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3. Click the mode button in the Tools panel and choose the Smooth option.
The Pencil tool offers three possible modes:
• Straighten mode favors straight lines and corner points.
• Smooth mode favors curves and smooth anchor points in the
resulting paths. This option allows greater tolerance for slightly jerky movement
as you drag, which can be very useful if you are using a mouse instead of a
drawing tablet.
• Ink mode closely follows the path that you draw, placing a large number of
anchor points to capture very small movements of the cursor; this mode often
results in a very jagged path, especially if you are using a mouse instead of a
drawing tablet.

4. Click and drag to create one of the inset shapes on the wheel.
Make sure you overlap the line ends with the second circle, as shown in
the following image.
When you release the mouse button, the Smooth mode should result in a fairly rounded
inset shape.

When you release the
Click and drag to mouse button, the
draw this shape. path smoothes out.

5. Choose the Free Transform tool, then click the new shape to reveal its
transformation handles.

6. Click the transformation point and drag to the intersection of the two ruler
guides.

You are going to copy and rotate this object around the wheel’s center point to create the
six inset shapes. The ruler guides that you placed mark the center of the wheel, which
you used when you Option/Alt dragged from the guide intersection to create the circles.
To rotate the inset shape around the same center, you are now moving the first shape’s
transformation point to the same center point as the overall wheel shape.

The Free Transform
tool is selected. Drag the transformation
point from the center of
the shape to the inter-
section of the guides.

7. With the object selected, choose Edit>Copy.

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