Question related to path and path ends
Hello,
I am not an artist at all, and find inskcape very convinient for doing schematics explaining processes, block diagrams etc.
I have 2 questions related to paths and path ends.
- When trying to align a path (with an arrow at the end) with another box, I always end-up with the path end "glueing" itself to the box's border.
I would have expected that the arrow's end glues itself instead of the path itself, else you are obliged to manualy move the path backwards by a few pixels.
- Sometimes I want to "extend" a path with another one. Imagine I have a path going from left to right, with an arrow on its right end. If I want to add another path on its left end, I can do this, for instance starting from the left hand, and going upwards elsewhere. When I do so, at the end, the arrow ends-up being at the new and, instead of staying on the right end, as originaly. I suspect this is because on the original path I had the arrow end being at the "final" end (compared to be beginning), and that by extending the path, I changed the "final" end, the arrow setting itself on this new end instead of staying where it was before.
I wanted to share with you these 2 things I am used to now, as they could be frustrating for a new user.
Last, thanks for introducing pages in the recent Inkscape version !!!
Best regards,
Vincent.
Am 23.08.24 um 09:31 schrieb vincent Dupaquis:
Hello,
Hi!
- When trying to align a path (with an arrow at the end) with
another box…
- Activate snapping to bounding box edges, if not active, and zoom in to get more precise control about what snaps.
- Sometimes I want to "extend" a path with another one. …
- Try Path > Reverse Path when the path direction was changed. Although just appending another path to an existing one doesn't actually change the direction. I don't know how you manage to do that - maybe you don't append, but draw a new one?
Maren
I wanted to share with you these 2 things I am used to now, as they could be frustrating for a new user.
Last, thanks for introducing pages in the recent Inkscape version !!!
Best regards,
Vincent.
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Hi Vincent,
You're probably referring to the effect in the screenshot below, right?
If so, then that's too bad. There is no proper way around this as far as I know, but it is annoying for sure. This is the alignment that you get when "snapping nodes" has been enabled (as opposed to "snapping bounding boxes")
For engineering purposes, one typically prefers this alignment
For horizontal and vertical lines, this alignment can be achieved by stretching the path manually, optionally with snapping of bounding boxes enabled. For other orientations than horizontal or vertical, you're out of luck
It would have been nice if Inkscape would position sharp-pointed arrows such that the point aligns with the path's end node, but in that case the path itself would also need to be drawn a little bit shorter, somehow.
Best regards,
Diederik
On 23-08-2024 09:31, vincent Dupaquis wrote:
Hello,
I am not an artist at all, and find inskcape very convinient for doing schematics explaining processes, block diagrams etc.
I have 2 questions related to paths and path ends.
- When trying to align a path (with an arrow at the end) with another box, I always end-up with the path end "glueing" itself to the box's border.
I would have expected that the arrow's end glues itself instead of the path itself, else you are obliged to manualy move the path backwards by a few pixels.
- Sometimes I want to "extend" a path with another one. Imagine I have a path going from left to right, with an arrow on its right end. If I want to add another path on its left end, I can do this, for instance starting from the left hand, and going upwards elsewhere. When I do so, at the end, the arrow ends-up being at the new and, instead of staying on the right end, as originaly. I suspect this is because on the original path I had the arrow end being at the "final" end (compared to be beginning), and that by extending the path, I changed the "final" end, the arrow setting itself on this new end instead of staying where it was before.
I wanted to share with you these 2 things I am used to now, as they could be frustrating for a new user.
Last, thanks for introducing pages in the recent Inkscape version !!!
Best regards,
Vincent.
-- *Vincent Dupaquis* Software security & Cryptography expert 06 24 58 17 05 /Europarc de Pichaury Bâtiment B8 1330 rue Guillibert Gautier de la Lauzière 13290 Aix-en-Provence/ www.trusted-objects.com http://www.trusted-objects.com
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