brynn - good suggestion. I found that setting the grid to the 'plank width' made it very easy and quick to draw one line, copy and paste, snap to grid, do that a few times then copy a group of lines and repeat. Simple, when you've worked it out / been told! Thanks all for suggestions. This project i...

Thanks tylerdurden, have had a quick look (it's late here!) and will study more carefully shortly. Thanks also Moini, have had a look at the Eggbot approach but I need more time to understand it, so will come back to it later. All greatly appreciated.

For a modelling application, I want to produce some walls for a 1:48 scale building. I've used Inkscape before (for mapping) but haven't worked out how to produce a number of parallel lines within a rectangle to look like a wooden planked wall that I can laser cut/etch. Once I've drawn the first (et...

Thanks, brynn. The key to success was discovering that I needed to 'break apart' the path once I'd used 'break path at selected nodes'. I'd tried to use 'ungroup' but that was obviously wrong (it didn't work!). I overlooked path > break apart. That works fine. I'll put that down to my inexperience w...

I'm a new user of Inkscape, trying to mark up some cycle routes on OpenStreetMap. As I want to retain most of the information from OSM, the easiest way seems to be to re-colour roads which form parts of the rides I want to describe. This is ok so long as the road starts and ends at a road junction, ...