I've drawn a foil cross section, and want to break the path so I can split it into a foil and flap.
I've tried adding a node (double-click) to both the top line of the path, and also on the bottom line, and "Break path at selected nodes". Then I tried again, this time adding 2 nodes to both top and bottom, and "Delete segment between two non-endpoint nodes".
In both cases, I'd expected to end up with 2 separate paths, but no go.
Attached SVG has original path, and the copy that I tried to split. Suggestions on what I've done wrong would be appreciated!
I don't have a working desktop pc anymore - so it's a bit of hit&miss as I can't load the svg on my iPad.
Can you go in node tool mode and rectangle select the original foil and count its amount of points please and what the status bar is telling you? If there are more points than you see by eye go "connect endpoints" to make it a continous path. You can now for instance place a very slim rectangle at the place where you want to break it by selecting both shapes and go Path->Difference. The result should be two closed shapes as a compound path (possibly a group nowadays). Proceed as you like. Let see how it goes.
It seems the drawing is made with the Bezier tool's "shape" set to something other than none. I'd try drawing with the tool shape set to "none" and see how it goes.
Can't he just get rid of that effect then instead of drawing new? I do it though as the front portion seems to contain an edge point and is not smooth.
Don't know what I've done... it says 45 nodes - way more than I could originally see. When I zoomed way in, it looks like everywhere I thought there was one node, there are two, extremely close together!
I created this soon after starting with Inkscape, trying out the Bezier tool, and somehow I made a complete mess of it, even if it "looked" OK!
Now that I'm better with this tool, I'll just create a new version of it.
[Edit] Never used the Bezier tool at anything but Shape = None.
Never used the Bezier tool at anything but Shape = None.
The object may also have resulted from stroke-to-path or a trace. In any case, it is a not a stroked path which makes the job harder. I'd use Path>break apart (making two filled objects), then use one of them with a stroke (and no fill) to node edit.
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I've drawn a foil cross section, and want to break the path so I can split it into a foil and flap.
I've tried adding a node (double-click) to both the top line of the path, and also on the bottom line, and "Break path at selected nodes". Then I tried again, this time adding 2 nodes to both top and bottom, and "Delete segment between two non-endpoint nodes".
In both cases, I'd expected to end up with 2 separate paths, but no go.
Attached SVG has original path, and the copy that I tried to split. Suggestions on what I've done wrong would be appreciated!
I don't have a working desktop pc anymore - so it's a bit of hit&miss as I can't load the svg on my iPad.
Can you go in node tool mode and rectangle select the original foil and count its amount of points please and what the status bar is telling you? If there are more points than you see by eye go "connect endpoints" to make it a continous path. You can now for instance place a very slim rectangle at the place where you want to break it by selecting both shapes and go Path->Difference. The result should be two closed shapes as a compound path (possibly a group nowadays). Proceed as you like. Let see how it goes.
It seems the drawing is made with the Bezier tool's "shape" set to something other than none. I'd try drawing with the tool shape set to "none" and see how it goes.
Can't he just get rid of that effect then instead of drawing new? I do it though as the front portion seems to contain an edge point and is not smooth.
Don't know what I've done... it says 45 nodes - way more than I could originally see. When I zoomed way in, it looks like everywhere I thought there was one node, there are two, extremely close together!
I created this soon after starting with Inkscape, trying out the Bezier tool, and somehow I made a complete mess of it, even if it "looked" OK!
Now that I'm better with this tool, I'll just create a new version of it.
[Edit] Never used the Bezier tool at anything but Shape = None.
The object may also have resulted from stroke-to-path or a trace. In any case, it is a not a stroked path which makes the job harder. I'd use Path>break apart (making two filled objects), then use one of them with a stroke (and no fill) to node edit.
Ja, if this were cad, I'd resolve that, but this is an illustration.
All good now. Created new path with 14 nodes, and broke it apart just as expected. Thank you.