How to Make a Dashed Line in Illustrator

I created this in Adobe Illustrator 2022 version 26.4.1. There’s also a short video for this tutorial.

Select the Line Segment Tool from the toolbar. It’ll be the first one in the dropdown list – above the Arc, Spiral, Rectangular Grid and the Polar Grid Tool.

I’ve selected no fill, black for stroke and 1pt for stroke weight.

Select Fill and Stroke and Stroke Weight in Illustrator

Then I opened the Stroke panel by clicking on Stroke and there, I checked the box next to Dashed Line and entered 2pt in the first dash field. You can enter other values and also enter a gap value to get different results.

I then dragged out a line on the art board while holding down shift to draw the dashed line.