I have just made my first few images on inkscape and sent them to my brother who has a laser cutter. He opened the files with corel draw and when he opened the files, all of the lines between each node was acting like an individual line. I had grouped everything before I sent it to him and had originally drawn the outlines using the pen icon with a line and nodes on the left (draw besier curves and straight lines). I hope i’m explaining this properly, but for example, an outline of a flower looks to me like 1 line with lots of nodes on it but when he moves it, it’s made up of lots of smaller lines that are between the nodes. Do you know how I can make it so it is 1 unbroken line? Also, parts that I had filled with a solid colour only showed up on corel draw as outlines. I saved the files as DFX (R14) files as he couldn't open them in SVG.
To get a continuous line you can try to select everything for one shape with the "S"elect tool - change to "N"ode tool and select again so every node as "active" - go now to the top bar and find the icon for "Join selected nodes" which by clicking on it hopefully will connect all loose part into one stroke.
Beginners' Questions drawing with lines and nodes
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I have just made my first few images on inkscape and sent them to my brother who has a laser cutter. He opened the files with corel draw and when he opened the files, all of the lines between each node was acting like an individual line. I had grouped everything before I sent it to him and had originally drawn the outlines using the pen icon with a line and nodes on the left (draw besier curves and straight lines). I hope i’m explaining this properly, but for example, an outline of a flower looks to me like 1 line with lots of nodes on it but when he moves it, it’s made up of lots of smaller lines that are between the nodes. Do you know how I can make it so it is 1 unbroken line? Also, parts that I had filled with a solid colour only showed up on corel draw as outlines. I saved the files as DFX (R14) files as he couldn't open them in SVG.
Thanks in advance
To get a continuous line you can try to select everything for one shape with the "S"elect tool - change to "N"ode tool and select again so every node as "active" - go now to the top bar and find the icon for "Join selected nodes" which by clicking on it hopefully will connect all loose part into one stroke.