Creating filled regions

Hatch Method

This method is described in detail in our Drawing_a_smiley_face smiley face tutorial.

In short:

• Select a single path
• Open the live path effect editor: Path>Path Effect Editor
• Apply new effect: Hatches (rough) and click "+Add"
• Use the extension to set defaults: Extensions>Eggbot>Preset hatch for fills
• Use the "edit paths by node" tool to set the angle, spacing, and bending of the lines.

You may also need to use the Fill & Stroke panel to set the stroke to be a visible pen and the fill to "none."

This method is slightly complicated, and doesn't work everywhere, but when it does work, it produces excellent results that plot very smoothly and efficiently, with preset deceleration at each switchback.

While it works just fine on multiple disjoint regions, for example, a set of stars or non-intersecting circles, but it does not work with "hollow" regions, for example a ring or washer (2D torus) shape.

Inset Method

Path > Inset

Interpolation method

Generate from path> Interpolate

http://inkscape.org/doc/interpolate/tutorial-interpolate.en.html

Stitch method

Combine paths Live path effects> Stitch sub-paths

Combining methods

http://inkscape.org/doc/interpolate/tutorial-interpolate.en.html