For equilateral triangle drawing, polygon tool is selected and left click is made on the artboard. It is required to give the number of edges 3 in the opened options window.

A rectangle tool is used for the right triangle. A rectangle is drawn and a corner of the rectangle is selected with the direct selection tool (shortcut A) and erased by the Del key on the keyboard. CTRL + J is used to join an open path to form a right triangle.

Let’s see how the scalene triangle is drawn in detail. (These steps are not shown in the video)

How to draw scalene triangle in illustrator ?

Step 1:

Click on the artboard by selecting the Line segment tool. In the window that opens, set the angle value to 0 (zero degrees.

Step 2

Click the left corner of the line on the artboard. Create a new line by giving the angle value 45 degrees.

Step 3

Click the right corner of the line and set the angle value to 110 degrees.

Step 4

Get the join tool on the toolbar. Select your lines with CTRL + A. Join the open ends by holding down the left mouse button.

Step 5

While lines are selected, hit CTRL + J keys to close other open ends. That is it.

For other triangle, types watch the video below.

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