How to measure length of paths in Illustrator (part 2)

[Nyaniko]

I tried advise that ichybug gave me. I made a pattern brush that looks like a ruler, used text numbers and converted them to outlines and made a pattern brush.

No matter how I make the options for the pattern brush, the ruler always gets stretched or scewed so the measurement isn't accurate. I tried "scatter brush" and that is most accurate so far, but doesn't rotate arround curves and stuff. "Add space to fit" fixes this but then leaves spaces that are hard to calculate.

My question is: Is there a way to make the brush so it rotates around curves, doesn't leave spaces, and doesn't scale the brush?

Thanks for you time and Efforts!
-Nyaniko

 

[itchybug]

Nyaniko:

First of all, no need to start a new thread for a continuation of this topic.

You need to make the segments sufficiently short for them to be most accurate. Decide what is the tolerance you can accept, then make the segment shorter than that. You can either set "stretch to fit" or "add space". This way, in the end you'll have to count and because the segment is smaller than your tolerance, you'll end up within that margin.

Bert


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[Nyaniko]

Good. Yea, I've been playing around and actually it seems like creating a scatter brush with a smaller tolerance is the most accurate.