First, thanks everyone who's responding. It's great to see such an active community. See two attachments. For ship1.svg, I created a 32x32 drawing, pasted in a collection of shapes, then resized with all selected to fit into the doc. Note that there is a g element which parents all shapes. No transf...

I did find that I can remove the transform on the parent g element by going into the xml editor and dragging the shapes out of the g and then deleting it. But I assume there is a more direct way that doesn't involve using the xml editor and removing the g element.

That's already set. So how does one make it do its thing?

I've read some discussions but haven't been able to figure this out. I want to save my SVG files without any tranforms or translates. The discussions said to remove any groups. But it does not appear to be possible to ungroup objects. I can select individual shapes but when I view the XML I still se...