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Understanding shapes and paths - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Understanding shapes and paths
- [Instructor] Inkscape has dedicated tools to help you draw things like rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and stars. And these objects are very different from paths that you can draw that just look like rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and stars. So, in this movie, we'll look at how shapes work and how you can convert shapes to regular paths if you need to. If you look in Inkscape's toolbox, in the upper third, there are a series of tools that you can use to draw shapes. Things like rectangles, 3D boxes, ellipses, stars, polygons, and spirals. For now, let's set aside the 3D box tool since it has some unique features and we'll focus on the others. With each of these tools, you can make shapes with the formatting you want and then you can modify the shapes with controls that appear on the actual shapes. To choose the formatting of a shape, double-click on the tool. So I'll double-click on the rectangle tool. And the…
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Drawing with the Pen tool8m 39s
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Using the Node tool4m 52s
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Understanding node types4m 13s
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Joining and splitting paths1m 44s
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Drawing with the Pencil tool3m 6s
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Understanding shapes and paths4m 36s
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Creating spirals2m 40s
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Creating rectangles4m 35s
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Creating ellipses2m 25s
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Creating stars and polygons2m 10s
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Drawing with the Calligraphy tool6m 5s
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Creating diagram connectors4m 34s
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Erasing paths2m 58s
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