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Re: Inkscape 1.3

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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?

Yes .. ish we have touch to select hold alth while dragging

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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I'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.

Thanks, that's useful! However that's one main issue with this tool, it's really oriented towards the UI itself. You're bounded by your mouse (or worse, touchpad) resolution to place the center and often in addition to wasting a lot of time, it's inaccurate. The convenient approach would be to place an approximate circle, then edit the center and radius and enter values by hand.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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I'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

Thank you, I'll try that. It's all but intuitive to have to touch bbox preferences just to edit the center of an object :-/
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