the only way I know to do that in xara is to do it the way gary suggested
you might be able to do it in a program that allowed you to define your own stroke shapes but that program is not xara...
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Based on Gary's method: Set some guides and, using the Freehand and Brush Tool, try to draw a straight line. In the Select an Existing Brush dropdown window, chose a marker or chalk brush and adjust the line width to your liking. With the Freehand Smoothing slider try to approximate the line you have in mind. Further adjustments can be made with the Shape Tool.
Perhaps this 10-years old TG-thread gives you some other ideas: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ook-hand-drawn.
Or else buy some vector file: https://www.shutterstock.com/search/...-straight-line
hey, nice find on the ten year old thread boy, happy days
as that thread sorta demonstrates, a hand drawn line almost by definition does not have parallel sides unless you use something like an isograph on bristol, in which case i would not call it 'rough'; sketch maybe, rough no
if there really must be parallel sides I still don't see a better way of doing it than gary's; I'd avoid scatter brushes which are dabs, sooner or later the overlaps will be visible; similarly art brushes with stretch...
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To keep a constant width for a Shape, I would use the Erase Tool, walking along the edge very steadily.
I would use a nib size of double the Line width.
Remember Erase can be additive with Shift+Drag.
When done you can use the Shape Tool, delete control points and also apply smoothing.
For a Line use the smallest Nib, Shift+Drag over the Line and then set this resultant Shape to have no Line width.
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Or use Acorns method but draw several wavy lines and create an art brush:
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