Thanx All. I forgot to mention that I am completely new to this Most of your replies are way over my head, so I'm packing it in. I tried many tutorials on Youtube and those in the manual, but I'm not getting anywhere.
Cheerrs and thanx again.

Hi All. I'm not sure that Inkscape is the right program for what I need to do, which is, to illustrate my book on basic electricity. I need to do some very basic line drawings. No colors, no grey shades, nothing fancy. Lets say I want to show a wire (two parallel straight lines) through a toroid (tw...

Many thanx Brynn.
Cheers.
Martin.

Many thanx Brynn. You were right about the opacity. Once I moved that over, my rectangle was there. Stroke was still missing, but after a lot of playing around I found it was the thickness which was at zero. Then I had rounded corners, I kept on selecting the sharp corner in the stroke style box, bu...

Hi All. I hope somebody can help. I am really very new here. Until yesterday, I have never used a vector graphics program. So please excuse stupid questions. I did the "Basic" tutorial on the Inkspace website. No Problems. Then I went to the next chapter on "Shapes" "shapes ...