In that case the even-odd fill rule sometimes really is needed.)
When a path crosses itself it’s easy to get a situation where you can’t fix it by reversing the direction of a path. People who use Illustrator tend not to run into this because Illustrator defaults to using the non-zero rule and it will reverse the direction of paths as needed to make things look right. When importing SVG the Glowforge forces the fill rule to be non-zero, so anything drawn like the shape in the upper-right ends up looking like the shape in the upper-left. But with the non-zero rule it does, so you get different results. With the even-odd rule the direction the paths are drawn doesn’t matter. In the top row the inner and outer paths go in the same direction, whereas in the bottom row they go in opposite directions. In this next example you can see how the shape in the top row looks different depending on which fill rule is used. So some shapes get filled in when they shouldn’t be. The Glowforge software supports both rules when you’re using PDF (although I think I’ve run into a few quirks in the past) but with SVG it always uses the even-odd rule. With the non-zero rule it matters which direction each path goes: There are two common rules, even-odd and non-zero. But the price is a heck of a lot better than Illustrator (which is subscription-only now) and more user-friendly than Inkscape.Īnd can you elaborate more on the odd-even or even-odd feature or give an example if you don’t mind since I’m a newbie.įill rules define what is “inside” and what is “outside” of a shape. They’re constantly adding new features, and eventually they may catch up, but for now it’s a bit behind. (But a lot of it is geared more towards illustration and is less applicable to generating files for the Glowforge.) On the other hand AD has a lot of other cool and useful stuff. And a few bigger things are also missing, although those are mostly advanced features like mesh distortion that most people don’t use. There are lot of little things like that. It does the same thing, but it’s more cumbersome.) (Instead you have to use the Node tool, click to add a node, then click Break Curve. (Instead you need to draw a new shape and use the Divide command to cut it out of the original.) Nor does it have a Scissors tool for quickly splitting paths. Just curious, what features is AD missing that you’re referring to?ĪD doesn’t yet have a Knife tool like the one in Illustrator to quickly cut shapes into pieces.
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