Wavy line

[Noel Williams]

Is there an easy way to create a regular (sinusoidal) wavy line in Xara?

(... as described in http://www.seqair.com/WildTools/Wavy/Wavy.html)

[WolfMoonHP]

I may not know how to do this, but I'll bet there are people here who do. I almost had a heart attack when I looked at the price of the Wild Tools software...$249 for the stripped-down version, $1,205 for the full version.

Considering the skills of the people in this forum, it would be hard to predict who the first one with the correct answer will be, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a tutorial posted on this subject very soon .

I'd like to know how to do this myself, so I'll keep watching this thread!

Good luck...
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Will

[WolfMoonHP]

Noel...

I'm just a beginner at Xtreme, but I actually figured out how to create a sinusoidal wave: I dragged down two parallel guide lines from the rulers, then dragged a series of vertical lines at the spacing I chose.

Next, I used the Shape Editor Tool and clicked on "Curve" on the tool bar.

Then I clicked at the bottom beginning point, the top point, bottom, top...

The tool automatically generated the curve.

And, since it is a vector object, you can modify the frequency and amplitude easily!
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Will

[pauland]

How's this:

[Noel Williams]

Wolfmoon and Pauland - very many thanks - just what I was after.

Is it possible to combine this with a new brush design?

[Egg Bramhill]

Noel,

Like most things Xara there's more than one way to skin a cat.

1: Utilities/Options/Grid & Ruler
2: Set the Grid major spacing to 50 pix and subdivisions to 1
3: Window/Show Grid & Window/Snap to Grid
4: Select the Shape Editor tool and set the type to Curve & join to Smooth
5: Just click away near the grid and instant sinusoidal curve

You should delete the first and last points as these aren't sinusoidal.

[pauland]

Nice job Egg. Doh!

[remi]

Another solution:
Create a brush (together with some fine tuning at the brush spacing settings).

The attached drawing isn't a sinusoidal wave, but another example of the Wavy Line Tool from the link above.

Regards,
Remi

[WolfMoonHP]

Noel...

Once you create the line, you can use any brush you want for it. Just click on the brush tool. Here is a version using the rope brush from a tutorial in the Workbooks.

[WolfMoonHP]

Egg...As always, your explanations are clear, easy to follow and highly informative. I actually subscribed to YouTube just because of your videos!

Remi...Your brush is WAY cool. I've been trying to think of a way to create a good Greek key pattern, and you have already done so.

I've actually worked my through all the tutorials in the workbooks, and learned a lot from them, but the things I am learning in these forums are the icing on a very good cake!

Thanks, all...
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Will