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.