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Beginners' Questions How to create larger curve above smaller?
  1. #1
    Atak_Snajpera Atak_Snajpera @Atak_Snajpera

    I'm trying to add an extra red curve above grey one. I would like to avoid manual scaling. Is there an automatic option for this kind of task.
    https://i.postimg.cc/FHMWLZk0/Untitled-18.png

  2. #2
    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden
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    No one-button solution, but maybe this:

  3. #3
    Atak_Snajpera Atak_Snajpera @Atak_Snajpera

    Thank you. I also used this method in the end. I just wanted to ask if maybe there is another way.

  4. #4
    COD COD @COD
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    Another Tyler Tip I will have to bookmark! 😁

  5. #5
    David248 David248 @David248
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    Another way, that remains editable : 

  6. #6
    David248 David248 @David248
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    The advantage of this method is that you can : 

    1. Make rainbow like things, by duplicating the path with path effect and setting new offset values and changing stroke color.
    2. Make the process and little bit more automatic : let's say you want to add the same visual aspect to another path
    • select and copy this other path
    • duplicate path with LPE, and relink CloneOriginal LPE
  7. #7
    COD COD @COD

    David - 

    Slowly figuring out that using clones are a very valuable tech. Like in this example, trying to distribute 60 "click marks" around a circle. Didn't know what size to make the click marks. Using clones allowed me to manipulate the master to get the size I wanted to fit the circle. 

    If I remember, I did the same thing creating a fill pattern. I didn't know the final size I wanted. Created the master. Cloned it. Converted the clone to a pattern fill. Then manipulated the master to get exactly what I wanted. 

    Using Clones For Circular Distribution
  8. #8
    David248 David248 @David248

    Yes, I learned from Imppao (take a look at his YT channel I you don't know, it's a must see) the powerful use of clones to modify patterns, but also markers.

    I'm not that used to Clone_original LPE, but it seems a more versatile tool than regular clones, and a promising tool. It allows you to choose which attributes you wanna clone. 

  9. #9
    COD COD @COD

    Yeah - I forgot about markers! 
    https://www.youtube.com/@imppaofree  ?

    I sort discovered the power of clones last year when trying to create new celtic key patterns. My old method was simply impossible.

     

    Screenshot 2025 06 10 161626
  10. #10
    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD
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    @David248: Great minds think alike...  https://inkscape.org/forums/wip/complex-paths/#c34103
    (...but fools seldom differ.)

  11. #11
    David248 David248 @David248
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    COD

    https://www.youtube.com/@imppaofree 

    Exactly. 

    I'd turn on subtitles and set translation to english in parameters. It's not perfect but generally once you spot the recurrent translation errors, you understand well.

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