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seqno
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May 22, 2018
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Changing the origin of a custom brush stroke.

  • May 22, 2018
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I am looking to create a "toothed" line, which is a geologic symbol representing a thrust fault. Thy symbol is simply a line, with triangles on one side to distinguish between up-thrown and down-thrown blocks. To create my custom brush, I placed an equilateral triangle on a line and dragged them into the brushes panel. The attached imaged shows the objects used to create the brush (top) and the result (below).

This works reasonably well, however, Illustrator takes the origin of these two objects to represent the origin of the line, whereas I'd like to have the origin of the line stay the same and simply add the "teeth" on top. This is fine for now, and if I really want, I can just add the teeth manually...

Is there ay way to change the origin of these two objects to create this brush style?

Correct answer Doug A Roberts

the simplest way is to create the brush with a no stroke/fill tooth on the reverse side of the path.

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Doug A Roberts
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Doug A RobertsCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 22, 2018

the simplest way is to create the brush with a no stroke/fill tooth on the reverse side of the path.

seqno
seqnoAuthor
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May 22, 2018

Doug, thanks for the quick response. I actually realized this shortly after submitting the question (should have thought about it a little longer...). Works perfectly.

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January 14, 2025

Could you provide any screen grabs on your process, I dont think I follow. I am getting the same result as OP.