I improvising this frog in brass to work out a work flow to do technical illustration i InkScape.
And i don't have a clue were I'm going.


/Tommy Hjalmarsson

hjalle wrote:And i don't have a clue were I'm going.

Maybe not, but your frog looks pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing him finished

He is amazing and scary.

If someone asked it were practical to do a technical drawing in Inkscape, I would have said no Thanks for proving me wrong. The frog looks amazing and I hope you share a nice large version when it's finished.

Practical no. I'm force to use my knowledge from paper and ink era. Yes I'm that old. InkScape don't help me mush, either do Adobe Illustrator (I guess, I don't use it very mush) to do technical illustration. I wouldn't use InkScape or Adobe Illustrator for technical illustration for a customer, smaller project maybe. Nowadays I use 3D max and render to vector (to line, not traced bitmap).

In InkScape I miss a function to select all line with a specific line with, I can't find it, if anyone know let me know.
And miss folders for layers.

I don't know that you can select all paths of certain thickness. But in regards to missing "folders for layers" Inkscape can create layers within layers.

microUgly wrote:I don't know that you can select all paths of certain thickness. But in regards to missing "folders for layers" Inkscape can create layers within layers.

What!! layers within layers. I check this out on the spot, thanks.

Ok Sub layers that I can move around in the XML editor. It my cup of tee, a dream come true. Thank and thank again

I'm so happy now microUgly.

hjalle wrote:Ok Sub layers that I can move around in the XML editor.

You don't have to use the XML editor though. In case you didn't spot it, there's a layers palette (Shift + Ctrl + L) which lets you create and move around layers.

hjalle wrote:I'm so happy now microUgly.

microUgly wrote: In case you didn't spot it, there's a layers palette (Shift + Ctrl + L) which lets you create and move around layers.

Yes I know, but it much easier to make (Understand)sublayer in the XLM editor. I use InkScape with Swedish language and the translation is no god, It's not the right "program words" and sometimes stupid. I try to install a English version of InkScape or if I can uninstall some kind of Swedish language pack for InkScape. I think I understand InkScape better and deeper in English.