Hi. Your image is not very clear and I am not certain what you are trying to do. You call the rectangles "dots".
I see a series of rectangles in a circular pattern. Are you wanting some ray like groups in a circular pattern? Like rays (arms) extending from the center? Please give more details on what you want and the steps you have already taken.
If you do indeed want a ring of rectangles in a circular fashion, you can use the Scatter extension and then make several concentric circles. See image steps below.
If this is not what you are after, please share more specific details.
So, you want circles, not squares - like the example PixelPest shared previously?
He can come along and share his process, if he wishes.
The Scatter extension steps I shared can be done with any shape, including circles, ellipses, etc.
In the example you shared, where you used squares/rectangles - if you want all your squares to be "instantly changed" into circles - that won't happen. You will have to manually create at least one circle, and then move on from there.
You can use the pattern along path extension, or tiled clones, or start with a circle, move its rotation center to a different location and duplicate your starting circle, and rotate each duplicated object, over and over again repeating this until a complete circle is formed. This is easily done by using the Transform Panel, with the Rotate tab.
Do you want your outcome to be like what PixelPest shared ... or something else?
Great. You can copy and paste any objects style (shift+ctrl+v) onto your own objects. If you want to make your own custom style for dashed lines in Inkscape, use the XML Editor and edit the styles values for stroke-dasharray. The trick in this case was setting the first value to 0, and using a round line cap.
@Aero, I am trying to do something similar to what you described above, but so far I have not been able. It is a graph, where I would like to change the dots with a specific color to a cross. For example, change all the red dots to red crosses. I used the XML Editor as suggested, with no success. If you could please indicate step by step I would be thankful.
Select a marker you want to replace. [right click > Select Same > Fill Colour] to find the matching markers. The status bar counts them for you. Draw a new marker. Create enough tiled clones to replace every marker you counted. Select the old markers and the tiled clones. Open the [Align and Distribute] dialog. [Exchange positions of selected objects - stacking order]. Repeat for each marker.
If you want to make your own custom style for dashed lines in Inkscape, use the XML Editor and edit the styles values for stroke-dasharray. The trick in this case was setting the first value to 0, and using a round line cap.
I created an account here just to tell you what an absolute boss you are, @Aero!
It's so stupid that there's no option to pick rounded dots natively, but I'm glad I found this work-around :)
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what can i do to keep these dots round?
Hi. Your image is not very clear and I am not certain what you are trying to do. You call the rectangles "dots".
I see a series of rectangles in a circular pattern. Are you wanting some ray like groups in a circular pattern? Like rays (arms) extending from the center? Please give more details on what you want and the steps you have already taken.
Hi, again.
If you do indeed want a ring of rectangles in a circular fashion, you can use the Scatter extension and then make several concentric circles. See image steps below.
If this is not what you are after, please share more specific details.
Maybe she wants a dashed line?
Good post, PixelPest. Like you, I am waiting on more specific and clear details.
Hi, Angelika20. Maybe this translation link will help.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=ms-android-verizon&sxsrf=ALeKk02uup8m8pXDNi6SOOIdNCFxCyhVMg:1619293702231&q=translate+english+to+polish&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm5KGP05fwAhUUbs0KHeG4CacQBSgAegQIARAC&biw=360&bih=560&dpr=2
Or this one
https://www.google.com/search?q=translate+polish+to+english&safe=active&client=ms-android-verizon&biw=360&bih=560&sxsrf=ALeKk03u-M1qaOzHkTXURCZmf_5CxGCulA%3A1619293705107&ei=CXaEYJyBBoWstQa6yqewCg&oq=translate+polish&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIHCAAQhwIQFDIHCAAQhwIQFDICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADoECAAQRzoECCMQJzoFCAAQsQM6CggAEIcCELEDEBQ6CAgAELEDEJECOgUIABCRAjoICAAQsQMQgwFQw_sKWOexC2DEugtoAHABeACAAd4BiAHsG5IBBjAuMjEuMpgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
I want these points to look like this:
like circles, not squares
So, you want circles, not squares - like the example PixelPest shared previously?
He can come along and share his process, if he wishes.
The Scatter extension steps I shared can be done with any shape, including circles, ellipses, etc.
In the example you shared, where you used squares/rectangles - if you want all your squares to be "instantly changed" into circles - that won't happen. You will have to manually create at least one circle, and then move on from there.
You can use the pattern along path extension, or tiled clones, or start with a circle, move its rotation center to a different location and duplicate your starting circle, and rotate each duplicated object, over and over again repeating this until a complete circle is formed. This is easily done by using the Transform Panel, with the Rotate tab.
Do you want your outcome to be like what PixelPest shared ... or something else?
Do you want a stroke style like in the attached svg, or do you want to trace a bitmap using the default settings?
@Aero like in the attached svg :)
Great. You can copy and paste any objects style (shift+ctrl+v) onto your own objects.
If you want to make your own custom style for dashed lines in Inkscape, use the XML Editor and edit the styles values for stroke-dasharray. The trick in this case was setting the first value to 0, and using a round line cap.
@Aero, I am trying to do something similar to what you described above, but so far I have not been able. It is a graph, where I would like to change the dots with a specific color to a cross. For example, change all the red dots to red crosses. I used the XML Editor as suggested, with no success. If you could please indicate step by step I would be thankful.
Not 100% sure - but I´m not able to replace a shape with another one via Find&Replace.
Select a marker you want to replace. [right click > Select Same > Fill Colour] to find the matching markers. The status bar counts them for you.
Draw a new marker. Create enough tiled clones to replace every marker you counted.
Select the old markers and the tiled clones. Open the [Align and Distribute] dialog.
[Exchange positions of selected objects - stacking order]. Repeat for each marker.
Arrange / swap not working properly for me...
It works perfectly for me (v1.1 Win10 and MacOS). The markers were switched one by one each time I clicked [Exchange positions]. What did you see?
The translate is correct but the z-order is not.
It worked! Thank you very much @Paddy_CAD. You saved me of many headaches!
I created an account here just to tell you what an absolute boss you are, @Aero!
It's so stupid that there's no option to pick rounded dots natively, but I'm glad I found this work-around :)
Thank you NeverGameS:)
Custom Dash patterns was new in Inkscape a year later, in version 1.2.
https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Release_notes_files_1.2/Inkscape_yrHv1frJlF.gif