I have burnt too much time creating rev clouds for changes required by city/county ordinances requiring annotation of said changes...
Anyone got an "easy button" for what I'm after......? (Yes... I'm a CAD guy who could smoke 99% of my ex cad flunkies using Corel, simply because it's incredibly more intuitive and user friendly than any Autodesk product. \rant You know... A REV CLOUD... Looks like this:
And NO - it doesn't have to have the fancy, Autocad created varying strokes. Creating a line composed of arc segments (of an adjustable length/depth) is the goal here...
ANYONE......? Thanks in advance fellas/ladies. Dave
DaveNicks said: I have burnt too much time creating rev clouds for changes required by city/county ordinances requiring annotation of said changes... Anyone got an "easy button" for what I'm after......? (Yes... I'm a CAD guy who could smoke 99% of my ex cad flunkies using Corel, simply because it's incredibly more intuitive and user friendly than any Autodesk product. \rant You know... A REV CLOUD... Looks like this:
Here's one approach you might try.
Draw the basic boundary. In this case, I'm just using a rectangle, but any closed curve would do.
Create and position some ellipses. Even starting from scratch, this could be pretty quick with judicious use of Ctrl-R, copy-while-moving, space-bar-copy-while-moving, copying and pasting a whole row, rotating a whole row, etc. You could mix up sizes and positions a bit, if you wished, to make it look more organic.
Select all of this - circles and the boundary shape - and then use Boundary. If you do it from the Shaping docker, you have the choice to have it remove the original shapes.
Apply outline properties to suit.
This is one with just one circle size, but with the arrangement done quickly using space-bar-while-dragging-shape to create the copies.The nib shape and rotation for the outline were tweaked to get the "varying strokes" look.