Reinhard, Create an oval (or other shape).
Use Smart Duplicate and pull out your line with the ovals overlapping.
Add Shapes (Ctrl+1).
With the Shape Tool, select all nodes and pick Smooth Join...
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Re: even stroke shapes, regardless of the length of the lines?
Reinhard, Create an oval (or other shape).
Use Smart Duplicate and pull out your line with the ovals overlapping.
Add Shapes (Ctrl+1).
With the Shape Tool, select all nodes and pick Smooth Join...
Re: even stroke shapes, regardless of the length of the lines?
Reinhard, you can in XDPX.
You would create an oval, form a Scatter Brush and adjust the overlap.
This seems to always produce whole shapes along the line.
You would need to abut the end shapes...