing uses for it!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick screenshot to show exactly what it does. In this case it is duplicating the first listings, with 5 copies, 124px apart (vertical).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/transformillustrator.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/transformillustrator-1024x650.png\" alt=\"transformillustrator\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This method is going to save me a tonne of time and stop me from having to copy\/paste an object just to replicate a look. My problem was that I needed to create a listings type wireframe in Illustrator. 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