Clip tool on inkscape. I thought i did it and now I'm sad. asking for help for the third time in as many days

[marmak3261]

This is an important step on the road to design mastery. It’s one of the basic Merit badges for the Glowforge.

Here is a topic with a reference to a long early discussion about clip paths and then I have an explanation of a design that demonstrates clip paths and not.

What is This Clip-Paths Error?

Clip paths errors appear when you have objects in your design that overlap each other to provide some negative or positive space. Often they appear when someone uses a white fill color to indicate negative space and places it over an object that already has a fill. The design softwares use clip paths and clipping masks as a useful feature and celebrate it! Yeah! Not good for how the Glowforge processes a vector though. That’s why it’s a challenge. When you search the topic, it generally doesn…