Hello. I don’t use Intaglio much, just for my own business cards and such, so I haven’t posted here much.
I am used to CAD and am having an impossible time figuring out how to work this program as I’d like. How do I trim two intersecting lines? And/or how do I move a path or line so that it’s (end) point lands exactly on the point of another path or line? I don’t want to eyeball this stuff—I want accuracy.
My goal is to end up with a path that is like the Chevron logo.
Intaglio is NOT a CAD application. (fwiw, I am a CAD user- for eg, I
use Solidworks (on a PC) on an almost daily basis).
Within Intaglio, you can get a fair amount of precise control by using
the snap to grid function and the align & geometry controls.
If you treat Intaglio like CAD, you will probably become disappointed
quite quickly, however step back one pace and see Intaglio as
a highly immediate ‘sketchpad’ (‘sketchpad’ is probably a bit of an
insult, because actually, Intaglio is a lot more than that),
you will have a lot of fun
I hope that helps.
Tom
On 10 Oct 2008, at 20:49, dougitect wrote:
Hello. I don’t use Intaglio much, just for my own business cards and
such, so I haven’t posted here much.
I am used to CAD and am having an impossible time figuring out how
to work this program as I’d like. How do I trim two intersecting
lines? And/or how do I move a path or line so that it’s (end) point
lands exactly on the point of another path or line? I don’t want to
eyeball this stuff—I want accuracy.
My goal is to end up with a path that is like the Chevron logo.
I managed to get what I wanted by drawing a rectangle, rotating it, drawing another rectangle overlapping the first, using Path>Subtract, duplicating, reflecting one, doing complicated and unobvious Path combos, using the Align along the way, and then making a new path using the little circle cursor indicator for when I was over a node/point of the stuff I had drawn first. Whew. Clunky but I got it done.
I just wish the little circle cursor thing was (better) documented, and that there were a similar cursor clue for intersection of lines/paths.
FWIW, you can use the path combination functions to create control points at path intersections. For example, “Exclude” (also called Exclusive OR or XOR) will retain all segments. Then you can snap to these points.
The rotation snap isn’t currently adjustable but you can rotate to a specific angle using the rotate dialog.
