8 Replies Latest reply: Jul 10, 2014 11:56 PM by CarlosCanto RSS

    Shortcut to move, rotate, scale a pattern inside

    Daté TETEGAN Community Member

      Hi Everyone,

       

      I'm working in the fashion industry where we are creating a lot of patterns and textile designs.

       

      The Adobe illustrator help guide explain the following tip to transfom pattern inside a vector shape without having to move the vector object :

       

      • To transform patterns but not objects when using a transform tool, hold down the tilde key (~) while dragging. The borders of the object appear to be transformed, but when you release the mouse button, the borders snap back to their original configuration, leaving only the pattern transformed.

       

      http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6480a .html#WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-647ba

       

       

      It seems this shorcut works only with US and UK keyboard.

       

      I'm using a french keyboard where it doesn't work, probably because there is'nt any key especially dedicated to the Tilde sign (~), and you need to combin multiple keys to get this symbol (Alt GR + the key 2 above the key Z) .

       

      I finally found the shortcut on MAC which is the keyboard key with the britisih pound sterling symbol (£). But not on PC !!!

       

      Can anybody tell me how to get this shortcut on PC with a french keyboard ?

       

      Is there a way to change the shortcut for this very useful option, without having to take care of the kind of keyboard ?

       

      It would be very kind if someone can help me to fix this issue.

       

      Thanks a lot.

       

      Daté