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Beginners' Questions Creating Ellipses
  1. #1
    dmt05 dmt05 @dmt05

    Seems I have an issue with ellipses.

    Inkscape 1.2 

    https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/circles-ellipses-and-arcs.html says 

    Polygon

    To draw a circle or ellipse, click and drag the mouse diagonally, using the same motion as when dragging a selection box. 

     I click the LMB, drag it diagonally and release it. This is what I get:

    How do I make that an ellipse?

    Elipse
  2. #2
    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD

    Most likely your ellipse has no fill colour and no stroke colour. Set the fill by left-clicking a colour in the palette at the bottom of the Inkscape window. Set the stroke (i.e. the outline of the shape) with shift+left-click.

  3. #3
    dmt05 dmt05 @dmt05

    Ok but here is the video where I set fill and stroke and still no elipses

    https://disk.yandex.ru/i/fqsdQYjhc_oHXg

     

  4. #4
    Marcos González Marcos González @mrks9

    @dmt05 Hi. I have seen the video. The problem is that you have the opacity set to zero. I leave you a small sample video.

  5. #5
    dmt05 dmt05 @dmt05

    @mrks9 Thank you!!

    Do you happen to know how do I move and rotate the elipse?

    Seems that after I created elipse and changed tool back and forth I cant move the elipse.

    Selecting eclipse in Layers and Objects or selecting by dragging clicked mouse over eclipse does not allow me to move it 

     

  6. #6
    Marcos González Marcos González @mrks9
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    @dmt05 To move it, you need to select the "select and transform" tool, the first of all. You can also use the shortcut "s" To rotate, click again on the selected object.

  7. #7
    dmt05 dmt05 @dmt05
    👍

    @mrks9

    Thanks again! 

  8. #8
    Marcos González Marcos González @mrks9

    No problem 😊