Hi Lazur, it's similar to an unwraped cyclinder in some respects, it's actually the top quarter of a sleeve pattern that will be sewn together like a cyclinder. Why not drawing a path with the pen tool, laying down nodes at those guides, then adjusting the handles with the node tool? I'll think I'll...

I'm having a bit of trouble creating the path in red. Following the instructions from my draft, I've attempted to create it one quadrant at a time. Firt I drew the line from (5) to (A) at the midpoint of this line I drew a guideline 0.5cm long at 45 degress, then I created an arch who's height match...

Thx Polygon, I managed to get the necessary measurements.

Thx for the quick reply Polygon, as I'm still quite unskilled with the bezier tool (even whilst tracing) I duplicated the entire object and deleted the other paths until I was left with the desired curve. Please, could you explain this step further, how does the reference distance relate to the meas...

I'm attempting to use the visualize> measure path extension to measure the curved path that begins at 14,16 bisects 12,5,and 16. How can this path be selected for measurement?

The patterns will be printed and cut out for my own use. As you say +- 0.02cm is plenty accurate for a clothing pattern when taking cutting into consideration.
Thx again

thx again Maestral, I won't bore you with the whole set of instructions. With your help I've successfully managed to combine the paths by selecting and combining them individually. I have noticed that that the width of the pattern is slighty off, the distance between "side seam" and "...

Thx Maestral that gave me a much better understanding of the node/path joining tools. Whilst I have your attention, How might you approach a diagram like this where accuracy is very important. The instructions I'm following read something like create point "0",from point "0" meas...

I have created this draft sewing pattern from individual paths that I would now like to combine into a single path. I'm having problems with either joining individuals nodes (join node simply does not work) or selecting the entire diagram and attempting to ctrl+k/combine all paths at once.

Thx, I've found that method pretty effective

I've seen that in illustrator a you can move a copy of an object a specific distance (select object transform>move>enter distance> copy). This results in the original object being left in place but it's copy being moved to its new destination. The process is demonstrated in the first 10 seconds of t...