Tricks | May 20th, 2008
I love the results you can get when working with meshes, but sometimes I don’t love trying to edit them. When a path is converted to a Mesh Object, it is no longer a Path. This can get frustrating if you want the original path for other purposes. To extract the original Path, select the Mesh Object, go Object > Path > Offset Path and enter 0. Now you have a copy!
[...] Extract Paths from Mesh Shapes This is a quick, brief tutorial, but if you’ve been frustrated trying to edit meshes, this will help you convert them back to paths to make editing much easier. [...]
[...] Extract Paths from Mesh Shapes This is a quick, brief tutorial, but if you’ve been frustrated trying to edit meshes, this will help you convert them back to paths to make editing much easier. [...]
[...] Extract Paths from Mesh Shapes [...]
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Super helpful, thanks!
Great post!
Thanks! is very helpful
You spelled “original” wrong.
Thanks for catching that! I forget to spell check the artwork sometimes.
Useful tip. Thanks for sharing!
This is really cool.I was making a greeting card and this helped me a lot
Nice tutorial. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this little trick.
wow this is…. genious !!!
i have read books where it sais once converted to a mesh u never get a path back…. shows again how good vectips is
I have been wanting to do that for YEARS, and now, in a few seconds, it’s done. THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU. I knew there was an easy solution somewhere but wasn’t sure what it would be.
Thanks man. I’ve been wondering how to do this since CS2.
0Oh men this is great save me alot of time and it has been a long time since i asked myself if this could happen, thanks!
love your page
Thank you very much! saved my day
(actually 3 days so far :\ )