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My question is this - is there anyway to create custom rotation snap angles (for use when holding down control and using the center of rotation)? I have a project where it would help to have a rotation snap angle of 11.25 degrees. However, in the Inkscape preferences, there are a list of preset angles (12 being the closest) and I cannot enter a value. I tried directly modifying the the preferences.xml file, but it just ended up defaulting back to 90.
I know what I am trying to do could probably be done with tiled clones, but I can't ever seem to get those to work.
Thanks!
Chris...
Rotation Snap Angles
Re: Rotation Snap Angles
Welcome Chris!
Just tested it to be sure: If you enter 16 in the preferences.xml file like this:
.. then Inkscape will snap to 11.25 deg. increments because 180/16 = 11.25.
Make sure though that Inkscape is NOT running when you edit the preferences file, because when closing Inkscape your changes will be overwritten.
Good luck,
Diederik
Just tested it to be sure: If you enter 16 in the preferences.xml file like this:
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<group
id="rotationsnapsperpi"
value="16" />.. then Inkscape will snap to 11.25 deg. increments because 180/16 = 11.25.
Make sure though that Inkscape is NOT running when you edit the preferences file, because when closing Inkscape your changes will be overwritten.
Good luck,
Diederik
Re: Rotation Snap Angles
Thanks! worked like a charm.