Re: [artworks] Connecting mirrored objects
- From: Richard Ashbery <a-graphics@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ArtWorks <artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:19:06 +0000 (GMT)
In article <4ebacc04a0asg@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Burt <asg@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> In article <4ebab2fceaa-graphics@xxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Ashbery
> <a-graphics@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > To get balance when creating an object outline I trace only one
> > half, clone it and mirror it. Is there a simple way of joining
> > the 2 halves together to enable the new object to be coloured.
> > Please refer to zipped artworks file for a graphic explanation of
> > the problem:
> Hi, your Fig 2 turn grid lock off, hilight one line, click on &
> move the node away a bit, then click with adjust on the other line,
> then drag with select the original node you moved, over the top of
> the end node on second line until it turns blue, release and it is
> joined, repeat with other end of your shape. Took 10 tens longer to
> write this than doing the job..
Thats what I do but the very fact that you have to move the node away
a bit reduces accuracy.
For most work I always do this on a very high magnification so a small
movement like this is really of no consequence.
Thanks for your comments.
Regards
Richard
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