I've been doing this manually for about 25years whenever I'd need to draw up plans. Finally, a more efficient method in Illustrator arrives that has existed in other software for decades.
25 years a go u had to know program and need to be some good in this know some mathematic. Now u need just good PC and adobe cloud with tutorial get 3500€ for that per month
I've been waiting for illustrator to have a tool like this similar to something in AutoCAD. Was literally thinking about this yesterday while doing some drawings. Thanks again ❤
This measuring tool was supposed to be on Illustrator many years ago... I remember the days when a lot of people were complaining because they didn't create this simple tool and because of that there were some plugins which cost some money... Even so, Corel Draw had this tool for many many years... Illustrator was used and is still being used not for illustrations only, but for package design also for different vector plan projects etc.. and they decided to put this tool only now... so sad Adobe :)).
Adobe don't make it just because it will be on the radar of AutoCAD. Companies make inner collaboration. Now autodesk is well established and market is saturated, Adobe release it.
@@rajendrameena150silly argument. If your logic is valid AI won't have had more than half of its tools... Such as circle, line, scale, trim and almost everything else... More convincing argument: Greed.
@@ytskt bro measurement always hit and hinder the creativity, you will know this if you are architect because we do both site work and design work and we know that in site we have specific measurement to play with design that left only few options but when there are no measurements you can draw anything on blank canvas just taking care of proportion.
@@ytskt Also the circle, rectangle tools are basic for vector work but measurement tool opens a new door apart from designing digital to real world objects and that's Adobe try to avoid generally because it want to limit their user in digital and entertainment space.
@@ZoranImsiragic you have those options in the stroke panel of Illustrator. Not only that, you even have a stroke dedicated tool to vary the width of the line from dot to dot.
@ValdemarDeMatos Nope. These options are there but not in all combinations. If you want to have the same corners, that is possible only when stroke is aligned on the centre, but not when it is aligned inside or outside. I'm glad that you want to defend Illustrator. I'm a former ACI for Illustrator, and I'm using it daily.
@@ZoranImsiragic I’m not defending Illustrator 😅. I’m just trying to understand what are the things that you are missing because I can’t think of other things that can be done with a stroke apart from what I see there. I’ll check those corner combinations you’re referring to and I’ll certainly learn something new. 🙇 By the way, did CorelDRAW have these options? I’ve used it before, many years ago, and I also don’t remember nothing similar to what you describe.
I’m a graphic design student and we use illustrator literally every day. Subscribing to your channel and watching your videos has definitely helped me. Thanks for sharing the details on this helpful new tool! 😊
Tried it out. It's a good start. About 20+ years behind Corel Draw at this point. I think it still has a lot of work to go before people can fully migrate over from being third party plugin-free.
I’m talking specifically about having a fully fleshed out dimension tool. What they released in this beta feature is more or less about 45% of what you get with the dimension tool that has already been baked into Corel Draw for 20+ years now. Now the argument of which application is better? That’s more a matter of personal preference. I use Corel for my day job, but love all the features and workflow in illustrator.
@@Haribollll Corel is better for technical drawing since it's accurate to 10 microns, while Illustrator leaves a lot to be desired for precise snapping and such. I used to use Corel for isometric drawing for tech manuals and those tools were much better than Illy's. It's difficult in Illustrator to snap lines to certain angles for some reason.
It is an amazing tool and the illustrator needed it. finally, they added this new tool, hope it will be very beneficial for making layouts and UI design also.
Thank you for being a consistent voice for designers during the ai boom. Could you do some more content in regards to new tools, tricks, client processes, etc?
Finally, it's possible to do simple 2D technical drawings in the app we already have and know instead of paying tons of money for a CAD! I'm not even talking about the learning curve.
Pretty cool edition, just unfortunate that it's presently not dynamic. Once you've established a dimension you can't automatically edit it after the fact if you want to change the distance. Hopefully they will add that down the road.
Handy tool, but I'm a bit disappointed the label alignments don't have an option to center on the line with a text box background color option, as well. Fun video, though. It made me open Illustrator while watching to play around.
Holy fuck! I’ve been requesting this feature in 1998. I used to use Deneba Canvas to do that stuff, because it was able to do it back then when no other vector app could. There was actually a dimensioning plugin you could buy for Illustrator. Only about 25 years too late, Adobe.
Brilliant. Very useful for prototyping and checking measurement as you go along. I use illustrator along with autocad. As someone else mentioned doing this manually for over 20 years as well.
This was about f time that they implemented it I'm a leatherworker and do my patterns in AI and I'm so glad that the whole workflow got a lot more easier
I can see a problem here. It's measured from point to point - and ignored the width of the stroke. So the measurement is actually wrong when trying to display the actual width of the object. I guess to get a more accurate measurement one could outline the stroke and then go from the point at the edge of that new shape.
Double sided arrow, is what it’s called. You didn’t mention that you can have an option of unit like mm, inches etc, but must set that before, and you can have multiple unit, but have to set it before measuring, and when you measure in inches and then set another one for mm, it won’t change the inches to mm, which is cool, I can send my file to the printer in metric and imperial (inches)..
Hey Dansky, I'm trying to replicate the Dragon Quest logo style on Illustrator but I struggle a little bit. I have to admit I've never be really good at using 3D on AI, nore using Illustrator for text (I'm an illustrator working on a comic book, and this would be for my project. I just want some trick for the perspective, not having the same logotype). But I think replicating the Dragon Quest would be a fun exercise for a video :D Keep going on your channel, I love it, I've learned quite a few things thanks to you !
to downsize and cut hours. now that its in the software itself, no need to pay someone a living wage who used to do this for a living. just let the young Gen Zer intern do it for free in Illustrator, until their previous CANVA copies it and does it as well
Illustrator has been around for nearly 40 years. I am also 40 yrs old. This is like being excited about someone handing me a ruler after 4 decades of not letting me have a ruler.
Sadly I couldn't find a way to change the text =( I mean - in my work I make maal where I get the draws of a product but not in 1:1. So I need the lines - its good, BUT i also want to type another measure. Is there a way to do that? Somehow "type" tool doesnt work.
My immediate reaction was “what an underwhelming tool” and it slowly transitioned into “this should have been a feature since day one” 😭 This tool would take a junior dev an hour to make. But it’s taken them 37 years.
this seems like Adobe might be discovering the advantages of scaling. the sign industry is stuck with CorelDraw (or autocad, solidworks) due to scaling, artboard size and the limitations of PDF 'page size'. instead of gimmicky AI that looks like clip art 1995 beta, perhaps Adobe should embrace industry a bit more on the production side. i've been waiting since Illustrator 5.0 (yes, and on MacOS 8) for this without a plug-in that doesn't carry functionality to installs without the PI for editing.
So how do I get Adobe Illustrator to stop showing those blue popups that say things along the lines of "Do you want to try this other new feature now even though you're in the middle of something else entirely?" Those things make me LIVID.
It looks like it’s only measuring between underlying points… If it can’t measure line thickness (in other words, the actual printed or final visible design), then what good is it? This is supposed to be a tool for DESIGNERS and ILLUSTRATORS.
lol when you raised your hand up to snap your finger at the end of the video I wasn't paying attention and thought you just grabbed and popped your nose like how one pops their knuckles or something. I had to replay it just to make sure that wasn't what happened. now ill never get the mental image of you thanos snapping your nose out of my head haha! XD p.s thanks for showing off the new tool! I don't use adobe but its nice to know what new features they've been making.
Dansky, your videos are great, terrific. But I'm sorry, every time I try getting anything accomplished in Adobe Illustrator, it's a never-ending, ruthless rochambeau session. I choose one layer to work on, it adds another one to the selection just because its edge happened to be nearby. I try to scale proportionally, it ignores the check box. I try to move a scale pivot point, it pretends I didnt. I've worked with some of the roughest, most unforgiving industrial-grade software out there, 3DS Max Biped, characterizing rigs in MotionBuilder, you name it. But AI is by far the most pernicious, palpably hostile software it's ever been my misfortune to have to deal with. In weaker moments I have dark thoughts about how to instigate a mag 9 earthquake under Adobe's headquarters in San Jose, and I'm from a good home. Is there an alternative vector-based graphics package out there that can export .svg format?
I've been doing this manually for about 25years whenever I'd need to draw up plans. Finally, a more efficient method in Illustrator arrives that has existed in other software for decades.
I know, right!? For over 20 years Ive been doing this manually.
Adobe should be mocked for this!
Same here !! Since 1999
@@warcroftgaming they are not mocked, they get paid monthly ransom for this...
25 years a go u had to know program and need to be some good in this know some mathematic. Now u need just good PC and adobe cloud with tutorial get 3500€ for that per month
CadTools hacía eso desde hace más de 10 años y ahora es toda una novedad. Gracias Adobe por hacernos sufrir por eso y por otras cosas más.
Having to work out angles in Illustrator has always been my idea of hell when documenting branding guides. So YAY for bringing in this new feature.
I've been waiting for illustrator to have a tool like this similar to something in AutoCAD. Was literally thinking about this yesterday while doing some drawings. Thanks again ❤
You're welcome 😊
This feature was also available in CorelDRAW for ever.
Finally, from Autocad, it’s here! 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂
This measuring tool was supposed to be on Illustrator many years ago... I remember the days when a lot of people were complaining because they didn't create this simple tool and because of that there were some plugins which cost some money... Even so, Corel Draw had this tool for many many years... Illustrator was used and is still being used not for illustrations only, but for package design also for different vector plan projects etc.. and they decided to put this tool only now... so sad Adobe :)).
Seriously! This tool would have been an absolute boon when I was working at a sign shop a decade ago!
Adobe don't make it just because it will be on the radar of AutoCAD. Companies make inner collaboration. Now autodesk is well established and market is saturated, Adobe release it.
@@rajendrameena150silly argument. If your logic is valid AI won't have had more than half of its tools... Such as circle, line, scale, trim and almost everything else...
More convincing argument: Greed.
@@ytskt bro measurement always hit and hinder the creativity, you will know this if you are architect because we do both site work and design work and we know that in site we have specific measurement to play with design that left only few options but when there are no measurements you can draw anything on blank canvas just taking care of proportion.
@@ytskt Also the circle, rectangle tools are basic for vector work but measurement tool opens a new door apart from designing digital to real world objects and that's Adobe try to avoid generally because it want to limit their user in digital and entertainment space.
Thanks for making this video!! Would love to see a video(s) about using this tool in packaging designs, packaging flat-lays, nets, etc. Thank you!!
I just posted a video that touches on it. I tried to show some practical uses of the new tool
@@nickqtv I'll check it out as well, thanks!
It is great. As I remember, a similar tool is in CorelDraw for 20 years or so.
I'd like improvements in strokes. That I use every day.
Just curious, what improvements would you like in strokes?
@ValdemarDeMatos For instance, to be able to have all options of strokes not just when is aligned on centre, but inside and outside, like in InDesign.
@@ZoranImsiragic you have those options in the stroke panel of Illustrator. Not only that, you even have a stroke dedicated tool to vary the width of the line from dot to dot.
@ValdemarDeMatos Nope. These options are there but not in all combinations. If you want to have the same corners, that is possible only when stroke is aligned on the centre, but not when it is aligned inside or outside. I'm glad that you want to defend Illustrator. I'm a former ACI for Illustrator, and I'm using it daily.
@@ZoranImsiragic I’m not defending Illustrator 😅. I’m just trying to understand what are the things that you are missing because I can’t think of other things that can be done with a stroke apart from what I see there. I’ll check those corner combinations you’re referring to and I’ll certainly learn something new. 🙇
By the way, did CorelDRAW have these options? I’ve used it before, many years ago, and I also don’t remember nothing similar to what you describe.
I’m a graphic design student and we use illustrator literally every day. Subscribing to your channel and watching your videos has definitely helped me. Thanks for sharing the details on this helpful new tool! 😊
You're welcome Keosha, that's so great to hear! 😊
Very Helpful tool. Specially for drawings related explanation for construction, interior models etc.
Tried it out. It's a good start. About 20+ years behind Corel Draw at this point. I think it still has a lot of work to go before people can fully migrate over from being third party plugin-free.
Is corel better?
@Haribollll Corel have a few useful tools but I think Illustrator tools and more intuitive and straightforward...
I’m talking specifically about having a fully fleshed out dimension tool. What they released in this beta feature is more or less about 45% of what you get with the dimension tool that has already been baked into Corel Draw for 20+ years now. Now the argument of which application is better? That’s more a matter of personal preference. I use Corel for my day job, but love all the features and workflow in illustrator.
@@pocketrealitty Think we are in agreement. I haven’t used Corel in years though because my workflow works best with illustrator.
@@Haribollll Corel is better for technical drawing since it's accurate to 10 microns, while Illustrator leaves a lot to be desired for precise snapping and such. I used to use Corel for isometric drawing for tech manuals and those tools were much better than Illy's. It's difficult in Illustrator to snap lines to certain angles for some reason.
It’s about time Adobe, been waiting for years for something like this tool.
Thank you for your insight. But what the tool definitely lacks is the scope for a circle. That would be interesting in many cases
This finally came to Illustrator. Niiice. Was very useful in Corel Draw.
It is an amazing tool and the illustrator needed it. finally, they added this new tool, hope it will be very beneficial for making layouts and UI design also.
Its insane it took Adobe decades to realize people needed this. It will make my job so much easier
Yes, I’ve been requesting it since 1998.
Thank you for being a consistent voice for designers during the ai boom. Could you do some more content in regards to new tools, tricks, client processes, etc?
I'll see what I can do! 👌
Finally, it's possible to do simple 2D technical drawings in the app we already have and know instead of paying tons of money for a CAD! I'm not even talking about the learning curve.
Omg, this is going to be a big help. Especially the angle dimension tool.
Pretty cool edition, just unfortunate that it's presently not dynamic. Once you've established a dimension you can't automatically edit it after the fact if you want to change the distance. Hopefully they will add that down the road.
OH MY GOSH how did I not notice this was now in the app. Thank you. Just last year I even bought an extension specifically for this functionality
You’re welcome! Aha, I think this new Dimension Tool was only just added in December last year 👍
@@ForeverDansky great content in your channel. subscribed
FINALLY! I hope they also add an "Area Measurement Tool" soon...
Can you add the dimension arrows and then change the measurement text to a custom text?
Handy tool, but I'm a bit disappointed the label alignments don't have an option to center on the line with a text box background color option, as well. Fun video, though. It made me open Illustrator while watching to play around.
Dansky, hope to see more steaming soon! I really enjoy them. Cheers!
Awesome! Thank you 😊
Thanks for making this tool simple to understand! Messed it shortly but I am yet to use it seriously...I am sure that day / hour will come.
Is it possible to "fake" the length? Like can i directly overwrite it (ex. 20 px but i want to tell them it's 2px without changing shape/scale)
Finally! Can't believe this took so long
Fantastic! I've waited for this tool forever. This tutorial was so funny as well. You've got me cracking up.
Thank you, straight to the point, funny , educational, and... cute accent.
FINALLY! Those thousands of dimension lines and numbers I've drawn and written manually...
Useful for packaging design proposal 👍🏻👏🏻. Thanks Dan!
You're very welcome! Yes, very useful indeed 👍
I feel like this tool is pretty specific in its uses but still a cool tool to have!
Holy fuck! I’ve been requesting this feature in 1998. I used to use Deneba Canvas to do that stuff, because it was able to do it back then when no other vector app could. There was actually a dimensioning plugin you could buy for Illustrator. Only about 25 years too late, Adobe.
Great! Can you edit the dimension number and the size of the object would be adjusted?
Watched for the information about the new tool Thanks! really helpful, stayed for 1:37 - 2:05 on repeat afterwards
Brilliant. Very useful for prototyping and checking measurement as you go along. I use illustrator along with autocad. As someone else mentioned doing this manually for over 20 years as well.
I think I will love this tool... Thanks for sharing...
Thank you Dansky.
You’re welcome ☺️
Fantastic tool, thanks Dan!
You're welcome! 👊
This was about f time that they implemented it
I'm a leatherworker and do my patterns in AI and I'm so glad that the whole workflow got a lot more easier
This is cool. I use the specify script but this is easier.
1:56 an arc with arrows at each end. xoxo
I can see a problem here. It's measured from point to point - and ignored the width of the stroke. So the measurement is actually wrong when trying to display the actual width of the object. I guess to get a more accurate measurement one could outline the stroke and then go from the point at the edge of that new shape.
I think you'll have to outline stroke first and then measure for that.
And here's where you add the proviso to every drawing that objects may not be precisely to scale. lol
Flamboyant neon pink 2D Onshape with gradients and sparkles.
Double sided arrow, is what it’s called. You didn’t mention that you can have an option of unit like mm, inches etc, but must set that before, and you can have multiple unit, but have to set it before measuring, and when you measure in inches and then set another one for mm, it won’t change the inches to mm, which is cool, I can send my file to the printer in metric and imperial (inches)..
Oh man. I did a project last year where I had to do this manually over and over. It's so beautiful 🥹
WOW and it only took Adobe 25+ years to come up with this one... super impressed!
Now let us use these to easily scale along the specific part of an object. like any CAD software does.
This tool only on Adobe Illustrator CC 2024 or maybe there is a plugin or this tool on versions 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020? Thank you for all.
ooooh my goodness, this is amazing
Hey Dansky, I'm trying to replicate the Dragon Quest logo style on Illustrator but I struggle a little bit.
I have to admit I've never be really good at using 3D on AI, nore using Illustrator for text (I'm an illustrator working on a comic book, and this would be for my project. I just want some trick for the perspective, not having the same logotype). But I think replicating the Dragon Quest would be a fun exercise for a video :D
Keep going on your channel, I love it, I've learned quite a few things thanks to you !
A better solution for Dieline Packaging, Interesting❤
This is impressive, but what's the primary use case for a project?
Designing for packaging, or specs for print-related dimensions, are a couple of examples that come to mind 👍
@@ForeverDanskyI’ll definitely be putting this to use for my upcoming tea packaging mock up project! Thanks 😊
I just made a video showing it for packaging, tech packs and floor plans
to downsize and cut hours. now that its in the software itself, no need to pay someone a living wage who used to do this for a living. just let the young Gen Zer intern do it for free in Illustrator, until their previous CANVA copies it and does it as well
Ok learning illustrator and your videos great the need of this im going to have to learning self taught
Illustrator has been around for nearly 40 years. I am also 40 yrs old. This is like being excited about someone handing me a ruler after 4 decades of not letting me have a ruler.
thank you brother
👊
Badass tool thank you for the demonstration
Does this version has the "right to left typing" or "Left to right typing" option ? Like adobe photoshop.
Sadly I couldn't find a way to change the text =(
I mean - in my work I make maal where I get the draws of a product but not in 1:1. So I need the lines - its good, BUT i also want to type another measure.
Is there a way to do that? Somehow "type" tool doesnt work.
Found it! In "Properties" needed to ckeck "Expand" )
The dimension tool gives you a new layer, there you can edit text.
This is phenomenal!
🙌
Did Indesign have this feature as well?
Corel Draw has had this feature from the beginning.
how to import a new tool into adobe illustartor please
Thanks ❤️ so funny to watch 😅
Glad you enjoyed it 😂😁
I believe what you were looking for was - A line with arrows on both sides or ends.
This tool is sooooo long overdue.
My immediate reaction was “what an underwhelming tool” and it slowly transitioned into “this should have been a feature since day one” 😭
This tool would take a junior dev an hour to make. But it’s taken them 37 years.
It is a Hotdoors cadtools plugin light version no?
that's really helpful
This is developed in response to development in other program like inkscape.
Is there a way to rotate dimension's text in any way? They are always stick in pararel way.
Brilliant video.
Cheers Kai 😘
Thirty years later, finally!😉
Thank you!
You're welcome!
what software do you use to record your screen??
It's called "ScreenFlow" for MacOS! OBS is also good for recording and streaming 👍
Been doing this in CorelDraw from yearsss
So, they actually put the Dynamic Measure Tool from astute graphics into Illustrator and developed until it becomes better than the pluggin
Nice but until we can draw to a scale, it has limited use.
this seems like Adobe might be discovering the advantages of scaling.
the sign industry is stuck with CorelDraw (or autocad, solidworks) due to scaling, artboard size and the limitations of PDF 'page size'. instead of gimmicky AI that looks like clip art 1995 beta, perhaps Adobe should embrace industry a bit more on the production side.
i've been waiting since Illustrator 5.0 (yes, and on MacOS 8) for this without a plug-in that doesn't carry functionality to installs without the PI for editing.
is it in illustrator beta? cant find it
It’s out of beta now! Trying switching to the “Advanced” toolbar on the left, just to check it isn’t buried under another tool 👍
This is Amazing
So how do I get Adobe Illustrator to stop showing those blue popups that say things along the lines of "Do you want to try this other new feature now even though you're in the middle of something else entirely?" Those things make me LIVID.
это офигительно. только недавно рисовал чертеж и выводил все измерения вручную
How can i get this tool in my illustature
Fairly confident coreldraw had the dimension tool over a quarter of a century ago.
How do I get it to show inch symbols? Do not show in
Very useful!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Fantastic! 😊
It looks like it’s only measuring between underlying points… If it can’t measure line thickness (in other words, the actual printed or final visible design), then what good is it? This is supposed to be a tool for DESIGNERS and ILLUSTRATORS.
I'm genuinely surprised that such a trivial tool is new, I had to double check the date the video was posted.
Still happy with the inclusion though
Whats version?
Sorry Dansky I've been traveling in Mumbai for 6 days and wasn't able to attend the design steam 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Cool Tool
😎
A double arrowed line / a line with 2 arrow ends
Unbelievable. They finally offered a tiny fraction of CAD functionality.
Top man Dan.
lol when you raised your hand up to snap your finger at the end of the video I wasn't paying attention and thought you just grabbed and popped your nose like how one pops their knuckles or something. I had to replay it just to make sure that wasn't what happened. now ill never get the mental image of you thanos snapping your nose out of my head haha! XD
p.s thanks for showing off the new tool! I don't use adobe but its nice to know what new features they've been making.
Haha really?! Ok yes, I need to get me a Thanos gauntlet! 😂👌
Adobe should be buy astute graphics plugins years ago and integrate it in illustrator...
+1
If Adobe can buy Astute that would be great!
Which version is it?
Adobe Illustrator 2024 👍
Dansky, your videos are great, terrific. But I'm sorry, every time I try getting anything accomplished in Adobe Illustrator, it's a never-ending, ruthless rochambeau session. I choose one layer to work on, it adds another one to the selection just because its edge happened to be nearby. I try to scale proportionally, it ignores the check box. I try to move a scale pivot point, it pretends I didnt. I've worked with some of the roughest, most unforgiving industrial-grade software out there, 3DS Max Biped, characterizing rigs in MotionBuilder, you name it. But AI is by far the most pernicious, palpably hostile software it's ever been my misfortune to have to deal with. In weaker moments I have dark thoughts about how to instigate a mag 9 earthquake under Adobe's headquarters in San Jose, and I'm from a good home. Is there an alternative vector-based graphics package out there that can export .svg format?
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