Tuto - Flag

Steps

• Set the page size. For a flag: 16 x 10 or 320 x 200 pixel
• Set Page scale to ensure that the internal “px” is equal to an external “px”
• Set a grid

• Turn on snapping of nodes to the grid lines: Ctrl + Shift + D → Snap → Snap to grids: Always
• Snap Bar: highlight the icons;
  • Enable snapping (%): top or left-most icon
  • Snap nodes, paths, and handles: Same type of icon but in the second icon section: top or left-most icon
  • Snap cusp nodes (include rectangle corner) icon in the second icon section
  • “Snap to Grids” almost at the end in the last section
• Snap Bar: highlight NOT the following icons;
  • Snap bounding box: In the first icon section: top or left-most icon

Style

• The Current style is set to that of the last object where the style was modified
• If drawing the border has been turned off, AND if the transparency or Alpha is set to 100%, one rect in another will be invisible.

Select

• Shift: Select multiple objects

Path Operations

• Group = Union