Ok so I finally re-installed inkscape following my new computer switch (still haven't installed cougar drivers etc. - maybe over the weekend). I am finding inkscape .48.2-1 a little problematic on my 64-bit win 7 OS. Is there another version that will work with signcut etc.? Getting somewhat frequent crashes. Not sure what is going on and it is a recent decent spec computer. Have not installed signcut yet.
My question is about hand tracing. I am trying to hand trace a design for the purposes of designing a block for a future quilt (stained glass). All block designs for quilts essentially start with a square. If you think of it, the square is the background shape, and then all sorts of other shapes like triangles fit inside the square to make a design.
I want the paths to connect on all inside shapes, so they can be filled with a fill color, to make the design pop, and then once finished, that single square can be duplicated etc. to create the design.
It's been a long time, but if I want to hand trace, am I right in thinking that the background square should be drawn first, make that its own layer, then do the upper triangles on their layer, and then merge down? I forgot how to merge the layers, because once colorized together, I want to be able to select the entire block, to copy/duplicate rotate etc.
I tried tracing the image in make the cut, but it isn't any good in this instance for what I am trying to do, and I think hand tracing is more in order. Haven't reinstalled SCAL yet. I'm going as slow as a toad, inasmuch as I am still working on the cathedral window quilt.
It's been so long that I have done this, last night I actually had to pull out graph paper to get my mind going! Sheesh!
Pat