setting space for vector lines

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setting space for vector lines

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Hello, I have tried to find an answer but cannot! I am making a sign and it will have equally spaced lines to mimic single boards glued together. I drew the lines with the draw line/polyline tool but can't figure out how to make them evenly spaced at 4.4 in a piece. The sign is 22x43 so I want 5 lines at 4.4 in apart across the workpiece. Any help would be appreciated.

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Under Offset and Layout on the Drawing tab look at Array Copy.

http://support.vectric.com/tutorials/V9 ... ideo_id=39
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Thanks, that did it! You seem to be pretty knowledgeable on Vcarve, is there a free draw option where you can actually draw a vector line like in AI?

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Not really, have you tried the draw curve tool? If you take small steps it can get you close then node edit from there.
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Depends what you mean by drawing a vector line I guess. You can draw lines with the polyline tool (similar to the AI pen tool) and curves with the draw curve tool.

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I'm talking like using your mouse or a pen tablet to actually draw a line in the program

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Drawing programs like ai have a more advanced set of drawing tools but for something like this they wouldn't really do you any good, even with a dedicated drawing program you would probably draw one line & then array it :lol: :lol: That is what I would do with the software I use for vector design which has more drawing options,
If your talking about a freehand drawing option then that wouldn't help, almost impossible to draw a perfectly straight line freehand, Well it is for me with the software I use for signmaking & I've been using that for over 15 years so you would have thought I would have mastered it by now :lol: :lol: :lol:

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