Shear angle

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How to retrieve shear angle for different shapes ( like star, rounded rectangle, pentagon, triangle etc.) By using path points in illustrator?

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Charu Rajput

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Hi,

I have not tried myself, but may be following link will help

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/retrieve-the-details-of-shear-angle-horizontal-scale-and-vertical-scale/td-p/12861335

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femkeblanco

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Hi @Charu Rajput I don't think that'll work. That's for placed/raster items. Path items don't have a transformation matrix property.

It may be possible to get the shear angle if the polygons are (1) regular, (2) tranformed from upright orientation and (3) tranformed with shear without rotation. That's too many ifs. Otherwise I can't see how it could be done.

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Charu Rajput

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@femkeblanco

Thank you, Correct and Noted.. 🙂

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Kurt Gold

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I think Earth is looking for a way to do it via scripting.

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Jacob Bugge

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Earth,

In many cases it is rather complicated because the shear angle used on the object is only reflected in certain cases, such as (rounded) rectangles sheared from horizontal or vertical sides.

In those cases, you can snap to and ClickDrag with the Line Segment Tool along a relevant straight segment, either between the end Anchor Points or just between two points on the segment, then DoubleClick the Line Segment Tool and see the angle

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