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In this video I'm tracing the shape over, using the pen tool.
Action starts from 2:50.
First setting the pen tool to linear segments only mode, and to shape-none.
Next, drawing a quarter of the object, and creating mirrored duplicants; combining them together at the finish.
Using key combinations wherever possible/familiar with, as it results in a more efficient drawing process.
Those are Ctrl+Z for undoing,
holding Ctrl to lay down horizontal and vertical path segments with the pen tool,
holding Ctrl to move nodes horizontally with the node tool,
End for moving object to the bottom
Ctrl+A for selecting all
! for inverting selection
Ctrl+D for Duplicating
Shift+Clicking to deselect object
H for Horizontal and V for vertical mirroring,
Ctrl+mouse wheel scrolling for zooming.
Pretty much you can't go wrong if you hold Ctrl most of the time.
At 3:19 the first part of the object is drawn, then needed to adjust its size to the original.
As there were more objects in the position, was checking which one to use, which one to snap to. Ended up moving all nodes selected and snapping to the corner node.
Was holding Ctrl to move selected nodes horizontally/vertically.
From 4:40, moved the path so it got easier to make duplicants without dealing with objects below.
Duplicating object (Ctrl+D), mirroring object (H), moving it aside (holding Ctrl while dragging with the select tool).
At 5:10, selecting two end nodes and connecting them with a new segment.
Then duplicating this object, mirroring vertically (V), moving the duplicant until it snaps with the end node.
At 5:30 rectangle selecting the two end nodes and merging them to one.
From 5:40, to adjust the width, moving the right half to position -again, to prevent misplacement, used snapping to guide line intersection instead of the original nodes below, even moving them away a bit.
To delete the guide lines, held Del while hovering them over with the node tool.
From 7:00, was trying to select all except the new path and the dashed one in the middle.
As the new path was at the top, had to move it to the bottom (End) for easier selecting.
Selecting all (Ctrl+A), and deselecting the two objects to be kept by Shift+Clicking, and deleting the rest (Del).
This process could be done also by selecting the two object first by Shift+Clicking, then inverting the selection (!).
Also Alt+Click can be used to select objects under instead of moving the top object to the bottom.
At 7:45, snapping the dashed line's end nodes to the midpoints below.
There is an issue with the snapping there, snapping to smooth nodes needs to be allowed when the nodes are aligned perfectly in a line.
At 7:57 moving the rectangle selection box handles while holding Shift. That results in scaling from the selection boxes origin.
After that copying object and pasting the style (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Shift+V) to ensure the same strokes are used, and removing the dashing at the end.
Not sure what you wanted to scale. For proportional scaling you need to toggle in -close- the padlock icon between the spinboxes at the top.
Attaching the result of the drawing in the video.
