technical drawing effect

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technical drawing effect

Postby user » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:53 am

hello!

is there a way to create this technical drawing effect?

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I want to make a medical symbol (cross or caduceus or dna or something) with that effect

thanks!

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Re: technical drawing effect

Postby brynn » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:55 am

I don't know a way to do it automatically. You'd just have to sketch it out. There is an LPE called Hatches, which can automatically (sort of) create hatchmarks. But hatches are only part of the image.

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Re: technical drawing effect

Postby nesDk » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:24 am

it would be interesting to play with a gradient thats could do that kind of thing though.

i'm guessing your not the one behind the picture 8-)

edit: wrong link, damn you ctrl+c

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Re: technical drawing effect

Postby druban » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:41 am

I think you might be able to get close to this effect if you used the pencil :tool_pencil: with a 75% opacity black stroke, the smoothing set quite high to avoid too many nodes, and maybe choose the 'ellipse' or 'triangle in' shape. It will definitely help if you have a template that you are drawing on top of, and a stylus/tablet as well!
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Re: technical drawing effect

Postby ~suv » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:46 pm

brynn wrote:I don't know a way to do it automatically. You'd just have to sketch it out. There is an LPE called Hatches, which can automatically (sort of) create hatchmarks. But hatches are only part of the image.
There's also an LPE called 'Sketch' which might be used for the stroked edges.

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Re: technical drawing effect

Postby brynn » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:52 am

There's also an LPE called 'Sketch' which might be used for the stroked edges.

Oh, look at that! Well call me corrected :D
You probably can do something like that with that path effect, but I suspect it will still not be a quick thing.


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