Not sure about 'unseen' vectors. There are a lot of groups in the centre part with the wolf and the trees. If you want everything ungrouped, press Shift + Ctrl + G about half a dozen times. Look at the taskbar at the very bottom of the screen. Keep ungrouping until it says 'No groups to ungroup'.
If you want just the contour you need to Boolean add all shapes with the same color - open the path from the tree trunk and subtract a duplicate of the leaves from the upper trunk etc pp:
Select all the leaves and use the inx-pathops extension (https://gitlab.com/moini_ink/inx-pathops) to cut the topmost shape from all lower shapes in the selection. Remove the top leaf from the selection and call the extension again. Repeat until every leaf has been cut from every leaf below.
This is extremely tedious for large selections like yours and obviously should be automated. I don't have the programming skills, unfortunately, but somebody in the forum might take up the challenge. Or if you ask nicely, the extension author might add an option to loop through the selected shapes like this.
This is extremely tedious for large selections like yours and obviously should be automated. I don't have the programming skills, unfortunately, but somebody in the forum might take up the challenge. Or if you ask nicely, the extension author might add an option to loop through the selected shapes like this.
thank you very much, @JurgenG, but the animal is low priority, the leafs is the complex thing.
and this is just one example of my usual work. I have other designs with the same problem.
till now, i've done a mixure of your solutions, @JurgenGs one when is simple, and @TylerDurdens and @Polygos for the leaves. getting the sorrounding parts with vectors, and the inside ones with an image.
the result was quite good, but I would like to find another solution for designs from now on
Using Inkscape with Cutters/Plotters Just get visible vectors
Inkscape.org
I've downloaded a svg image from the internet to engrave it with my laser cutting machine.
the point is that this images has seen and unseen vectors. how can I get just the seen ones?
i've try it all, but I find no solution.
for example, this image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Escudo_de_Leiza.svg
Not sure about 'unseen' vectors. There are a lot of groups in the centre part with the wolf and the trees. If you want everything ungrouped, press Shift + Ctrl + G about half a dozen times. Look at the taskbar at the very bottom of the screen. Keep ungrouping until it says 'No groups to ungroup'.
When I try to Engrave it, those unseen vectors are engrave, and thats a problem.
I have ungrouped it all, but this is not the problem.
If you want just the contour you need to Boolean add all shapes with the same color - open the path from the tree trunk and subtract a duplicate of the leaves from the upper trunk etc pp:
Thanks @Polygon, this was the best I got, but is not enough.
what I need to get is something like this:
I think there is not an easy solution
I can just offer this for the foliage:
All other solutions will end with color filled shapes instead of strokes.
For the wolf it´s easy to exclude the inner line works from Boolean-add.
Select all the leaves and use the inx-pathops extension (https://gitlab.com/moini_ink/inx-pathops) to cut the topmost shape from all lower shapes in the selection. Remove the top leaf from the selection and call the extension again. Repeat until every leaf has been cut from every leaf below.
This is extremely tedious for large selections like yours and obviously should be automated. I don't have the programming skills, unfortunately, but somebody in the forum might take up the challenge. Or if you ask nicely, the extension author might add an option to loop through the selected shapes like this.
OMG - there are more than 300 leaves and you have to duplicate the top most leave covering other leaves for cutting every object touching. Have fun. 😅
An interesting method has been tested: https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/using-the-division-tool-path-menu/#c32768
But I'm not sure that's the best route for a laser engraving... shared borders would be duplicated and increase operation time immensely.
Another viable option is to make objects bitmaps, then centerline trace. This avoids the line duplication of boolean operations.
NB Some lasers have a raster engrave option that does not require vectors.
In the paths menu, you can have a look at "cut path" ...
thank you very much, @JurgenG, but the animal is low priority, the leafs is the complex thing.
and this is just one example of my usual work. I have other designs with the same problem.
till now, i've done a mixure of your solutions, @JurgenGs one when is simple, and @TylerDurdens and @Polygos for the leaves. getting the sorrounding parts with vectors, and the inside ones with an image.
the result was quite good, but I would like to find another solution for designs from now on