How To Make A Dotted Line In Illustrator CC 2021

As an Illustrator user you may occasionally have the need to create dotted lines, whether it be for sketches, key line grids for logos, or whatever other reason. Making a dotted line in Illustrator is simply a matter of drawing a stroke and changing the stroke properties to dashed, but there's other properties you'll need to pay attention to if you'd like to adjust your dotted lines further.

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[trifillmore]

I shouldn't be surprised, once again a Nick tutorial had the answer.

[Ferrum_Anima]

Your tutorials are a cut above, Nick! Really good simplicity and always detailed and easy to follow.

[chomsky]

Love the tuts. Short and to the point.

[Woodgal]

Really enjoyed your tutorial Nick! Looking forward to looking through more of your videos and learning more from you. I'm somewhat new to Illustrator, so you helped me out on creating this dotted line. Thanks so much!

[Brian-qeys]

Really appreciated the clear and concise manner in which you showed me EXACTLY how.
Thank you!

[ewolfgirl]

Perfect! Just what I needed. Watched some other dotted line tutorials which seemed so convoluted. 😉

[dougms]

This didn't really get into what I was looking for, but you DID mention using the pen tool. This got me on track to discover that you can use the CURVE PEN TOOL to draw a curved line that can then be turned into a dotted dash line. So thanks for getting me on track!!!

[talkingtiger]

thank you that was amazingly presented

[chrisathan]

great help ! I had totally forgotten about the gap, and I was stuck ! Thank you so much !

[animarvel]

Thank you so much. exactly what I needed.

[sjmillercreates]

Best explanation for making dots...I was missing the round the cap! Thx.💕

[JetBizzle]

Thanks! This really helped me out today 😎

[fabcraftsandmore]

Is there a way to apply this to text? I want to convert some text to dots that I could then use to make a stencil. Thanks!

[farhathussain]

nice tutortial, but im seeing a thin line connecting the dots, how to remove that??

[ShopTherapy]

How do you turn letters into a single line, and then dot that line (for creating worksheets for kids to trace letters)? Haven't found a great way to do this....

[ricardoschmidt]

Thank you, it helped me a lot!
And what if I want to make the dots grow exponentially from the first to the last (fist dot small, last dot big)?

[kandangas_sv]

Thank for the tutorial, I'm having issues when I tried to expand the dotted line to an outline path.

[AzraKaya-roim]

Master, the line tool seems passive for me, how can I activate it?

[khanghaffar]

If I want to make a multi colour doted design how make

[nanpei]

For years I didnt understand how to properly use the dotted line