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stroke dash

Use stroke dash to divide a line into segments of varying widths.

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
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Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Input

I

Feature

Item

The input data

Transform

T

Object

Item

Transform controls (overridden by individual parameters)

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Strokes

S

Object

List

The strokes output

Dashes

D

Object

List

The dashes output

How to:

  1. Select ‘stroke dash’ and Add the stroke dash transform

  2. Click “edit defaults” to set the starting values

  3. Edit the settings and outputs in or Properties

Stroke Dash Settings

The stroke dash transform automatically adds all of the necessary properties to the properties palette.

  • Set the spacing (length) of each dash

  • Add more “Spacing’ settings to have varying lengths

  • Set offset start

  • Set corner gap

Stroke dash Outputs

  • Provides 2 outputs; stroke and dash

    • S[] - the strokes

    • D[] - the dashes

  • Allows you to perform different operations on the stroke and dash outputs

  • Stoke/dash will always generate a pattern of stroke-dash-stroke-dash.

  • The pattern will always repeat in order

  • The first spacing value is always the ‘stroke” output.

  • If there is no second spacing value, the dash output will be the same

  • If a second spacing value is added, the second value will be the dash

  • Add many spacing outputs for a unique stroke-dash pattern

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