Hi, sorry for what's hopefully a very simple question, but I'm pretty much brand new to InkScape and google hasn't been super helpful here. I've got an SVG that I exported from a design I made in FreeCAD. What FreeCAD seems to have done for its export is turned more complicated shapes--such as the elongated slots and L shapes--into a series of paths that overlap at their endpoints. My goal is to join these paths together so that I can fill their interiors. So far I've tried using Paths -> Union and a handful of other menu items that seemed potentially promising, and attempting to use the node editor tool to join the nodes at the ends, and neither approach works. Is this something really simple that I'm missing an obvious solution to, or is there something weird about the way FreeCAD does the export that's getting in my way?
Hah, I may have to start considering that. The nice thing about doing it in CAD is I can design everything with dimensional constraints and make them parametric if I want...but then it looks like I'm gonna have some post processing to do afterwards if I want to cut out the design
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Hi, sorry for what's hopefully a very simple question, but I'm pretty much brand new to InkScape and google hasn't been super helpful here. I've got an SVG that I exported from a design I made in FreeCAD. What FreeCAD seems to have done for its export is turned more complicated shapes--such as the elongated slots and L shapes--into a series of paths that overlap at their endpoints. My goal is to join these paths together so that I can fill their interiors. So far I've tried using Paths -> Union and a handful of other menu items that seemed potentially promising, and attempting to use the node editor tool to join the nodes at the ends, and neither approach works. Is this something really simple that I'm missing an obvious solution to, or is there something weird about the way FreeCAD does the export that's getting in my way?
I'm using 0.92 on Ubuntu 20.10
What seems easy isn´t because of the geometry: every single line is already a shape and to merge these you have to break them down to strokes.
The gif will tell´ya what´s behind the scene:
That explains it, thank you! I'm guessing there's not a way to automate trimming out those inner parts of the paths?
No - it´s totally confusing. Inkscape can´t know which part you dont want.
But building these shapes is super easy in Inkscape. No CAD needed. ;-)
Hah, I may have to start considering that. The nice thing about doing it in CAD is I can design everything with dimensional constraints and make them parametric if I want...but then it looks like I'm gonna have some post processing to do afterwards if I want to cut out the design