How to make a simple striped ball with Inkscape

How to make a simple striped ball with Inkscape

An easy way to make a simple stripped ball in Inkscape is to make a circle and then make 5 copies, each with an alternate color and 10 percent smaller in width.

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What You'll Need

  • Inkscape
  • striped balls
  • Christmas
  • graphics

Tips

Select object and group to move and rotate ball or ungroup and select each strip to change the color

Steps

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    Inkscape is a free professional vector graphics editor that works on  Windows, Linux and macOS. You can download it from https://inkscape.org/

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    Select the circle tool and create a circle. Select the circle and set the width to 60 mm and the height to 60mm .  

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    click on edit - duplicate or use ctrl + d on your keyboard  

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    click on another color

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    Click on object - transform

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    select the scale tab change the width to 90 percent  

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    Result

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    ctrl and d to copy in place change the color again  and change the width 80 percent  

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    ctrl and d to copy in place change the color again  and change the width 70 percent  

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    ctrl = d to copy in place

    change the color again  and change the width 60 percent  

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    result  

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    if you want to rotate the ball, click on the rotate tab on the menu and choose an angle   

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    result

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    You can copy, select stripes to change colors and use the Transform menu to change the size, location and rotation of different balls. Enjoy!  

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