Is there a way to make dashes with round caps real discs instead of ovals?
When creating a form/line and activating non-line-ish dashes, they are perfectly square (see picture, first line). When changing to rounded caps, they get ovals (second line). What I need are perfectly round discs (third line). For the picture I converted the round-caps-dashed line into a vector and moved one half of each of the dashes' nodes towards the other end to get the discs. This is not that much of a problem for short lines like this, but it's not applicable for more complex forms with a big number of dashes.
I remembered pattern along path and got the same problems at corners. My workaround was manually placed discs to cover up the distorted ones in the corners.
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Is there a way to make dashes with round caps real discs instead of ovals?
When creating a form/line and activating non-line-ish dashes, they are perfectly square (see picture, first line). When changing to rounded caps, they get ovals (second line). What I need are perfectly round discs (third line). For the picture I converted the round-caps-dashed line into a vector and moved one half of each of the dashes' nodes towards the other end to get the discs. This is not that much of a problem for short lines like this, but it's not applicable for more complex forms with a big number of dashes.
As far as I know you can do this just via XML edit: Where it reads as "Stroke-dasharray:1,2;" change it to "Stroke-dasharray:0,2;" :
I'd use Pattern along Path (path effect).
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects-PatternAlongPath.html
I would have recommend it if it were somehow predictable:
Oh, thanks, I will try the xml edit.
I remembered pattern along path and got the same problems at corners. My workaround was manually placed discs to cover up the distorted ones in the corners.