BOX OF CARD- ISOMETRIC TUTORIAL by TAVMJONG BAH

[Big_Carlita]

Trying to place the point of reference in the correct spot.

What is the difference between bounding box and middle of the stroke? I tried to google it myself but there isn't a very good explanation

Thank you in advance

 

[brynn]

Welcome to the forum!

There are 2 kinds of bounding box -- visual (default) and geometric (which I think probably should be the default).  The visual bounding box includes the stroke width in calculating the size of an object.  The geometric bounding box ignores the stroke, in calculating the size.

The geometric bounding box would be the same as the middle of the stroke, since the stroke is placed symmetrically on the path.

Inkscape Preferences > Tools > Geometric bounding box.

So I don't have to re-read the whole tutorial, about where in the tutorial is the part about setting the point of reference?  I think using the right bounding box will solve your problem, but I'm not sure.  I need to remind myself about the point of reference.

[Moini]

There is no way to set the point of reference for objects in Inkscape currently. A future version will allow to invert the y-axis.

[Lazur]

For anyone wondering, the mentioned tutorial in the de-facto manual is here.

The corner of the top of the box inside the red circle doesn't meet the other corner correctly. This was the result of aligning the Rotation center to the bounding box.

Honestly didn't read through all of it. By the looks it'd be easy as a pie using snapping to cusp nodes to make the image fit.