how can i know the route a line will take in illustrator?

[Hyuuga154A]

I'm making a laser cut file, in coreldraw I can see the route the line will take, how can I do the same thing in Illustrator?

Corel:

Illustrator

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

you can add Arrowheads of your choice to show path direction

[Doug A Roberts]

I think you chose exactly the right arrowhead for the situation too.

[CarlosCanto]

...that way! hahaha

[Hyuuga154A]

i try this, but did not work. The RDVision don't recognize the directions.

I give up, I'll make the entire thing again, Thanks.

[CarlosCanto]

how does RDVision work? does it look at a drawing with a camera and tries to recognize the directional triangles? 

you can make your own arrowheads in Illustrator if none of the existing ones work for you. Try replicating the ones that corel uses.

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi @Hyuuga154A 

There is no button for that like in Corel Draw.

But I would simply assign arrowheads to the contours (or the contours of a duplicate of your paths) for start and end. The result should be the same.

[pixxxelschubser]

😄

Two souls - one thought.

Hi Carlos

😉

[CarlosCanto]

we posted almost at the exact same tiem 🙂

[pixxxelschubser]

Does the RDVision program need the actual path direction (Start --> End)? Have you created the paths with the correct path direction? Have you assigned the correct arrowheads to the start and end points?

Or what @CarlosCanto asked: Does the RDVision program need real arrowheads? Make a copy of all paths (with correctly assigned arrowheads) and convert the arrowheads to real paths.

Side note:

To easily reverse the path direction use the script wr-reversepathdirection.js by Wolfgang Reszel