Draw a shape (box, circle..) with border only

[hwang02]

I am trying to draw a rectangle with borders only with no fills.  For the life of me, I could not figure out how to do it with Inkscape.  I watched Joshua Redin's video on these tools.  They are interesting things to learn but as far as I can see there is nothing about drawing the borders. I feel destroyed after many hours' struggling.  This seems to me is one of the most useful things people use to highlight any content of a document, a red circle, a green box.  And I was not able to draw the border.  If someone could go through the trouble to show me how, I would greatly appreciated.


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[brynn]

Ooohh, I see what happened!  You have run into the problem which this little tutorial explains how to fix. 

https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=18

I've been talking to developers (over some time now), and trying to get them to remove from Inkscape the possibility of drawing invisible objects.  I truly hope they can put it into the new version 1.0 which is coming soon.

[hwang02]

Thank you, brinn.  This does solve my problem.  I hope I will not be falling in the trap again.  I do think the developers need to make it more transparent. 
Hsin

[modelshipworker]

(1) Draw any shapes
(2) Make sure the shapes are toggles by click
(3) Fill : X
(4) Stroke paint : grey box just right of the X
(5) Stroke style : higher than 0.01mm or 1mm