Duplicating Transformations in Illustrator

An explanation of how to transform an object and make multiple copies of the transformed object.

by Sandee Cohen

Rating: 4.83 out of 5 (6 votes)

Posted: Feb 08, 2008

Question: I've been a life-long, 17-year user of FreeHand and this is just killing me. In FreeHand I could "Cmd-C" an object to move it then "Cmd-D" would repeat that to create simple patterns. How do I do that in Illustrator? I tried "Cmd D" but it just moves the same shape. It doesn't create new ones?