I'm making my first Inkscape project. It's a shield. I designed half the shield and would like to mirror it to make a full shield. The Shield has multiple objects and colors.

When I mirror the two halves together (using a duplicate/reverse/move) I get a seam down the middle -- no matter if the two halves meet on the exact same coordinate.

Can someone point me to a good how-to on making a mirror image that avoids the seam?

Hi!

You need to add together the two paths -the original and the mirrored one- by pressing Ctrl++ when both selected.
Resulting in one symmetric path, without double nodes/segments.

Otherwise it is more of a rendering problem, as with right exporting settings that seam won't show up in a png.

Lazur URH wrote:Hi!

You need to add together the two paths -the original and the mirrored one- by pressing Ctrl++ when both selected.
Resulting in one symmetric path, without double nodes/segments.

Otherwise it is more of a rendering problem, as with right exporting settings that seam won't show up in a png.

First off, thank you for the reply. I truly appreciate it.

I tried your suggestion and I still have the same problem. I've attached 2 renditions of my project (different resolutions):

http://miopencarry.org/moc_files/public ... 0Large.png

http://miopencarry.org/moc_files/public ... 20Logo.png

You'll notice each still has the problem I described.

I did some quick studying on Unions.

I found out once you perform a union on two objects, they have the same color.

Armed with that info I 1) groups all my objects and did the duplicate/reverse/move.
2) After the move I ungrouped both halves.
3) Once both halves were ungroups I performed a union on each "pair" of objects.
4. Once all object pairs were unioned, I regrouped everything back together.

I got it working now -- thanks!