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I drew this.
Went through quite a process and wondered if there was an easier or a different way.
And as there are so many clever member here, I thought I would ask everyone how they would go about making this.
So, how would you draw this shape, and keep things accurate?
Hi Rik,
for a typographer easy. I took the Powerline Font from Bitstream and converted it to shapes. Then connect the ends an increase the line thicknes. That all.
Rik - Is this your design? If so it is really excellent.
Attached is my method. The small squares and rectangles are for spacing and I placed guidelines in the center of the squares.
The arcs are half circles and connect to lines.
I set the setting in the Line Gallery to Butt Cap and Miter Join.
Increased the line width until it matched your image, 28px.
It was a lot easier for me because I used your design as a template and recreated the shape.
@Ernie - You are too quick. :)
Hi Rik, here's my version. I started with a D 200px Open Sans Extra Bold and made 2 smaller ones, added glow shadow to the 2 smaller D's, hide some of the white lines and added some white squares
Ciao
Roly
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A one step blend of two simple lines.
siran - Brilliant!
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I wouldn't thought of this by any stretch.
I used spacers and half circles, like Gary did.
By drawing rectangles for the straight parts, and using one circle to cut out the correct size from another circle. Then I thought that this was maybe getting a bit too complicated.
However, if I wanted to keep the spacing correct, and keep the angles of the curvature of the semi circular parts correct, then I felt that this method would give me the greatest accuracy.
I like the blending solutions, but, how do you draw the two shapes accurately, in the first place, siran?
Also, when I remove the blend from the attached file, and re-apply the blend in my XDP11, then it doesn't blend properly.
Gary: This was something I'd seen some time ago. And wanted to see if I could draw it. Because it looked a bit challenging to me!
It was a gold coloured one.
Well siran certainly takes the prize.
Rik, just drew the line to match the outer D,
cloned and resized it for the inner D and did some adjustment to better match the original shape,
applied the blend
and then adjusted some nodes of the inner D so that the edges aligned.
You need to activate the '1 to 1 node mapping' button. Just tried in V11.
Great solution Siran
Ciao
Roly
Nice work Rik, and great to see other forum members solutions.
Here's the basic steps of how I went about it (probably rather long-windedly!)
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Excellent.
Nifty!Quote:
Originally Posted by siran
Awesome solution Jonopen. Wish I'd thought of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonopen