Hello Everybody,
I'm using Adobe Illustrator to design patterns and I want to draw stitching lines with slanted dashes. Do you guys know how can I do that?
Hoping to find an experienced leather crafter and Illustrator crafter!
Cheers,
Bruno
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i have tried for a long time to try to create a slanted line to follow a curve or a straight line, but this is the best i got, creating a pattern brush, although it distorts as soon as it gets onto a curve.
although it does seem to be quite accurate. now i just create a dashed stroke, 0 dash and the space is the gap between prongs, so 3.38 gap for 8spi prongs.
the good thing with this is, as i stretch a line out, i can see where the spacing will end. if you want to put it onto a a long path with curves etc, make sure it is on the preserves gaps, otherwise it shrinks the spacing to fit the line.
this is just the tcard section for a wallet, but you can see the cards are between the stitches and all stitches end in the corners - at least they do on here. the 9.583 gap is what 3.38mm is in points.
Hey @Angelo thank you very much for your reply. It is not the most desirable method, but I will try to survive with that. I think this is good because you can easily control the shape, the size and the distance between holes.
Cheers!
Bruno
Although you can achieve it by creating a brush, I think the true way to simulate the behavior of the pricking iron is to create a straight line - as long as you need it - and then move and position around your pattern. The brush might get weird in corners etc due to AI trying to interpret the best solution.
Anyway, hope this helps:
From what I know when I was studying footwear is select the line tool in the tool bar, then click on the screen and a box should pop up with options which allow you to select the line length + the angle of the line - (this would be a line in a circle) and you just move the line around the circle until the desired angle is achieved. Then you just clone the line and place it around the pattern (It might be a lengthy process but it can be done). But remember if you clone the line and have two, you can clone them and have 4 then 8 then 16 and so on, which makes it quicker.
Another useful tool to know is the (stroke) tool. This allows your lines to be thin or thick, as well you can create dotted lines.. However I am not sure if they can be turned into slanted lines. But you could play around with that see if it happens.
It's a start but see what happens.
All the best,
Vin