I end up doing the same operation quite a lot while I'm drawing for my laser cutting and I wonder if there's a better way for me to do this or if there's space for a new Boolean operation.
If I'm laser cutting two shapes together I need the outline to be one continuous line so I perform a union to join the shapes together. I also want to keep all the overlapping lines as detail between the two so I duplicate all the items before the union, then perform an intersection on the two items and finally go into the nodes and manually remove the half of the lines I no longer want. This can obvious be pretty manual and intensive on some of the more complicated shapes.
It feels like this might be a very useful feature to add as a new Boolean operation. The overlapping section becomes it's own new object.
That's definitely one other way I tried to do this early on but it's just as much work as my current way. You still have to go in and remove a whole bunch of nodes manually. This is why I'm wondering if it could be added in as another Boolean. Sadly my python skills are non existent so not something I can add myself.
The cut path Boolean cuts shapes into paths (strokes?), so Booleans do produce strokes. I know the Booleans won't function on strokes, only closed shapes that's not what I'm asking.
What I'm after is like a combination of the union operation and the cut path operation. Two overlapping shapes combines in a union to create one single shape outline. (simple Union Boolean) The intersection of between the two shapes converted into a single stroke based upon the Z order. (Like the Cut Path Boolean)
Then I'm not sure what you are asking? What do you mean by Stroke? Do you just mean the colour of the line? I only changed the colour (stroke?) to demonstrate what I needed. I don't want to change the colours only to produce a new line from the combination of two shapes.
This is the section of line I require that takes a lot of manual work to produce. A Boolean operation that could produce this output would still be incredible useful.
Beyond the Basics New Boolean or Macro?
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I end up doing the same operation quite a lot while I'm drawing for my laser cutting and I wonder if there's a better way for me to do this or if there's space for a new Boolean operation.
If I'm laser cutting two shapes together I need the outline to be one continuous line so I perform a union to join the shapes together.
I also want to keep all the overlapping lines as detail between the two so I duplicate all the items before the union, then perform an intersection on the two items and finally go into the nodes and manually remove the half of the lines I no longer want. This can obvious be pretty manual and intensive on some of the more complicated shapes.
It feels like this might be a very useful feature to add as a new Boolean operation. The overlapping section becomes it's own new object.
Mmmh - I doubt Boolean operation will give a single open stroke as a result.
You can do something similar with duplicates of each objects via Path->Intersection - break path at selected node and delete corner node:
Or do you need something like this?
That's definitely one other way I tried to do this early on but it's just as much work as my current way. You still have to go in and remove a whole bunch of nodes manually. This is why I'm wondering if it could be added in as another Boolean. Sadly my python skills are non existent so not something I can add myself.
As I said Booleans won´t operate with strokes - just shapes.
The cut path Boolean cuts shapes into paths (strokes?), so Booleans do produce strokes. I know the Booleans won't function on strokes, only closed shapes that's not what I'm asking.
What I'm after is like a combination of the union operation and the cut path operation.
Two overlapping shapes combines in a union to create one single shape outline. (simple Union Boolean)
The intersection of between the two shapes converted into a single stroke based upon the Z order. (Like the Cut Path Boolean)
You´re talking about Laser cutting in first place - I don´t get this together.
Cut Path won´t give a stroke as a result - just new nodes.
Then I'm not sure what you are asking? What do you mean by Stroke? Do you just mean the colour of the line?
I only changed the colour (stroke?) to demonstrate what I needed. I don't want to change the colours only to produce a new line from the combination of two shapes.
This is the section of line I require that takes a lot of manual work to produce. A Boolean operation that could produce this output would still be incredible useful.
I´m not a dev - just using vector graphics since 1987 in 2d and 3d.
Fell free to discuss your idea here: https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel
If you are happy to just delete the paths which are left over:
https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85multiple-boolean-operations-with-inx-pathops
This extension might help. https://inkscape.org/~EllenWasbo/★remove-duplicate-lines-with-tolerance
Link to a related post. https://inkscape.org/forums/Deutsch/uberschneidungen-auflosen/#c35574