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ytou can do that with boolean operations in path menu or with new shape buuilder tool
You are correct. Sorry, it's been a while. What I was actually needing at the time was an arbitrary box/lasso select. Does that exist?
Inkscape 1.3
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Re: Inkscape 1.3
#82I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subt…
You can adjust the radius of a circle when the circle tool is selected. You can also place circles centered around a specific point by holding down shift while drawing them.
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#83I'll try it. For me the best experience used to be with 0.92 and since then it has significantly degraded, with counter-intuitive things happening all the time in the UI. One of the operations I find the most complicated is to place circles at specific positions. I only know how to adjust their size and left position but as I'm using inkscape to design drill positions, it's a real pain for me to have to mentally subt…
you dont need to do mental math you can chang your bbox calcuations to use geometry preferences- tools - bbox geometry