- Clones break when you move them to new layers. If you cut/paste them,
or just shift pgup/pgdown them, all clones become groups.
That's strange. Please file a bug with the example file and steps to reproduce.
Right okay. I'll give it a go.
Of course you can if you use Pen tool, and you can even use Pen for measuring distances and angles. Click in one point, move around, looking in the statusbar. If you don't want to create a path, just press Esc.
Ah, I saw that. What I am saying is that if I draw a path of only 2 nodes it would be nice to see a display every time you select that path which shows it's length too. Extending that idea, a display to show the length of the path between selected nodes -- from the first selected to the last. Extending that; a way to quickly add a text object (like measure path extension does) to that path showing it's length + unit. One per segment. Have a text-input someplace to set a standard conversion factor and unit, document-wide. The text object would be under Inkscape control and would "stick" to the segments, updating as they change/move/scale etc. (i.e. It would not be selectable.)
- A label near the W/H display which auto-calculates the area of a
thing; at least for rectangles and three node shapes. More complex shapes would be good.
That's a good idea. I think it can just be added to the tooltip.
As long as it shows for long enough to be useful. i.e. seen, converted and noted someplace by the poor human :)
An idea just flashed -- an "inkspace info layer" that is not user controlled - it can be shown/hidden and contains all the various read-outs (perhaps in sub-layers like fill/line, area/w/h/length/angle, meta-info, xml info) pertinent to each object on the screen. It could be in the form of "pull-outs," pointing a line to the item, with a box of info attached. Extending that; one could setup "relationships" between the data. For example I could have three rects that each have an area; the three could be summed and the total could be dumped into the "input" of a text object; thus the text object will show the total. All formatted in a pythonic "%d meters" kind of way. Who knows where that could go... Fill A is influenced by Fill B, is influenced by the scale of C and D !
Oh, I'm just foaming at the brain. Ignore me :)
- A way to group objects *across* multiple layers: I wanted to clone my
entire plan which has many layers (one for lights, one for doors, one for walls, etc.) so that I could rotate it to face North-East. I wanted to be able to work within the original group and have the clone reflect the changes in scale, shape and movement I make. But as soon as I group my plan, all the layers snap to one layer.
That's not possible, because groups and layers are XML elements, and XML elements cannot overlap, only nest into one another.
I kind of thought as much. It was a last-ditch idea to compensate for no canvas rotation.
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