I make mistakes. And I found it convenient working with the raw paths and nodes to transform my drawings and then stroking them to see how they looked. If I didn't like it I would just turn off the stroke and carry on messing around with the paths and nodes. Like the pen tool and bezier curves. Or m...

Thanks for that. I think, before I go any further, I'll try replacing the ellipses, as they exist, with new ones drawn with the ellipse tool. Also, one thing I haven't figured out yet is 'path visibility'. I have some limited experience using paths in PhotoShop where, IIRC, they are automatically pl...

The images are composed of 'normal' drafting views. I tried using 'simplify' on each view separately. The 'top view' of the retaining block was about 350 paths and ran through in a few seconds - the isometric view was about 5,600 paths and was taking a very long time. It also hogged all my computer ...

Thanks for looking. Here's the dir structure from my hard drive (they're the same files but I've added a couple). Directory of E:\Images\Technical 10/05/2011 07:04 AM <DIR> . 10/05/2011 07:04 AM <DIR> .. 09/30/2011 01:20 PM 43,393 BasePlate.svg 09/30/2011 04:10 PM 46,645 BasePlate_mod01.svg 09/30/20...

Maybe my crisis is over. I had been un-grouping the svg file so that I could delete what I didn't want and then re-grouping again and that produced the huge files. This time I tried 'combining' (after reading some of the tutorial along the way) and after about 10 minutes of hogging my computer it pr...

I tried vacuum defs but it didn't seem to make a difference.
I upgraded to .48 but that didn't seem to make a difference.
Here are the images (not the original dwg's which I could add if needed); [url]rw2.co/svg[/url]

TIA

Images are at:

[url]rw2.co/svg[/url]

Thanks for the Welcome! And the responses. I tried the vacuum defs but that seemed ineffective. I will see if I can get an ftp going on the server and upload them to there. I will also install newer version. The curious thing is that I could swear I did the exact same steps for all of them and they ...

Hi all This may be a strange one; I tried a quick search but saw nothing close. I had some .dwg files I needed to use in a flyer. I loaded them into DoubleCAD and exported them as svg's. That produced files of 5 - 6 Mb. Loaded them into Inkscape (one at a time) and (after numerous crashes) trimmed o...