Hello! Ive just discovered Inkscape and it seems really good!
Im doing this flowerbed in 2x6m in scale 1:25, 1cm on the paper is 25cm in real life.
How can I get Inkscape to understand that the picture on this picture is 2x6m? And how do I put out flowers on the flowerbed thats Centrum/Centrum 50cm (which is 2cm on the paper) in circles?
In CAD programs you draw everything in 1:1 scale -"model scale". That will make everything to appear in their true size.
The scale factor you set in a cad program indicates how the pen/line thickness is scaled and the image output should be scaled relative to an output size.
Thus in a cad software you don't have to scale anything up manually and do the math in the drawing measures.
Contrary inkscape, being a simple designer/drawing program, draws everything in "paper" scale.
You draw in true scale of your output size. Thus, if you want to draw a 2,00/6,00 rectangle, instead you should draw a rectangle of 80 mm / 240 mm.
How?
First set up your document right in the document's settings (Shift+Ctrl+D).
Paper size to A4 landscape,
display units to mm
and scale factor to 1.
Then use the rectangle tool to draw the 80 mm / 240 mm area.
Attaching an example.
All in all check out the manual -specifically the basics of the fill and stroke panel (Shift+Ctel+F), alignment (Shift+Ctrl+A) and creating tiled clones.
@hobs0n in Inkscape you have the option of setting units and drawing in life size. Meaning your 1 meter bed is 1 meter. This works fairly well as long as you don't try adding fonts: the font has to be so huge things start to break down.
You can then scale for the screen or paper easily.
Initially with your svg I couldn't get it to work. The scale factor was inexplicably and consistently off by 75%. On deeper investigation I saw that your scan is an embedded bitmap inside a transformed group inside a transformed layer. This must have confused the extension. When I removed all the groups and transforms everything scaled perfectly. The attachment shows scaled and unscaled dimensions as reported by the Measure tool.
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Hello! Ive just discovered Inkscape and it seems really good!
Im doing this flowerbed in 2x6m in scale 1:25, 1cm on the paper is 25cm in real life.
How can I get Inkscape to understand that the picture on this picture is 2x6m? And how do I put out flowers on the flowerbed thats Centrum/Centrum 50cm (which is 2cm on the paper) in circles?
I included the .SVG file
Thanks in advance :)
Hi.
In CAD programs you draw everything in 1:1 scale -"model scale". That will make everything to appear in their true size.
The scale factor you set in a cad program indicates how the pen/line thickness is scaled and the image output should be scaled relative to an output size.
Thus in a cad software you don't have to scale anything up manually and do the math in the drawing measures.
Contrary inkscape, being a simple designer/drawing program, draws everything in "paper" scale.
You draw in true scale of your output size. Thus, if you want to draw a 2,00/6,00 rectangle, instead you should draw a rectangle of 80 mm / 240 mm.
How?
First set up your document right in the document's settings (Shift+Ctrl+D).
Paper size to A4 landscape,
display units to mm
and scale factor to 1.
Then use the rectangle tool to draw the 80 mm / 240 mm area.
Attaching an example.
All in all check out the manual -specifically the basics of the fill and stroke panel (Shift+Ctel+F), alignment (Shift+Ctrl+A) and creating tiled clones.
@hobs0n in Inkscape you have the option of setting units and drawing in life size. Meaning your 1 meter bed is 1 meter.
This works fairly well as long as you don't try adding fonts: the font has to be so huge things start to break down.
You can then scale for the screen or paper easily.
Hi Mattias. Among other things, I use Inkscape to mark up CAD drawings (pdf files or scanned bitmaps) and I find the realscale extension invaluable.
https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85realscale-resize-by-line-of-known-length
Initially with your svg I couldn't get it to work. The scale factor was inexplicably and consistently off by 75%. On deeper investigation I saw that your scan is an embedded bitmap inside a transformed group inside a transformed layer. This must have confused the extension. When I removed all the groups and transforms everything scaled perfectly. The attachment shows scaled and unscaled dimensions as reported by the Measure tool.