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As you can see, there's infinite possibilities.I just start to use Klayout. I've played with it for hours on end, just coming up with neat design ideas.

Then, just grab a spare rocket ship thrust nozzle vector and slap it on! Pretty cool, huh?Ĭreate Tiled Clones is such a great tool to work with. Select your ellipse and set these options in Create Tiled Clones:įinally, go ahead and set Rows to 20 and Columns to 1, then click that Create button! You see we ended up with a neat flame to smoke effect.

Now listen closely, because here comes a bunch of settings. First, draw an ellipse and set to Fill to undefined. Here's an awesome use of Create Tiled Clones. Step 2Īnd then you're all set to create as large of an area as you need! This is great for wallpapers, by the way. In the below example I've used the end result to my Aztec pattern in Inkscape tutorial. To avoid any sort of pixel perfect issues, make sure your position and sizes contain no decimals. Select any repeating pattern, and create tiled clones without any fancy effects. Here's what you'll get when you go to the Blur & opacity tab and apply a 10% Fade out on rows and columns.Ī simple yet effective use of creating tiled clones is to do simply just that. I've created clones with 3 rows, 4 columns, and a Scale X and Scale Y of -20% on the rows only.

Simple enough, right?īelow, I have some Scaling action. Of course, this behaves the same for Shift X. Below, I have a -50% Shift Y set on the per row so that each row of newly cloned objects covers 50% of the previous. This is a neat and simple way to adjust positioning with your clones. Make sure you have your Symmetry set to P1: simple translation for these. Below, since my object is 100px by 100px, I set my values to 100px by 700px to create a rectangle of clones 200px wide and 800px tall (because it accounts for the original object's 100px). Below, I did 4 Rows and 2 Columns.Īlternatively, you could go ahead and specify a width and height. The most simple use of this is to simply select an object, assign values for Rows and Columns, then click Create. So where is this beautiful tool? Head up to Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones to open it up. It can be used for so many things, but let's just dive right in! 1. It's a very useful menu with tons of options for creating large amounts of identical, yet dynamic objects, such as patterns. In this quick tip, we're going to go over a tool called Create Tiled Clones.