how to close ellispe brush stroke?

[Giggly]

I created an ellipse and then changed the stroke to a brush stroke as shown in the attached image.  How can I make the stroke ends closer together?

 

[Alfred]

Somewhat counterintuitively, you need to open the curve to make the stroke look closed. Select the ellipse, convert to curves and then select a node with the Node Tool and choose the ‘Break Curve’ command.

[Pšenda]

Or modify Brush (Head and Tail Offset).

Unfortunately, the rendering of closed curves is not resolved correctly.

[Giggly]

Hi Alfred,

That helped bring the ends a bit closer together.  How can I make a complete circle with a brush stroke?

Does Psenda's reply mean that it can't currently be done?

[Giggly]

Why does changing Miter from 1.5 to 1 create repeating empty spaces around the outside of the circle in the attached image?

[Giggly]

Can a brush stroke be applied to a dashed line?

[Aammppaa]

18 minutes ago, Giggly said:

Can a brush stroke be applied to a dashed line?

Short answer: No. A stroke can either be solid, dashed, have a pressure profile, or a brush stroke.

Long answer: Yes.

With the addition in 1.7 of the appearance panel it is now possible to do some interesting things, though these sometimes result in a raster image (on export) rather than a pure vector image.

To dash a textured brush stroke…

1. Apply Textured stroke.
2. Add a 2nd stroke.
3. Make 2nd stroke dashed, wider than the 1st stroke, above the 1st stroke, with blend mode Erase.
4. Adjust as you see fit.

[Giggly]

Thanks for your detailed instructions Aammppaa.  I wonder why there isn't a way to create dashed or small repeating brush strokes?