hello!

is there a way to create this technical drawing effect?



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

thanks!

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.

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

edit: wrong link, damn you ctrl+c

I think you might be able to get close to this effect if you used the 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!

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.

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

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