Confused by coordinates

Question

I'm following a Lynda.com tutorial on Illustrator.

In the lesson, he has us create an ellipse of 70 pt and then has us change the x and y value to 70 as well. Doing this places the circle in the upper left corner on his artboard, but when I enter in the same values, it places it just down and left of center. Is there some setting I need to change? What is going on here?

Warren Heaton · Accepted Answer

Has the origin point of your document changed? 0,0 is usually in the upper left, but perhaps you accidentally moved it when you were drawing your guides.

If you're not sure how to check this, Show Rulers (command R, Mac; control R, windows), take a screen shot and then post it.

To restore the default ruler origin, double-click the upper-left corner where the rulers intersect.

You could also be using Artboard Rulers instead of Global Rulers. You can read up on all this here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/rulers-grids-guides-crop-marks.html

-Warren

Steve Werner · Answer

To see the position of your ellipse and how it's controlled, you need to open the Transform panel (Window > Transform), or click the Transform link on the Control panel.

A nine-pointed widget controls what position of an object by which point is selected. It shows the Reference Point. If the upper left reference point is selected (as shown below), then X and Y shows the horizontal and vertical location of the upper left corner of the ellipse. If the center reference point is selected, then it shows the position of the center of the ellipse. (And so on...)

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