Fill area from intersecting paths?

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PistolPete
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Fill area from intersecting paths?

Postby PistolPete » Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:04 pm

Hi,

I would like to know the proper (easiest?) way of setting 'fill' for the area pointed out by the attached .png.

The area is bounded by two lines, part of the right inner circle and a sub-part of the overlapping left circle. With this in mind, is it possible in some way to join these intesecting paths to create a new shape, and set fill for that new shape?

Or should it be done in a totally different way?

A newbie question I guess, googled but couldn't find a proper answer.

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tylerdurden
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Location: Michigan, USA

Re: Fill area from intersecting paths?

Postby tylerdurden » Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:29 pm

Howdy,

I'd just use the bucket tool with settings to grow the generated path by a few px.

Using the bucket makes a new path that can be lowered in the z-order behind the black strokes of the surrounding shapes.
Have a nice day.

I'm using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06), 64 bit win8.1

The Inkscape manual has lots of helpful info! http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/

PistolPete
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Re: Fill area from intersecting paths?

Postby PistolPete » Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:22 pm

Hi,

That worked like a charm, solved my problem!

Thanks!


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