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Beginners' Questions weird results when joining two nodes
  1. #1
    joefish67 joefish67 @joefish67

    Hi everyone,

    I've been working hard for two weeks to create dozens of figures for the next course I have to teach. I'm studying hard and making great progress, but now I'm stuck at this point.
    I need to join some lines to create a closed shape to fill in. I made two circles then cut path to get two half circles, then I cut the left part of the outermost circle and then draw straight lines.

    Like this:

    When I try to join those two nodes, the shape changes and I don't understand why.


    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Using Inkscape 1.4.2 (ebf0e940, 2025-05-08) on Mac Os Sonoma 14.5, attached the svg file.

    JF

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  2. #2
    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden
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    Paths 14, 12 and 9 have a path-effect applied. Selecting the lines and using menu: Path>Remove Path Effect should resolve this issue.

  3. #3
    joefish67 joefish67 @joefish67

    Oh great!

    Thanks Tyler.

    Just to learn more...  

    Why did those paths have path effects? Was it due to my mistakes or other reasons?

  4. #4
    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden

    Hard to say how they got there. Easy enough to have the Pen Tool's bspline button pressed by accident. That creates paths with effects.

  5. #5
    joefish67 joefish67 @joefish67
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    I see!

    Thank you very much!

  6. #6
    COD COD @COD
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    ***Note***
    A path effect is also used when using "Create Spiro path" mode. 

    Wild guess: I would imagine setting Shape other than "none" will also result in a path effect. Didn't verify this. 

     

  7. #7
    David248 David248 @David248
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    COD

    Wild guess: I would imagine setting Shape other than "none" will also result in a path effect. Didn't verify this. 

    Yep :

    From Clipboard set to the path drawn with bezier or pen tool a pattern along path LPE with the path in clipboard as a pattern.

    Bend from Clipboard set to the path in clipboard a Bend LPE with the path drawn with bezier or pen tool as a bending path

     

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