Properties of Line Segment Tool in Adobe Illustrator

Fill

As a Line Segment is just an straight line and doesn't include any curved area inside it, it has no Fill.

Stroke

Lines do have a stroke. Let's increase the Stroke to 20 points. Shown in next slide.

Stroke Panel

Click on the Stroke to open Stroke panel or you can open it from Window menu. Stroke Panel has various options including Weight, Cap, Corner, Align Stroke, Dashed Line, Arrowheads and Profile etc. These are discussed one by one in coming slides.

Cap

There are 3 types of Cap for Line Segments.

1. Butt Cap

2. Round Cap

3. Projecting Cap

Dashed Line

Dashed Line is used to create, obviously Dashes in the Stroke of the line. In the Dash option, we can define the length of Dash as well as the length of Gap.  In doing so, we can create a pattern of 3 different lengths of Dash and Gap.

Arrowheads

There are 2 Arrowheads, one for Start Point and the other for End Point. Start Point is the point from where we start creating our line. End Point is the end where we finish creating our line.

Start point & End point

Scale

Scale option control the size of Arrowheads in the line.

Align

Align options aligns the Arrowhead before or after the anchor points.

Profile

Width Profile of the Line Segment is the variable profile for width of stroke. Various width profiles available are shown below.