KNOTSBAG 2.0
User's manual




Abstract

KnotsBag is shareware and is available here : http://www.hypatiasoft.fr. With KnotsBag you will be able to create beautiful knotwork by just clicking on points. You just have to create a graph. For that you create points with the mouse and you link the points with one of the four different links available. KnotsBag makes the knot from the graph. You can adjust the colours, widths, etc. before exporting in .svg for Inkscape or Illustrator (or .ai) to polish your work.







I - Tools



move your drawing on the canvascreate a pointdelete a pointmove a point
 
cut a linkcreate a red link create a blue linkcreate a perpendicular linkcreate a parallel link
create a braidworktilling the selection
select pointsflip  selection flip selectionmove the selection  left by 1 pixelmove  the selection  right by 1 pixelmove  the selection up by 1 pixel move the selection down by 1 pixel rotate to the right the selection by a given anglerotate to the left the selection by a given angle
 create a polygon using two points of the polygon create a polygon using one point of the polygon and the center create an apex create a drawing to make a tetraedron  create a drawing to make an hexaedron  create a drawing to make an octaedron  create a drawing to make a dodecaedron create a drawing to make an icosaedron
modify curvesmodify displaymodify gridwebsite
see what you're modifyingmodify the strip widthmodify the offset curves widthmodify the midle line width
modify curvesmodify angleslide along the red linksslide perpendicularly to the blue linksmodify the gap of the perpendicular linksmodify the gap of the parallel linksmodify the tangents of the perpendicular linksmodify the tangents of the perpendicular links





II - Video tutorials 


Click on the movie icon to start the tutorial.



1- Creating a graph

    1.1 Creating points.

        1.1.1    Without grid.

        1.1.2    Square grid.

        1.1.3    Triangular grid.


    1.2 Deleting points.

        1.2.1 Deleting one point.

        1.2.2 Deleting several points.

2-
Creating links

    2.1 Red link.

    2.2 Blue link.

    2.3 Perpendicular link.

    2.4 Parallel link.

3- Using polygons

    3.1 Creating polygons.

    3.2 Creating polygrams.

    3.3 Creating fractal polygons.

4- Selection

    4.1 Copying the selection.

    4.2 Rotating the selection.

5-
Colours

    5.1 Choosing colours.


6- 
Corners

 6.1 Adding corners.

7- 
Braidwork / Tilling

 7.1 Creating braidwork and tilling in GIMP.

 7.2 Tilling in KnotsBag.


8-
KnotsBag & Inkscape

 8.1 Export and shadows.

 8.2 Playing with layers.

9-
KnotsBag & GIMP

 9.1 Export for Gimp.

 9.2 Playing with textures.

9-
KnotsBag & Illustrator

 9.1 Export and layers.

 9.2 Path & shape 1.

9.3 Path & shape 2.