Many thanks for that. It feels reassuring that I'm not alone. I've been thinking of ways to trick inky to do my bidding. So far, no luck.

I also noticed that at times, it is difficult to work on only one object. Not immediately related, but still. Try to make a bent rectangle ...

The objects were made as strokes. Then enhanced the stroke width and made it an object. Afterwards, I just duplicated them. As a technical / informative illustration, pleasantness is subordinate. But I may tinker a bit once it becomes worthwhile. I'm not putting too many hours into it unless it turn...

The angle of illumination is exactly my issue. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

Yes, the settings was not changed. In fact, I also tried to treat all objects one the same go. See the middle red ones.

I am quite fond of the extension Edge 3D. But I think I have either more to learn. Or it isn't working properly.

With the same settings, the result varies. Is this known, or sholud it be reported?

Check this out: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9998&p=37199&hilit=relative+coordinates#p37199 I found that thread, but couldn't make sense of it. Before starting a new drawing, that tip was what I followed. But no difference. After tinkering a bit with capitals and low...

I did a brief search. Sorry if I missed something obvious. Usually, I clean up my illustrations with the XML-editor. Often to get straight angles or same length sides and whatnot. It used to be fairly straightforward, but lately, the coordinates have been given in a relative fashion. As I process th...

Spot on!

I totally failed to look for "unlink". But now it seems logical.

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the solutions proposed! Cloned tiles is definitely the proper way to go. However, the clones are not paths, but clones ... And thus can't be differenced from the rectangle made to path. So no luck there. Nothing I tried could convert the clones to paths. Apart from that snag, it's t...

I want to create the grid that covers a microwave oven door. So far, I have made a background and some 40x30 amounts of circles. Is there any way more efficient than one by one make a difference with the background. I am trying to make all the dots into one object by drawing a thin line through them...

Should, and is, does not match at all. No one is more sorry about that than I am. I am however, very grateful for all the help I've got so far. In my case, the multiply by 2pi makes the amplitude cyclic. The Samples parameter, as mentioned earlier in the thread, also makes for great weirdness. Sorry...

I'm back, reporting on my findings. Simarillus presented a set of functions that looks very right to me. I have no real doubt as to the phase. But the amplitude is really not the same for all of them. http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6584/inkamplju4.th.png And the multiply by 2pi ... no, that's just...

Yes

Set Rx and Ry to 0 in the toolbar. Or adjust with the handles in the upper right corner of the rectangle (path tool selected).

I could start a rant about my strong opinions about KDE, Gnome and so forth, but it would be rather off topic. I just feel disturbed by having to have large chunks of software in an otherwise minimalistic system (though it isn't really minimalistic anymore). Well, it turned out, I have so much of it...

@prkos That looks exactly like what I ought to be using. But it has a big K in front of the name. Somehow, it makes me think it is a KDE tied piece of software. I would rather keep struggling. @Simarillus I mentioned above that I tried passing parameters to the formula. I have yet to figure out the ...

I'm on Debian Lenny. I try as far as I can to stay with the official repo. But I won't mind trying out a newer version. Preferably, I would like the curves to be correct, right from the plotter. I'm close now, but only correct is good enough. However, the amplitude is affected. So far, I have Xfig, ...

I hope the link is correct: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f03ef86545a99c75d2db6fb9a8902bda This is what I have accomplished so far. I did try snapping, but I haven't got my head around how they work. It sure is different from my ordinary CAD tools (Eagle and QCad. If I am in edit path, I can se...

I am writing educational material about electricity, and now I am on the subject of alternating current. I read about, and found "plotting function" under Effects. It took me a while, but I managed to get a good (perhaps perfect) sinus shaped curve. Now I have made two duplicates of it to ...

I was in a bit of error regarding the center I am after. It is from the middle of the baseline to the opposite corner. So it isn't perpendicular. It's still a third from the base though, that the center is found.

It is of course, as the thread indicates, academic now.

I understand your point of view. And I agree to an extent. Complex figures would be awkward to center. Regarding my problem, maybe a better term would be "center of gravity", if that applies to an image without mass ... There is only one center of that kind. I solved the end result in a di...

I used the star tool to create a triangle. It turned out great. But when I tried to align it with a circle, something went wrong. It turns out that the center of rotation, is the center of the object, not the triangle. Since I know that the center of a triangle is a third of the perpendicular length...

Yep it works in Linux version 0.46.
However, the center of an object is not the center of a triangle. I will open a new thread about that.

I want to make a banner (think Supermans 'Daily Planet' or a ball bearing ring (that I photographed and traced)). So I made a cylinder. It turned out well enough, but I would very much like to have a nice round edge from the front to side. How is that most easily accomplished? I failed searching for...

Update!

I seem to be able to get around things by using the "edit by nodes", instead of the "select" mode.

No dice.

Object to path, object to pattern. I tried it on cogs and circle both. There is still one path too little to perform the operation. As if circles would be troublesome, I swapped it for a rectangle. Same problem persist.