Claus Cyrny wrote:
Hi again,
I found the solution myself:
Instead of using th 'brush stroke' tool, now I've been unsing the bezier tool instead with a comparably broad stroke value (6). After that, I disabled 'fill color', and then set the stroke width back to '1'.
That basically does it. Now I only have to get rid of the strokes at both ends, which only seems to work with brush strokes. Maybe I can will have to convert the bezier first, in order to be able to delete the strokes at the end.
Claus
Here's what I did: draw the streets with the pencil tool until you have them all completed. Then, according to the street importance (State/County Level/whatever), set the stroke with to whatever seems appropriate. Now do a clone (Ctrl+D), set the stroke to something a bit smaller (e.g. 14 px for the lower, 13 px for the clone, set the color to white (or yellow/red/whatever) and you have a perfectly nice street. If you grouped all the streets before, you can make sure that all the lower-level streets are below and all the narrower upper parts are above, so on junctions everything looks fine.
Additionally, you can make another clone, set the width to 0.5 or 1 and the color back to black, to get street marks.
There certainly are a million other ways to do it, but I found it quite nice first using the tablet do draw the streets without fiddling around much at first, then later simplifying them, group them by importance and apply the thing I mentioned above.
Unfortunately, (at least that I know of), there's no way to join the points of the stroke together afterwards, so if you move either the rim or the center line of the street, the other ones have to be moved as well.