

Inkscape so that it is better as a "Draw constrained" tool for 2D

Below are a few notes on how to configure What I want to do is to draw precisely, orĭraw constrained. Thing I want to do for technical drawings (e.g. The Inkscape moto is "Draw Freely" which is the last You can rotate it, and stretch it though.Inkscape is a multiplatform drawing tool (see the Inkscape web site forĭownloads).

Here's an example SVG line segment that seems to work in Inkscape, you just can't create one with a tool, nor edit the end points with a tool using the GUI. And strangely enough Inkscape can see these SVG elements if you open such an SVG in Inkscape. Another possibility is to hand code the line segment. Illustrator has a Line Segment Tool, and a line made with it, and exported as SVG, will create an SVG line object. Technically not a path as such, but an SVG rect object, as you will see if you examine the XML code.Įdit: further to the comments with user287001, it would seem there are other possibilities. **Also possible is to create a long rectangle, and fill it. But then again, strictly speaking, fonts are still made of vector paths. *Also, you could use underscore characters to make a line, which would of course be a text object, rather than a path. It's also possible to rasterize objects made in Inkscape using Edit > Make Bitmap Copy, but again these will then be made of pixels, and not vector. *It is possible to link or embed raster images in Inkscape and other vector image editors, but these will remain as raster images made of pixels. There's no Line Segment Tool in Inkscape, like the one in Illustrator. In Inkscape lines, or shapes (except for rectangles**), are generally constructed using the concept of vector paths, to which fills and strokes are applied. TLDR: You can't really, but you can kind of*
