Inkscape

editing complex shapes based on rectangles, elipses etc

Bug #592596 reported by archit3kt on 2010-06-11

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have got an idea. When you create objects made of simple shapes, for exaple a big circle with smaller one cut inside, that you have shape like a car tire, I think that after boolean operations it could be edited like these two circles are separate objects, so it isn't a bezier's curve with handles, but two circles edited like circles. I don't know if I described it easily to understand, so I will add a picture showing what I mean. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3694/path31706.gif And when you want to convert it to bezier, then just type Shift+Ctrl+C.

Tags:

su_v (suv-lp) on 2010-06-11

tags:	added: boolops livepatheffects
Changed in inkscape:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2012-09-10:

592596-path31706.gif Edit (215.9 KiB, image/gif)

Attaching illustration of feature request to the bug report itself (to prevent it from being lost in case it gets deleted by the free image hosting service).

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2012-09-10:

Related to or duplicate of
Bug #170673 “Path tools (union, combine, ...) should keep object metadata”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170673>

<quote>
(…) The original circle and star metadata tags should be preserved, and the intersection/union/exclusion should be treated within Inkscape as if it's a rendering aspect only. The SVG code will necessarily consist of a single combined path, but the individual primitives that make up that path should be maintained in metadata for future editing in Inkscape.

In other words, you can intersection a star and a circle, and then use the star tool to change the number of points on the star, and the intersection will be dynamically updated. You can move them around relative to each other and only the intersection will be displayed. Using intersection/union/exclusion and so on would be more like creating a group and less like "Object to path".
</quote>

Kris (kris-degussem) on 2013-05-13