I'm still fooling around with Patterns, this time in Patterns in the Stroke Paint function. Thought it might be cool to use one Pattern for the stroke and another for the fill, or use the same pattern rotated differently.  I used a built-in pattern. I expected the Fill pattern to start where the Stroke pattern stopped. Instead they overlap. What's happening, and is there a way to get rid of the overlap? I understand I could achieve the look by putting one object on top of the other. That's not my question. I'm just trying to understand the limits and possibilities of the Pattern functions.

Hi,

The built in pattern is showing black strokes over a transparent background. 

If you use a custom pattern which is fully  opaque, you can achieve your goal through the stroke style settings, wether by the stroke or the fill being  on top, they will  cover the unwanted part of the other one and no overlapping will be rendered.

Use a black&white striped pattern instead a black&transparent and it'll look assumably as expected.

Thanks. Good idea. Does the original situation have to do with where the bounding box is for the fill?

hildybingen

Does the original situation have to do with where the bounding box is for the fill?

No. Can switch to geometric bounding box in the preferences if you like, it doesn't change the rendering.