Make conical gradient
Don't tell me abous mesh trick, it has it's limits and surely is not that easy to use.
Just make Conical type gradient from the box.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Margaret Trauth
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oh and until Adobe decides to implement this somewhere in the next decade, here's another workaround that's *slightly* less hassle than the mesh trick:
1. draw a box with a horizontal gradient
2. effect>rasterize it, probably a high dpi, no need for anti-aliasing or adding a border OR object>expand into a bunch of shapes
3. make this into an art brush
4. draw a circle with this brush
(ideally the rectangle is the same height as the width/height of the circle)
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Margaret Trauth
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hahahaha I am here upvoting this one after explaining the mesh trick to someone on a forum :)
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Herman van Boeijen commented
Please. This. Yes.
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Anonymous
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I'm trying to make a gear for example. I want it to have a hollow center, and have a metallic sheen. Neither linear nor radial gradient fills will give me the effect I'm looking for. I have to create a circle, fill the stroke with the gradient, increase the stroke size, and outline stroke. But I can't subtract a shape from the circle, so I have to create the gear as a separate object and make it a clipping mask for the underlying circle.
