Drawing parallel lines

Parallel lines have many uses for drawings such as maps. You can easily create accurate, parallel lines using Xara LX.

To create parallel lines

1. Draw a line along the path of the parallel lines. See Drawing lines.

2. Set it to the color (red in the example) you want the two lines. See Coloring objects.

3. Set its line thickness. See Changing line thickness. The thickness should be the width across the two parallel lines. That is, the width of the two parallel lines plus the gap between them.

4. Clone the line. See Copying objects.

5. Set the line color of the clone to the background color. (White in the example.)

6. Reduce the line thickness of the clone to that of the gap between the parallel lines.

Tip

Group the two lines so they always move together. See Grouping objects.