Drawing roads in freehand

Question

As a complete punter on Freehand (10) I'm struggling with how
to draw lines with black edges and a coloured fill (like on an
Ordnance survey map).
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Tubbs_T
I have never used pen tool for such, probably because of the
myriad of nodes it will produce and a large road map would become
too slow to draw (ok ...I have thousands of roads on mine and it
does grind to a halt ), I also prefer an intelligent map such that
if my 0.15mm black line peeking out under the red line is too thin,
I just alter its line weight. Using styles at the outset makes life
easier still, saves trying to select all the black lines for A
roads to alter their weight.
My method if of use, and I draw maps for a living :-
If using layers as I do, you will have layer names from top
to bottom of :-
Mway blue
primary A rd green
other A rds red
B roads brown
C rds yellow
D rds grey
Mway outline dk blue or black
primary A rds outline black
Other A rds outline black
B rds outline black
C rds outline black
D rds I dont bother with an edge, too thin by then ! even C
rds not vital if yellow strong enough.
Roundabouts on A rds can be red spots or green ones (life
more complex now that O.S. have green and red A rds !) with stroke
of black as edge, or rings with another layer for the black edge.
If altering the black edge of the roads using style , dont forget
the strokes of the roundabouts as a separate task.
All coloured layers sit above the black layers.
all these sit above rivers and those above settlement shapes
and so on.
As for A road over motorway, afraid thats two layers, one for
the black edge, both sited above the rest of the layers, and so on.
I shall look into your method though !
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