How create line pattern with stroke 1mm width easy way with Affinity Designer v2

[affi.usr]

I have very trivial question. How create this kind of fill pattern as bellow and easy change angle of lines at the future?

I tried hard way. Using pen draw line with angle which I want, copy and paste it and use navigator to move on X-axis. I use convertion formula 1mm to pt - 2.8346456693pt, which was rounded to 2,8 by Designer. Then when I draw first line I copy then, move and use Ctl+J multiple times (Windows user). Is it a simpler way of achieve that? I am helping creating for kids exercise hand for technical letters.

Kids will be use graph paper 1mm. I would like create drawing with space 1, 2, 3, up to 5 mm between lines and at specific angles (30, 45, 90). I want to avoid pattern which looks like good at PC but are not possible on graph paper because sa too small or large on lines and look a lot of differents because gap is too large or too small (like 2,5mm gap). My project is to provide printed example for exercise.

My first tries:

It will be perfect if I can easy way change space between lines with 1mm unit in mind, angles, and get line thick with exactly 1mm. It will be printed on typical laser printer.

 

Thank you for your suggestion and help.

[Stepaan]

And what about making the lines horizontal (or vertical) with 1mm gap and then rotate/skew the pattern?

[affi.usr]

Are you refere to Stroke panel with dashed style? I don't see option how make gap with exactly 1mm here. I can't strictly follow your idea how make it works.

[Stepaan]

• Prepare your lines (the spacing doesn't matter).
• Select them all.
• Open the Alignment tab (if you don't see it, try to customize your Toolbar).
• Select Space horizontally
• Turn off the Auto distribute function, now you can set your own gap.

Now you can use the Transform panel to skew the lines 45 degrees.

[firstdefence]

You don't need to convert lines from pt to mm, you can go to Preferences...

Show rulers

and...

to change units

 

[Stepaan]

Oh, I misunderstood!!! Sorry! You don't need to change anything in the preferences, leave them, as you want. The easiest way is to make a line and in the stroke width just type "1 mm". This way you can temporarily change ANY unit anywhere. (pt, px, mm, cm, and so on).

[affi.usr]

I give a shot and for drawing this solution is perfect. I have only one silly problem, how to apply this to shape without lost 1:1 orignal scale. I tried:

1. draw lines - now is pleasure (thank you a lot!) and copy them

2. File > New from clipboard

3. Save as JPEG file

4. At other tool select shape, press G to change too to Fill tool, change type to Bitmap and select file.

This way of work has one disadventage. I have applied result, but with wrong scale. Lines are too large. I have to manually drag it and I come back to begining. Is better way of filling shape than which I applied?