i am making a template for a knitting type mask , its a rectangle about 6 x 4 inches and i want to cut it on a cricut so that i can paint a knitted pattern on wood, the pieces in the rectangle are 12 high by 22 wide which is a lot of little pieces , with the cricut i need to bullion difference all the little pieces so that it recognizes that they are holes to be cut , at the moment the only way i can do this is 1 at a time, i have no problem doing this but is there a quicker way to achieve the same result , i did try grouping them but only half of them cut out , possibly because they were copied and mirrored , not sure but i had alternating lines of cut out and solid, probably something i did when i made the original pattern
I'm not sure that I understand your request. Maybe attach an image that you want to replicate. Here goes anyway.
You want to divide a 6in x 4in rectangle into a 12px x 22px grid.
6in x 4in at 96ppi = 576px x 384px 576px / 12px = 48 columns 384px / 22px = 17.45 rows (round this up to 18 later)
Draw a 12px x 22px right angle path (two sides of the 12 x 22 rectangle). Open the path effects dialog [Path > Path Effects...] or [shift+ctrl+7]. [Add Live Path Effect > Tiling] to create a grid of small rectangles. [Rows: 18] and [Columns: 48] creates a grid that covers your large rectangle.
[Path > Object to Path] or [shift+ctrl+c] changes the grid into a single path. Maybe you can use this in your Cricut directly. Or you can use boolean operations to chop up the 6x4 rectangle.
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i am making a template for a knitting type mask , its a rectangle about 6 x 4 inches and i want to cut it on a cricut so that i can paint a knitted pattern on wood, the pieces in the rectangle are 12 high by 22 wide which is a lot of little pieces , with the cricut i need to bullion difference all the little pieces so that it recognizes that they are holes to be cut , at the moment the only way i can do this is 1 at a time, i have no problem doing this but is there a quicker way to achieve the same result , i did try grouping them but only half of them cut out , possibly because they were copied and mirrored , not sure but i had alternating lines of cut out and solid, probably something i did when i made the original pattern
well i just tried it again , combining about a quarter of the together and it worked so i did the rest and that worked too
I'm not sure that I understand your request. Maybe attach an image that you want to replicate. Here goes anyway.
You want to divide a 6in x 4in rectangle into a 12px x 22px grid.
6in x 4in at 96ppi = 576px x 384px
576px / 12px = 48 columns
384px / 22px = 17.45 rows (round this up to 18 later)
Draw a 12px x 22px right angle path (two sides of the 12 x 22 rectangle).
Open the path effects dialog [Path > Path Effects...] or [shift+ctrl+7].
[Add Live Path Effect > Tiling] to create a grid of small rectangles.
[Rows: 18] and [Columns: 48] creates a grid that covers your large rectangle.
[Path > Object to Path] or [shift+ctrl+c] changes the grid into a single path. Maybe you can use this in your Cricut directly. Or you can use boolean operations to chop up the 6x4 rectangle.
There´s an extension for that: https://inkscape.org/~Moini/★multiple-boolean-operations-with-inx-pathops
Here's another suggestion for creating a grid, again using the Tiling path effect. You can easily adjust the vertical and horizontal spacing.
i already have the shapes i want just wanted to difference them from the outside rectangle, like this , this is the finished piece already cut out