Re: custom objects?

I'd look into "symbols" ... (Menu: Object>Symbols, or Ctrl+Shift+Y).

Symbols are objects saved in a dialog that can be dragged into the
workspace. Custom symbols can be created, saved and used across documents.

TD

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell <bernie-+xAfj8kFFbDnC/[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 29 Jul 2018 at 6:17, brynn wrote:
>
> >         Could you elaborate a little bit more about what you're doing.
> > Could
> > you give us a link to an example or something?
>
> I want to do something akin to what I've done in apps like Illustrator and
> Visio.  For those, one big convenience is being able to define "custom"
> objects [e.g., if you're doing a floor plan, you have things like outlines
> of tables, chairs,  etc]    What I would like to do [don't laugh..:o)] is
> make crochet charts.  They look like this:
>
>   <http://rukodelie.by/02/v600141_1.gif>
>
> They're pretty awful to do by hand, and there are tools that do it but
> very badly.  Inkscape can easily do the kinds of things you need for that
> sort of thing.
>
> What I'd like to do is "predefine" all of the different stitch graphics,
> and the be able to drag-and-drop them easily into the graphic.  I know how
> to do paths and such and I can make the various stitches and my plan a for
> doing this is to have on inkscape drawing that has *only* the various
> stitches in it.  Then when I start another, I can open a second screen and
> copy the various glyphs over into the new screen as I need them.  But what
> would be cool would be to somehow load that little "library of glyphs" in
> Inkscape so I could do everything in just one window and in one drawing
> directly.
>
> If not, that's OK: the two-pane solution works.   I was just wondering if
> there might be a trick to be able to drag-and-drop the new glyphs.
>
> /Bernie\
>
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