I have these three paths. I want to isolate one of the larger areas of them as a path/object on its own. Any time I try to combine the paths with any of the options in the paths menu, spokes disappear, spokes look wonky, or the middle circle fills with black, or whatever else. I don't even know if combining the three paths is how to do this. I'd love to get someΒ help on this. Thank you!
The easiest way is to use the fill bucket tool, which has options and works zoom depending; the larger the area on screen the more precise the filling in the corners become.
If you want Stroke at the same place+color fill: duplicate the 2 circles and make them arcs (snapping can help), combine the 2 arcs, select 2 opposite nodes with Node-Tool and hit where it says "add segment to selected end nodes", add fill.
The crux of why I was having trouble with this turns out to be that my circles and spokes were not "regular shapes." When I tried to do shape builder actions, inkscape would tell me "Shape Builder requires regular shapes to be selected."Β
The fill bucket did make a general shape of what I wanted, but was a little too wonky for my needs. I had to redraw the circles so they would be regular shapes. Turning them into arcs worked beautifully. From there I connected the ends of the arcs together. Done!
Uh oh! I spoke too soon. When I draw the lines to connect the two arcs, they are paths, not shapes. This means they aren't affected by the offset option -- only the arcs are able to be offset because they are shapes, not paths. When i unioned the four pieces together, then they all became a single path and could not be offset at all. How do I make it into a single shape object?
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I have these three paths. I want to isolate one of the larger areas of them as a path/object on its own. Any time I try to combine the paths with any of the options in the paths menu, spokes disappear, spokes look wonky, or the middle circle fills with black, or whatever else. I don't even know if combining the three paths is how to do this. I'd love to get someΒ help on this. Thank you!
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The easiest way is to use the fill bucket tool, which has options and works zoom depending; the larger the area on screen the more precise the filling in the corners become.
If you want Stroke at the same place+color fill: duplicate the 2 circles and make them arcs (snapping can help), combine the 2 arcs, select 2 opposite nodes with Node-Tool and hit where it says "add segment to selected end nodes", add fill.
You could duplicate everything and use the shape builder tool. Here's a tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1rktV3ffs
The crux of why I was having trouble with this turns out to be that my circles and spokes were not "regular shapes." When I tried to do shape builder actions, inkscape would tell me "Shape Builder requires regular shapes to be selected."Β
The fill bucket did make a general shape of what I wanted, but was a little too wonky for my needs.
I had to redraw the circles so they would be regular shapes. Turning them into arcs worked beautifully. From there I connected the ends of the arcs together. Done!
THANK YOU!!!
Uh oh! I spoke too soon. When I draw the lines to connect the two arcs, they are paths, not shapes. This means they aren't affected by the offset option -- only the arcs are able to be offset because they are shapes, not paths. When i unioned the four pieces together, then they all became a single path and could not be offset at all. How do I make it into a single shape object?
You missed the Path->Combine step obviously.
Ok, thank you!