Hello,

I made a circle and set the width and height to 100mm. Then I set the stroke width to 1mm. Now the width and height are no longer 100mm.

I noticed that when I make the stroke width of an object smaller the object becomes smaller, and when I make the stroke width larger the object becomes larger. The same is true for changing object width and height - lesser height=smaller stroke etc.

I'm assuming this means that the width and height values refer to the outside of the object, or the objects' extents.

But how can I control the size of objects independently of their stroke size? Say I want to change the overall size of an object without affecting it's stroke width, or change the stroke width while the object size remains the same... I can't see how to do it.


Thanks,
Connie

You need to go into your Inkscape preferences and click Tools and change the bounding box from Visual to Geometric. This works in the development builds of 0.47 but I found it doesn't work in 0.46 on Windows. So if you need this feature you might like to download a development version.

Perhaps I'm not reading your question right but...

You can change the size of an object without affecting the stroke width by toggling this Affect off in the selector toolbar.



Now you can change the overall size of an object without affecting the stroke width.

There are a couple of ways to change the stroke width without changing the object size though you'll have to scale down (up) the overall size since the stroke is part of the object. One is to use the --> Fill and Stroke dialog --> Stroke Style --> Width.

The other is to right click on here...



Hope this helps.

Cheers

microUgly wrote:You need to go into your Inkscape preferences and click Tools and change the bounding box from Visual to Geometric. This works in the development builds of 0.47 but I found it doesn't work in 0.46 on Windows. So if you need this feature you might like to download a development version.

I see. When I set the preference to geometric the bounding box appears to pass through the center of the stroke, where it encompassed the entire object before. As you said, the stroke width is still changing with the object size. I'll check out the 0.47 development build.

Thanks very much!

Jaws wrote:Perhaps I'm not reading your question right but...

You can change the size of an object without affecting the stroke width by toggling this Affect off in the selector toolbar.

Yes! That is what I wanted. I was driving myself crazy changing size, changing stroke, changing size ...

It seems so easy now that I know where the icon is.

Many thanks Jaws.

And what you said microUgly is what I wanted, thanks for that