Hello

I have been searching a lot on the internet, to figure out how you can draw a figure by plotting some points. Is this really not possible in Inkscape?

eg. a square with the coordinates (0,0) (1,0) (0,1) (1,1) and then join them by the bezier tool.

Thanks

Hi.

That is exactly how it is done in inkscape by default -the use of lowercase z and m.
If you want to avoid using a notepad to edit the svg, then you can open the xml editor in inkscape (Shift+Ctrl+X), and set path's d parametres, like
m 0,0 1,0 0,1 -1,0 z for a 1/1 px sized square.

Hello,

Do you know SVG format?

A path is drawn using points, like this:
http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/path-el ... th-example

There are even extensions for drawing functions

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... ionPlotter

Or maybe yo want to plot a set of x,y points. If this is the case I recomend you to study the information in the first link. The geometric inofrmation of the points to be drawn is achieved using the " d " attribute

P.D.: Maybe what you want is to something like is done in ACAD, where each point is inserted interactively. There is no similar option in Inkscape

Hi

For plotting just a few data points the manual method outlined by Lazur URH is OK but for
larger data sets or repetitive tasks (like plotting a ship's GPS track daily) I use the excellent open source program VEUSZ; http://home.gna.org/veusz/
I have successfully plotted from CSV (Comma Separated Values) files containing millions of datapoints (plotting land contours for making maps).
Veusz will output to many different formats including SVG.

Good Luck.
RGDS
Ragnar