Has anyone figured out how to use that live path effect to get rounded cuts? I used it to round my shape, but it does something strange where it adds the rounded fillets/chamfers but it’s not actually modifying the path.
I’ve tried converting the object to a path, thinking maybe that would add nodes. No dice. I tried adding nodes to the path as usual, thinking that might force it to change to a real path… no luck there either.
I’ll keep prodding it, this is annoying. The old plugin I liked for rounding corners is no longer working with Inkscape 1.0.
For a more complicated shape. I can do corner radii on rectangles, those convert to nodes and true paths when you do object to path.
In this case, the GF UI does not recognize the fillets in Inkscape’s svgs. If I can’t figure this out I will open a support ticket to request that they start to support it – this is now a native Inkscape feature and it will come up again.
Oh boy did I just figure out a dirty hack to solve this.
I drew a small shape on top of the existing shape, selected both and did Path->union. The larger outer chamfered shape absorbed the smaller shape and the entire thing was converted to a true path. Now I have real nodes instead of fillet/chamfer handles. That’s nasty because it’s destructive, but at least it worked.
Draw a small circle inside your larger shape… Note the weird green “nodes” on the main black path, those at fillet/chamfer handles, not nodes. The node is still there on the corner, floating in space.
I use Inkscape exclusively. Honestly, have never needed to do fillets but to investigate I just tried it. After performing a fillet operation the fillet path effect is shown in the layer. If I select the object and perform a combine the path effect disappears from the list but the nodes do not change. I’m guessing it could be uploaded to the GF at this point since the path effect is gone. Haven’t tried it yet.
I found several effects like that which only enclosed the original but did not change it. Object to path did not change them. Fortunately, most were of little interest to our context and there was not much incentive to find one,
One like that was pattern fill and a trip through Gimp allowed it to become vectors. Perhaps that might work for you.
Yup, a combine (Control-K) would probably work too… I suspect any boolean operation will. The path effect gets lost, that’s what I meant by it being a destructive process. Ideally glowforge would support the inkscape fillets and we wouldn’t have to lock them in as real paths first.
I think they do. The chamfer handles convert to nodes and it’s a plain path. You lose your original corner node.
Strange, when I do the convert to path after applying the camphor effect it seems to work the way you want it to on may machine. Have you tried moving the project onto a fresh document? Any hidden groups or other path effects that it might be interacting with?
Hope it works out, there is that “clean up document” thing under file at the top. Doubt it will change anything but might do something if you press it, i use it to remove hidden clips and blank text that flags up an error on the machine.
Thought that maybe a file saved on my pc might work on yours but it was a long shot. Was thinking it might help find the issue if it worked on the file i sent vs one saved on your machine but odds are both will be messed up.
Nope. I don’t want to alter my dimensions. I suppose I could get janky with it and stroke to oath a filler shape, then pull out the resulting filled inside shape but really the boolean trick works fine.
Also it should be noted that the radius setting is broken. It’s a known bug and apparently fixed in the dev branch release. As of now though the radius is in a unit that I’m not aware of. Maybe pts? In any case it’s definitely not cm when I clearly set it that way.
