How to draw insulation easily

[Mr Lucky]

Typically architects represent insulation with a continuous squiggly line:

Does anyone know of a quick way to do this with Vector? e.g. a vector brush plugin.

I also want to represent polystyrene bead insulation, which is basically small beads within a cavity. The beads need to be shown in a random patter as they are random sizes, something like this:

Again with vectors.

 

Maybe there is a vector brush plugin that could do these?

[KarinC]

I would just make a brush (for the wiggly lines). Once you learn how, which is easy, you might find yourself making all sorts of brushes.

here is a good video on how to do it. It may (or may not) work well for the beads.

 

[thomaso]

Since such pattern usually appear within shapes (not as contour) it might be more efficient to use an bitmap Fill rather than a brush Stroke. Those fills can get scaled, rotated etc. within the area that has it assigned and thus they are also more flexible than the image of a brush that grows/shrinks in size with the stroke width.

[StuartRc]

You could use a vector asset as a bitmap fill to get the poly effect
Something like this:

 

poly.zip

[Mr Lucky]

Thanks, done the wiggly line as a brush. One annoying thing it doesn't seems to work using a vector as the image.

 

Just working on the bitmap fills.

[StuartRc]

You could cover the area with the vector version (scaling etc if necessary). The Square should also tile together. So you can create a larger area
I filled the dots with the 2 graduation swatches. Then the style picker to colour the flat vectors (Useful if you want to mix the colours!)