Hello everyone

I am trying to create a rectangle with a 45 degree angle one end that will stay at 45 degrees when the size of the shape is increased. I also want to be able to colour it, duplicate,re-colour, rotate and join with the original to form one unit. I have tried several ways but cannot get the 45 degree angle to stay true. I have created a triangle and joined it to a rectanle but the unit is not a solid unit as there is the joining line showing and I cannot join it with another.

I'm very new to Graphics and have only been using Inkscape for 2 weeks.

Many thanks
Maggie

Welcome aboard!

Most probably you are on the right track with "joining" a triangle to the rectangle.
You can position them right by the align and distribute panel (Ctrl+Shift+A), or, perhaps by some snapping.
You can group them together by pressing Ctrl+G when both are seleted.
Still, you cannot transform the group without transforming the rectangle-part with it.
You may use the node editor tool to resize the rectangle part -preferably you can turn the rectangle to a path by pressing Shift+Ctrl+C.

If you show us an image of what you would like to draw, we may understand the problem more and could give you better advices.

Another way to do it, is to use another shape, rotated 45 degrees, to "cut away" a part of the rectangle:
- Draw your rectangle, for example a wide, horizontal rectangle (wider than it should be)
- Draw another rectangle or square, twice as big as your first rectangle. Give it a different color.
- Rotate this second rectangle 45 degrees (click twice on the rectangle, select the rotate handles, drag the while holding Shift to get 45 degrees).
- Move this rotated rectangle above the first one, overlapping one side, over the whole left border for example.
- Select both rectangles, choose in menu: Path > Difference. This will cut away the overlapping part (and make the second rectangel disappear), to get a triangular shaped edge.

Does this help ?

Hi there

thanks for the reply........I still haven't figured out how to upload an image here so thought of a simpler explanation of what I want to do: I want to create a rectangle with a 45 degree line anywhere in the rectangle and colour one end red and the other blue.

Thanks
Maggie

Hi.

You can attach files here through the upload attachment panel.
Or use an image host, then copy the image's url and insert them in your post between [img]and[/img] tags.

I still cannot understand what do you mean by colouring the two ends with a different colour.

Hi there

The 45 angle cuts the whole rectangle in two from one side to the other. am going to try to upload an image (didn't work last time I tried...sorry a little slow to learn sometimes)



Thanks
Maggie

Hi.

The dropbox works a bit differently, the share url should be edited at the www part to be dl.
Like:




Don't worry, it took me several posts to learn that too.


Here are two ways how todraw such:

Oh, thank you.....will try both out later today and let you know how I go.

Maggie

Finally got to this and created my units with no problem. Thank you so much for this.