Thanks Marc, Yes, that would work, if I knew I was going to add it to the group before I draw it. But usually adding to the group comes later, at least for what I'm doing at the moment. I have several identical groups around the canvas, and some time later, I decided they need an extra piece.
But that does give me the idea that I could edit 1 group. Then duplicate as many times as needed, and replace the original groups. That would be faster than editing each group, one at a time.
Thank you very much :-)
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Marc Jeanmougin" <marc@...3080...> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 4:24 PM To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] combine paths within a group
"1/ Enter the group, 2/ draw" will make the drawing inside the group (maybe I misunderstood the question ?)
-- Mc
On 04/30/2016 06:08 PM, Brynn wrote:
Thanks Maren.
Ok yeah, that's much better. But newly drawn objects are always on top. If you're going to add a new path to anything, it's going to be on top.
As an "ordinary" or non-technical Inkscape user, it totally doesn't make sense that you have to move the path to the bottom, to avoid breaking up the group.
Does anyone know a faster way to add a path to a group, besides having groups of groups of groups? Is there any way to draw a new path where it gets automatically added to the bottom?
I know I could cut, enter the group, and paste in place. But combine is so much faster. But move to the bottom and then combine isn't much faster.
Thanks again, brynn
From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...3112...> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 7:49 AM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] combine paths within a group
Hi Brynn,
as with all the Boolean operations, the result depends on the stacking order. Try moving the path you want to add to the group to the bottom first. For me, that works.
I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug... The stacking order is the established way to tell Inkscape how to combine/subtract/etc. objects.
Kind regards, Maren
Am 30.04.2016 um 14:35 schrieb Brynn:
Hi Friends, I needed to add some new paths to existing paths which were in a group. And I hate nested groups. So rather than group the new path with the original group, I decided to combine the new paths with one of the paths inside the group. And I found that combining the new paths to the paths inside the group, removed the new compound path from the group. Should that happen? Steps: 1 -- create 3 paths (or create 1 and duplicate twice) 2 -- place the 3 paths side by side (with or without space between) 3 -- group those 3 paths 4 -- draw a new path 5 -- drag it over beside the left path 6 -- with the Node tool, select the left path and the new path 7 -- Path menu > Combine 8 -- deselect all 9 -- switch to Selection tool and select the group
Notice that the original Group of 3 is now a Group of 2. Thenewly created compound path has been ejected from the Group. The same thing happens if you enter the group before combining. Should that happen? I don't know why Inkscape should assume that I don't want this new path in the group anymore. I can't say for a fact that this is different behavior than in the past. But it seems like it is. If this is expected, why? If not, this is on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, with Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) and 64-bit (7z version). Should be reported?
Thank you very much :-) brynn
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