Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

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dubis
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Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

Postby dubis » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:09 pm

Hi,

I applied the path difference many times on different PATH or object transformed in path, but this times it doesn't work my I miss something.

In the SVG file I attached to this post
decoupe.svg
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I would like apply the the path difference with the green form. I don't know why Inkscape doesn't respond "Ctrl + -"
command.

Thanks for any help.

Moini
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Re: Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

Postby Moini » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:33 pm

Mhh. I don't have any issues. Can you tell us which two objects you use for the operation? The green one and ...?
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Uktrunie
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Re: Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

Postby Uktrunie » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:48 pm

I don't know if this changed in 0.92, but in 0.91 I'm getting:

Sin título.png
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That's because the green object is a group (with one single object in it). So you'll need to ungroup it first, I don't know if 0.92 does that automatically.

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Re: Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

Postby brynn » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:59 pm

No, I just tested in 0.92.1, and as always, path operation won't work with a group (whether it's the top object or bottom one).

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Re: Why The path Difference operation doesn't work?

Postby Moini » Tue Apr 11, 2017 10:57 pm

I selected with the node tool :) , that explains it.
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