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Inspiring
Nov 20, 2013 11:59 AM UTC
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Custom Angled Triangles Question

I'm quite suprised that powerful Illustrator does not have any easy solution for creating custom angled triangles. Is there anybody help me to create a custom angle triangle script ?

Thank you,

Best Regards.

Sergey Osokin
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Inspiring
Apr 2, 2025 1:45 PM UTC

Inspired by Carlos' ideas, I combined the two scripts into one — TriangleMaker. It now has a triangle settings dialog and previews.

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Sergey Osokin
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Inspiring
Apr 2, 2025 1:45 PM UTC

Inspired by Carlos' ideas, I combined the two scripts into one — TriangleMaker. It now has a triangle settings dialog and previews.

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Ton Frederiks
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Community Expert
Apr 2, 2025 2:59 PM UTC

Thank you! Love it, I like the Preview and the text option! Maybe in the future a Convert to Shape option (although it is easy to do yourself)

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Sergey Osokin
Inspiring
Apr 2, 2025 4:05 PM UTC

It's easy to do this yourself, but it's also easy to include this command in a script. But why make a custom triangle a dynamic shape?

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bnjmngrn
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Mar 6, 2025 11:25 AM UTC

I've been looking for a solution for this myself recently – I need to create triangles with specific angles for some conical cutter templates – I know I can do it with transform/rotate options, but would be great to have an inbuilt option on the polygon tool, or a new 'triangle' tool where you can specify inner angles!? 

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Anubhav M
Community Manager
Community Manager
Mar 6, 2025 1:54 PM UTC

Hello @bnjmngrn,

I understand that this functionality is important to you. Would you mind creating a UserVoice for this feature request (https://adobe.ly/41HBKZG) and adding your comments there? Doing this will help us prioritize this request, and you will be notified of any updates.


Also, try the suggestions shared in this tutorial (https://adobe.ly/4he1ocZ) and share your observations.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

 

Anubhav

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CarlosCanto
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Community Expert
Nov 20, 2013 3:57 PM UTC

please elaborate, do you want to provide let's say 2 angles and build a triangle?

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Inspiring
Nov 20, 2013 4:08 PM UTC

Yes exactly, I have noticed that there is no such script around the net. I don't have any Illustrator Scripting experience, I can only modify script with the help of scripting dictionaries:)

I have found an example in Adobe Illustrator Scripting Guide;

Basically I want two input box for degree and script should automatically creates a triangle. ( In fact it would be great if we would enter the values of edges (a,b) )

// Create 45 Degree Triangle

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var sel = doc.selection;

dw  = doc.width;

dh = doc.height;

wc= dw /2;

hc = dh *-0.5;

if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {

var triangleGroup = app.activeDocument.groupItems.add();

// Create a triangle and add text, the new art is created inside the group

var trianglePath = triangleGroup.pathItems.add();

trianglePath.setEntirePath( Array( Array(0, 100), Array(100, 0),

Array(0,0) ) );

trianglePath.closed = true;

trianglePath.stroked = true;

trianglePath.filled =true;

trianglePath.strokeWidth = 3;

trianglePath.position = Array(wc,hc);

}

Would you please help me, I would be really grateful:)))

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CarlosCanto
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Nov 20, 2013 5:47 PM UTC

( In fact it would be great if we would enter the values of edges (a,b) )

by "edges", do you mean "sides"?, if so we need a third variable for angle, (a,b,c) (side, side, angle)

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