Ah OK, thank you for your explanation, I think I understand it better now.

Dear Lazur, Thank you for fixing my figures:) I do not understand your last sentence: That fancy colours are achieved with raster images on the original file even if the plot itself is vector, so you really might consider to use blender instead. You suggest that I should use Blender, but what do you...

Hey Ragnar, The original plots are made in ODV (Ocean Data Viewer) or Matlab. I could indeed export the different parts of the graph as different files, then Inkscape can remember it and the linking works. I think all the ideas in this topic gave me a good start to play around a bit more. Still I th...

This indeed looks like what I want! Because of the slicing however, it won't be 'automatic'. What I would like to make, is an Inkscape figure referring (linking!) to figures 1,2 and 3 (which are depth profiles as pictured above) and if I update these figures, the Inkscape figure will be updated as w...

@Maestral: This is just an example, it is 3 times exactly the same plot just taken from the web. I will produce similar plots (using Matlab and/or a nice Ocean Data Viewer called ODV) later during my research project. I found it difficult to explain the boundaries part - I think Ragstian understood ...

Dear Ragnar, Thank you for your post. This is however not the solution I am looking for; The top and side of the graph have to be filled with an 'extrapolation' of the borders of the figure. An example of that is provided in the file in my Dropbox, or seperately also here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/...

Should I add some more information for people to be able to help me?

Dear all, I just started using Inkscape, and it seems to have many possibilities! There is a specific thing I would like to do: - I have a 2D 'picture', a figure of a deep ocean transect to be precise. - I want it to look '3D', as shown in the examples on the right hand side of my figure-under-const...