I've looked at two Youtube tutorials and another thread on this forum, and I cannot get the Pattern Along Path LPE to work for me.
I need three evenly spaced circles along a curve.
I used the Measure Segment LPE to discover that my curve is 7.29mm. So I made my circle, with no stroke, 2.43mm in diameter, even though I'll want the circles smaller in the end.
If I copy the circle to the Clipboard and put the LPE on the curve (which is what everyone agreed upon), the first thing that happens is that when I select "Repeated" rather than "Single, Stretched," the curve shortens a bit.
When I select the button to tell it to take the pattern (the circle, which I copied before adding the LPE to the curve) from the Clipboard, I get the image (Curve_with_LPE.png). It's the curve turned into rings, rather than the circle on the curve.
If I try it the other way 'round, nothing happens.
No one seems to use the other settings like "Edit on Canvas", so I'm not sure if the solution lies there. I was unable to do anything with that myself.
I am at an utter loss. It just seems to work in the videos.
I'm using Inkscape for Mac 1.1.1 (c3084ef, 2021-09-22) on a 2017 MacBook running Catalina (macOS 10.15.7).
Well, the problem is that the curve is not actually a segment of a circle.
It's an arc that runs through several petals. The complete arc is shaped like a minaret, but one half is origina (left)l and the other clone. I'm trying to align the spots on the petal. See the picture: it's a graphic I'm tracing.
I increased the arc that is a line to be a guide under the spots. I'm trying to get the spots on the bottom left petal.
Your technique looks great though! I'll stash it away for future reference.
The problem is that I need the line to work from the edge of the circle, not the center. To figure out where to put the endpoint of my curve is going to take some advanced geometry (which I last formally studied nearly four decades ago and haven't used a whole lot since).
It's rather like I need to calculate the positions of the first and last circle in the petal to make this work, when the whole point was to have Inkscape do that.
I'll keep messing with it. At least I am getting circles along the path!
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I've looked at two Youtube tutorials and another thread on this forum, and I cannot get the Pattern Along Path LPE to work for me.
I need three evenly spaced circles along a curve.
I used the Measure Segment LPE to discover that my curve is 7.29mm. So I made my circle, with no stroke, 2.43mm in diameter, even though I'll want the circles smaller in the end.
If I copy the circle to the Clipboard and put the LPE on the curve (which is what everyone agreed upon), the first thing that happens is that when I select "Repeated" rather than "Single, Stretched," the curve shortens a bit.
When I select the button to tell it to take the pattern (the circle, which I copied before adding the LPE to the curve) from the Clipboard, I get the image (Curve_with_LPE.png). It's the curve turned into rings, rather than the circle on the curve.
If I try it the other way 'round, nothing happens.
No one seems to use the other settings like "Edit on Canvas", so I'm not sure if the solution lies there. I was unable to do anything with that myself.
I am at an utter loss. It just seems to work in the videos.
I'm using Inkscape for Mac 1.1.1 (c3084ef, 2021-09-22) on a 2017 MacBook running Catalina (macOS 10.15.7).
Anyone have a solution?
Thank you!
Maybe this:
Well, the problem is that the curve is not actually a segment of a circle.
It's an arc that runs through several petals. The complete arc is shaped like a minaret, but one half is origina (left)l and the other clone. I'm trying to align the spots on the petal. See the picture: it's a graphic I'm tracing.
I increased the arc that is a line to be a guide under the spots. I'm trying to get the spots on the bottom left petal.
Your technique looks great though! I'll stash it away for future reference.
Thanks!
I'd try the scatter extension:
Well . . . I am having a little trouble.
The problem is that I need the line to work from the edge of the circle, not the center. To figure out where to put the endpoint of my curve is going to take some advanced geometry (which I last formally studied nearly four decades ago and haven't used a whole lot since).
It's rather like I need to calculate the positions of the first and last circle in the petal to make this work, when the whole point was to have Inkscape do that.
I'll keep messing with it. At least I am getting circles along the path!
Thank you!
Got it!
I got Pattern Along Path working. As usual, I was missing the painfully obvious: I didn't have the circle over the curve in the layer.
Thanks for the help, Tyler! I'm sorry to keep pestering you with my foolishness.