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Spiral
The Spiral Tool is one of the special class of tools that create Live Shapes. With the Spiral tool, shapes of
spiral arcs can be drawn.
How to use
Call the Spiral Tool with its icon on the Toolbox or by pressing F9 or I.
The spiral drawn with the tool has two handles, one on either end of the shape's path. Clicking and dragging
the inner-most handle with the spiral tool will change the interior radius of the arc, and the handle on the
outter-most end of the path edits the number of turns of the spiral.
There are four options in the Tool Controls bar which can be used to further manipulate the spiral:
• Turns adjusts the number of rotations the spiral takes around its center. Increasing the turns will
decrease the width between successive spiral paths, since this option does not increase the dimensions
of the spiral.
• Divergence tightens the spiral either toward its center (as if it were being wound tighter) or toward
the exterior. When the divergence is increased above 1, it makes the outer part of the spiral looser, or
widens the gap between its outermost paths. The reverse is true for values below 1.
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