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The "Preset hatch for fills" extension applies a number of Eggbot-friendly settings to all Inkscape "Hatches (rough)" path effects in your current drawing. What does that mean? In short, when you're trying to create filled regions, a good techniques is to use Inkscape's Path Effect Editor tool to add an effect called "Hatches (rough)". To then make those hatches more effective for area fills in Eggbot plots, a number of settings associated with the effect should be changed. This extension automatically makes those changes for you. This process is extensively documented in [[Drawing a smiley face, part 3|Part 3]] of the [[Drawing a smiley face]] tutorial. Please refer to that tutorial for step-by-step instructions on using this extension as well as this hatch feature of Inkscape. | The "Preset hatch for fills" extension applies a number of Eggbot-friendly settings to all Inkscape "Hatches (rough)" path effects in your current drawing. What does that mean? In short, when you're trying to create filled regions, a good techniques is to use Inkscape's Path Effect Editor tool to add an effect called "Hatches (rough)". To then make those hatches more effective for area fills in Eggbot plots, a number of settings associated with the effect should be changed. This extension automatically makes those changes for you. This process is extensively documented in [[Drawing a smiley face, part 3|Part 3]] of the [[Drawing a smiley face]] tutorial. Please refer to that tutorial for step-by-step instructions on using this extension as well as this hatch feature of Inkscape. | ||
Revision as of 23:04, 6 October 2010
<<< Eggmazing || Preset hatch for fills || Reorder Paths for Speed >>>
The "Preset hatch for fills" extension applies a number of Eggbot-friendly settings to all Inkscape "Hatches (rough)" path effects in your current drawing. What does that mean? In short, when you're trying to create filled regions, a good techniques is to use Inkscape's Path Effect Editor tool to add an effect called "Hatches (rough)". To then make those hatches more effective for area fills in Eggbot plots, a number of settings associated with the effect should be changed. This extension automatically makes those changes for you. This process is extensively documented in Part 3 of the Drawing a smiley face tutorial. Please refer to that tutorial for step-by-step instructions on using this extension as well as this hatch feature of Inkscape.
See also Creating filled regions, for much more about the process of filling in solid areas with the Eggbot.
<<< Eggmazing || Preset hatch for fills || Reorder Paths for Speed >>>
