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I would recommend you play around with it a bit and let your creativity run wild! This can work with any path you’d like! Here’s how it looks applied to a wavy line…Īnd there’s a lot more that the pattern along path feature can do, like add spaces between each object, stretch out a single object rather than repeat it, etc. Once you click the link button, it will tell Inkscape to take whatever you have copied to your clipboard and wrap copies of it around your selected path… In the menu, select “ Repeated, stretched” from the drop down menu, then click the lock icon on the right hand side that reads “link” when you hover your cursor over it. Nothing will happen to your design just yet, but the Pattern Along Path menu should populate. For basics of object creation, selection, and transformation, see the Basic tutorial in Help Tutorials. Use Ctrl + Arrows, mousewheel, or middle button drag to scroll the page down.

Select the circle then navigate to Path -> Path Effects and choose Pattern Along Path from the drop down menu and click Add. We will demonstrate the capabilities of Inkscape shapes and show examples of how and when they could be used.

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