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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: orient96 on November 06, 2018, 06:32:02 AM

Title: Symmetry while making a path
Post by: orient96 on November 06, 2018, 06:32:02 AM

Is it possible to turn on symmetry  while making a path so that a center of a path is axis of symmmetry ?

Title: Re: Symmetry while making a path
Post by: Moini on November 06, 2018, 07:19:50 AM

There is a 'mirror' path effect, you may want to try that out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sj4AeU3Yo

Title: Re: Symmetry while making a path
Post by: brynn on November 07, 2018, 09:00:11 AM

No, Inkscape doesn't have a feature like that.  The LPE which Moini mentioned might help. 

Or this tutorial gives one way to create symmetry, using cloned paths (written for beginners):  https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=27

Exactly what kind of symmetry do you want to create? 

Edit menu > Clones > Tiled Clones can arranged cloned objects in various types of symmetry.  But it's not about drawing paths symmetrically.