Hiya folks,
I wasn't sure which forum to put this in. I use X4 so I decided to just throw it in this forum lol.
I am not too familiar with making brushes in Corel, so hence my question. I am trying to figure out exactly how to make a brush (I think it would need to be a brush lol) of a bicycle chain so that I can create a bicycle chain in a circle shape.
Ideally, I'd like to use the brush to make other shapes with as well, but for right now, I need a bicycle chain to be a circle and it's driving me mad on how to create one so that everything lines up and looks correct.
I've also tried a blend, but for some reason, I cant get that to look right either.
Thanks for any help.
First, draw a link of the chain. Then, open the Artsitic Media Docker (under Window menu / dockers) and drag your link to the docker. That's will add it as new preset.
Then, draw a circle, and choose your link (double click on the Artsitic Media Docker thumbnail or drag over the circle)
Create the bicycle chain link, horizontally oriented. Open the Artistic Media docker. With your link selected, click on the save button at the bottom of the docker. Choose Object Sprayer, name and save. Change the rotation to "Relative to path" and play with the spacing so that it overlaps as you want. You can re-save it with the same name so it will keep the new settings.
Here's one I did:
Patti
<inkmachine> wrote in message news:76465@coreldraw.com... Ideally, I'd like to use the brush to make other shapes with as well, but for right now, I need a bicycle chain to be a circle and it's driving me mad on how to create one so that everything lines up and looks correct.
Thats what I needed to know! lol Thanks everyone for your help :)
This worked perfectly
I am a little late, Here is one I did. It is a little different approach.. I drew the circle first on an 8 x 8 page so I could use a center ref, then created some ref lines at 5° for the main link pin centers and 2.5° for the connecting links on a lower layer.. Used the Transform Rotate 10 ° from the page center to fill in the rest of the main links. Similar on the connecting links. You should be able to see how in the attached CDR