: How can I add shapes to anchor points in illustrator? I'm trying to make a connected dots background quite similar to this. What I'm doing is using the pen tool to make triangles and then

@Connie430

I have found an imperfect way to do this, it has some problems but it is a start.

I use the properties of the Dashed Stroke :


Weight determines the radius of the dots
Cap and Corner are both set to rounded
The buttons to the right of Dashed Line allow the dashes to be aligned to the corers.
Setting the dash length to 0.1pt makes a dash with rounded ends into a nearly-perfect circle
If the gap length is set to an amount that is longer than any of the line segments, the dashes will only appear on the corners (Because we set them to align with corners)




Then we have a stroke that looks like this:


I use the Appearance panel to add a new stroke - and change the settings on the new stroke back to your standard settings you were using before.



to achieve a stroke that looks like this:


If this Appearance is applied to your matrix of triangles (I used a Graphic Style) it should add dots to all of the corners. You can see some imperfections in my example, but perhaps with some fine tuning they could be minimized.

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