: How to quickly create many arrowheads on a path using illustrator? My question is simple. How to quickly create many arrowheads on a path using Adobe Illustrator? like this

@Murray976

The easiest method I know is via a Pattern Brush in Adobe Illustrator.

Draw a path with a stroke and add an arrowhead:



Select the path and drag it to the Brushes Panel.

When Asked, tick the Pattern Brush option and then click OK twice to get out of the brush dialog.



You now have an arrowhead brush. If you wan the last segment to not have an arrowhead as in your sample.....

Remove the arrowhead from your original path:



Hold down the Option/Alt key and drag the path to the Brush Panel but Hover over the last square for your existing brush.



You'll see the square highlight, when you do let go.

Then click OK to get out of the brush dialog again. This will remove the arrowhead from the last brush segment.



Now, just draw a path, any path, and then with that path selected, click the brush you just created:



If you need arrowheads at sharp corners -- and you are using Illustrator CC or newer -- it's easy to configure corners. Double-click the brush in the Brush Panel to open the brush options window.

For the corners click the little box and choose Auto-Between. Do this for both the corner squares. This will allow the brush to appear correct at sharp corners.





(Note the corner options are only available in Illustrator CC+. Corners in older versions have to be manually configured and can be quite difficult at times so I'm not going into that.)


These are overall basic steps to pattern brush creation in Adobe Illustrator and will work for many cases when you want a repeated element along a path. The HELP FILES for Illustrator may be useful if you are unfamiliar with pattern brushes.

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