Step 3: Create shapes

Create the objects to cut and decide on their sizes and locations.
This section explains the procedure for creating the design shown below.

1. Click .
   
   
2. Hold down the [Shift] key and drag the mouse.
   A regular pentagon whose vertical/horizontal aspect ratio is 1:1 is drawn.
   
   
   
3. With the regular pentagon selected, click .
   The [Size and Shape] panel opens.
   
   
4. Drag the [Object] slider to the left to create a triangle.
   
   
   The regular pentagon changes into an equilateral triangle.
   
   
   
5. With the triangle selected, click , and then click .
   A single copy of the triangle is made.
   
   
6. Click .
   
   
7. Hold down the [Shift] key and drag a shape handle () to make the triangle a little larger than the original triangle.
   
   
   
8. Drag the triangle to place it at the location shown in the figure.
   
   
   
9. With the large triangle selected, go to the [Object] menu and click [Convert to Polyline].
   Now you can edit the vertices of the triangle.
   
   
10. Click .
    The triangle's vertices (anchor points) appear.
    
    
11. Double-click a line to add an anchor point.
    Add two anchor points at the locations shown in the figure.
    
    
    
12. Click a vertex to select it, go to the [Object] menu and click [Anchor Point], and then click [Make Curve Polyline].
    A curve-polyline handle is added.
    
    
    
13. Drag the anchor point, which you made into a curve polyline, to move it.
    Drag the curve-polyline handle to make the corner round, as shown in the figure.
    
    
    
14. Make the other two corners round in the same way.
    
    

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