On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:20:39PM +0000, Abrolag wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:21:45 -0800 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote:
If you can post them to a website, that'd be even better. There's a gallery area on the Inkscape Wiki where you can link to them, too.
I've put them on www.folderol.ukfsn.org/inkscape.shtml
Nice! Reminds me of my drafting days. :-)
I haven't linked them to the Wiki as I don't intend to leave them there permanently.
One minor problem I've had with such drawings is snapping to grid with small or irregular shaped objects. It seems that Inkscape will snap to left, right, top, bottom or centre. My way around this, which is most obviously shown in Speed_07.svg is to create an invisible box (zero width path, no path or fill colour) that fits exactly to the grid size I am using, then group this with the 'component' it surrounds. This means I can quickly and accurately position it.
Ah, interesting trick, I never thought of that. Yeah, I run into snapping irregularities a lot. I usually find that by turning off 'snap to bounding boxes' and turn on 'snap to point', it gives me pretty close to what I want. Of course, that doesn't work for non-path shapes (ellipses and rects), and it doesn't make snap-to-center as easy as would be desired.
Bryce