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The Rope / Braid path effect applied to a sample shape
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Rope / Braid

Two, three or four strands winding round each other build a nautical border, a maritime menu frame or the cord on a luggage tag.

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Parameters3 adjustable
On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel
Destructiveno, the original path is kept
LicenceFree for commercial use

The 3 controls

Nothing here is baked in. Every value stays live on the object for as long as the file exists, so you can come back and retune it, reorder it against other effects, or take it off and get your original path back exactly as you drew it.

  1. Thickness1 to 40, default 8
  2. Twist0.5 to 12, default 2.5
  3. StrandsTwo, Three, Four

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