I have an outline I can 3d print nicely (from here I removed the fill , decreased stroke, imported to a 3d printer 'slicer' which allows projection into 3d, scaled and printed). Now I need to make another shape into which the first will fit snugly - if this was openCV I blv. I could do this with a dilate and difference sequence. Just scaling doesn't get me the right shape as the outline is not symmetric enough.
As it is I tried making a copy of the outline (actually, 'path' in inkscape parlance I suppose) with larger stroke and then doing a difference, but the difference seems to operate on path points and not image points - so how would I do this? I've tried fooling with 'offset' but I blv that will only give a kind of shadow in one direction.
1. Path menu -> path effects -> hit the + symbol, choose the 'offset' effect .
2. Go to 'edit path by nodes' tool under the arrow tool , click on object which will cause red dot to appear. Dragging red dot will increase/decrease offset.
Beginners' Questions equivalent of dilate/erode
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I have an outline I can 3d print nicely (from here I removed the fill , decreased stroke, imported to a 3d printer 'slicer' which allows projection into 3d, scaled and printed).
Now I need to make another shape into which the first will fit snugly - if this was openCV I blv. I could do this with a dilate and difference sequence. Just scaling doesn't get me the right shape as the outline is not symmetric enough.
As it is I tried making a copy of the outline (actually, 'path' in inkscape parlance I suppose) with larger stroke and then doing a difference, but the difference seems to operate on path points and not image points - so how would I do this? I've tried fooling with 'offset' but I blv that will only give a kind of shadow in one direction.
N.B. I am rather a noob at inkscape....
1. Path menu -> path effects -> hit the + symbol, choose the 'offset' effect .
2. Go to 'edit path by nodes' tool under the arrow tool , click on object which will cause red dot to appear. Dragging red dot will increase/decrease offset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9weeHXBbCz4 has a good video for it.
Thanks for inkscape, good luck on all your projects.