Hello,

I would like to make the left drawing look like the right one.

Right drawing is in fact a group of two paths, one closed for the fill and one opened for the stroke. Is there a simplest way to achieve this effect ? 

Thanks for listening.

You have found (in my opinion) the simplest method. 

Thank you.

That's what I feared. Not complicated with such a simple drawing but with a complex one, it can take much more time...

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OK. Challenge accepted. Here's a not-so-simple method. Use [Path > Path Effects...] [+] [Fill between many] to stretch a shape into the space between the four separate paths. You may need [Path > Reverse Path] on the base paths to join nodes in the correct order.

[ctrl+d] will duplicate the fill shape including its links to the original base paths. Use [ctrl+c] and [ctrl+v] instead to link the pasted fill to the pasted base paths. 

Paddy_CAD - starting with this combined path ( the nodes are not joined )

Is there a simple way to go to the filled shaped ? 

I tried with a background rectangle and division - but it makes a huge number of nodes. 

To fill that shape, I'd just use path operations and node tool after deleting the extra bits.

doh -- I didn't notice the 2nd set (duplicate) little paths !!

So, all it needed was Press N, Ctrl + A, Shift + J 

Thanks Tyler

Mightyscape 1.2 https://github.com/eridur-de/mightyscape-1.2

Has a join extension. It sometimes missed the last join, but I think it might do what you want.

Hello,

I found another quite simple method that I wanted to share here. I didn't knew that so much comments had been added here in the meantime !!

My method is probably using the same live path effects than the Paddy_CAD's one but simpler to execute.

- Draw the four paths, not combining them.

- select them all

- Path > Fill between paths.

Thanks to all !