bombora007 0 Posted July 9, 2009 Man, All I want to do is trace the red circle with the K in it. I cant for the life of me figure out the circle tool, and now Im afraid I may have screwed up a setting that I'll never figure out how to put it back right. Every time i click on the circle icon on the left and try and draw a circle, nothing happens but dots and squares on the screen. The if I click on the pointer, I can manipulate the size of the square that constrains the circle, but I cant get the damn circle to show up. If anyone wants to trace this out for me, I will pray to Allah that you are well cared for in the next life, since Im pretty close to broke. Im stopping for the night or I might put my foot thru the monitor. Could someone please, please pretty please educate me on the GD circle functions? PS, I dont think I really have any special relationship with Allah. He generally does not appear to listen to me. That was meant as a joke. I need a drink. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jay2703 704 Posted July 9, 2009 Here you go Krypto.EPS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MZ SKEETER 4,709 Posted July 9, 2009 I have read before that some esle was having trouble with the circle in Inkscape... they found a different version of it .. uninstalled the old version,, reinstalled a different version and it worked great.... you just might have that bad version also... worth a try HUH?? then go have that drink... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bombora007 0 Posted July 9, 2009 Jay, What the...?!? Awesome! Man, thanks so much! That took you like, less than 5 minutes! I have so much to learn! Any chance you could fill me in on how you did that? I dont know what city youre in, but Im gonna buy you a drink next time we meet. I am profoundly grateful. H Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jay2703 704 Posted July 9, 2009 I imported your picture to SignBlazer Created two circles based on the picture Centered them to each other Arrange + Combine takes out the center Used Polyline to trace over the two shapes that make up the K Arrange + Weld + Total Weld jaoned them all as one peice Exported as .jpg and .eps Took about 2 minutes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Z 0 Posted July 9, 2009 I imported your picture to SignBlazer Created two circles based on the picture Centered them to each other Arrange + Combine takes out the center Used Polyline to trace over the two shapes that make up the K Arrange + Weld + Total Weld jaoned them all as one peice Exported as .jpg and .eps Took about 2 minutes Way to go, Jay! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tlzimmerman 11 Posted July 9, 2009 Along with the problems you are having with inkscape......I am wondering if you don't have no fill and a stroke color set to white which doesn't contrast with the background. Try making a circle (so the dots show up and the square) and then hitting one of the color swatches at the bottom. Just an FYI...Inkscape is constantly under development but they only release new stable versions every so often....you might try going to the inkscape site and following the link to the nighly builds.....I find they run alot better than the normal .46 stable version at least for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airstuff 0 Posted July 10, 2009 sorry, man... but it cracked me up... reading your post... And people uninstalling a complete program 'cause they can't do the circle... I'VE DONE THAT TOO... lol. I've spent HOURS with the $%@@& thing and all it was was both fill and stroke were set to "white". So... draw a circle and click one of the colors along the bottom. And there it is... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tlzimmerman 11 Posted July 11, 2009 sorry, man... but it cracked me up... reading your post... And people uninstalling a complete program 'cause they can't do the circle... I'VE DONE THAT TOO... lol. I've spent HOURS with the $%@@& thing and all it was was both fill and stroke were set to "white". So... draw a circle and click one of the colors along the bottom. And there it is... yeah...I have never done it either! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bombora007 0 Posted July 11, 2009 To all you guys who posted trying to help me out, thanks so very much. I have not had time to sit back down and try the suggestions, but I will tonite. I happen to think that for the price (free) Inkscape is a pretty cool prog. SB looks chepay but still works pretty well, but its invaluble to have people out there in a community to help one another. All you guys rock, thanks again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tlzimmerman 11 Posted July 15, 2009 To all you guys who posted trying to help me out, thanks so very much. I have not had time to sit back down and try the suggestions, but I will tonite. I happen to think that for the price (free) Inkscape is a pretty cool prog. SB looks chepay but still works pretty well, but its invaluble to have people out there in a community to help one another. All you guys rock, thanks again! Open source software rocks. Now its not as powerful as illustrator, but for vinyl desgning I don't think there is a better program, including corel and illustrator and flexi....maybe its just because I am use to it but I can churn out designs in inkscape that take me much longer in other programs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rex 7 Posted July 26, 2009 that very same thing happed to me with the circles, i uninstalled inkscape, and downloaded from a different site, now it works fine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
