Drawing spirals The Spiral tool draws a smooth, spiraling curve. You can set the number of spiral turns before or after you draw a spiral object. 1 Select the Spiral tool in the Object tools toolbar. 2 Drag diagonally to specify the size of the spiral curve. To cre- ate a circular spiral, press Shift and drag. To configure the Spiral tool Double-click the Spiral tool to open the Spiral dialog box. Set the number of spirals and click OK. To change the number of spirals in an object:  Double-click the object to open the Spiral dialog box. Change the number of spi- rals and click OK. Drawing grids The GridMaker tool draws grids of rows and columns. You can set the number of rows and columns before or after you draw a grid object. 1 Select the GridMaker tool in the toolbox. 2 Drag diagonally to define the grid’s bounding box. To create a square grid, press Shift and drag. To configure the GridMaker tool Double-click the GridMaker tool to open the GridMaker dialog box. Set the number of boxes comprising the grid and click OK. Spiral tool Set the number of turns (maximum 35) in the spiral GridMaker tool Set the number of columns Set the number of rows
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