[SOLVED] Flatten beziers arbitrary minimum limitation produces rough result

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[SOLVED] Flatten beziers arbitrary minimum limitation produces rough result

Postby seans_potato_biz » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:25 am

I am trying to prepare DXF files to use in openSCAD. There's an Inkscape extension but it's six years old. I need to remove "splines" by going Extensions > Modify paths > Flatten beziers but the minimum value of 0.1 still produces a rough result (the default value of 10 produces an absurd result). I thought that maybe enlarging the paths before flattening would produce a smoother result but it doesn't. Why is there an arbitrary limitation of 0.1? The lines are clearly visible in the end result.

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Win 7/10, Inkscape 0.92.2

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seans_potato_biz
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Re: Flatten beziers arbitrary minimum limitation produces rough result

Postby seans_potato_biz » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:50 am

I found that selecting all the nodes and then using the 'insert new node into selected segment' function three times prior to flattening improved the outcome.
Win 7/10, Inkscape 0.92.2

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