It's biggest drawback is that you don't always want clones to behave that way. That latter option allows you the most freedom in tweaking the position of the two elements without having to constantly realign the second element every time, and it works equally well for 'centered on this other object' where creating guides or grids would be tedious. move the object to the lower-right, the clone will move to the upper-left equally.

When you move the parent object, the clone will mirror its movements. Then move the parent object to the corner. Create a clone of the object and rotate it 180 degrees.

In Inkscape preferences, select 'Clones -> Move according to transform'.Ĭreate your corner element and use Align & Distribute to center it on the page. Position the pivot point by hand and 'get it close', then group the two elements and use Align & Distribute to center the group to the Page. (On Linux, you may need to disable dragging the window with Alt in your window manager's settings if you want to use this 'drag selected' method.Use a pair of Guides to find the center (double-click on a guide to manually enter its exact measurement). This is convenient for dragging objects that are behind other objects in z-order.

Drag Selected: in Select, Alt +Drag moves the currently selected object(s) no matter where you start the drag, unlike regular drag that first selects the object under cursor.

Ctrl+Click or Shift+ Ctrl+Click will select objects within groups from outside that group.

Press Esc to cancel selection or cancel an incomplete move or transformation.

The Transform Window ( Object-> Transform or Shift+ Ctrl+ M) can be used for precise transformations.

Be sure to select the appropriate toggles before transforming any selection.ĭouble-clicking an object with the Select Tool and the tool will activate the appropriate tool to edit the object (i.e., if you double-click an ellipse, the Ellipse Tool will be activated, etc.). They are represented by four toggle buttons in the Tool Controls Bar. There are four preferences that control whether to transform stroke widths, rectangle corners, gradient fills, and pattern fills when a selection is transformed. Scale Stroke Width, Rectangle Corners and Fills However, in rotate/shear mode flipping happens over an axis through the rotation center:

selecting Object->Flip Vertical or Object->Flip Horizontalįlipping a selection while in scale mode makes it flip within its bounding box, so that the bounding box remains fixed:.

clicking the Flip buttons on the Tool Controls Bar.

Flip a selection either vertically or horizontally by

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