I also found-that triple-clicking would select the whole thing. Making it into a component sounds like the right thing to do. I’m not sure what was up with it, but as I played with the program more, it was clear that it was not hilighting single clicks at all, even though it was actually selecting things. Select and delete all the paths that lay outside the circle.Restarting the program resolved the problem with lack of selection hilight. Select both combined path and circle, and do Path > Cut.ĭo Edit > Paste in Place to bring back the circle which was be consumed in the boolean operation. Here's a slightly different approach which keeps the lines and circles as complete paths instead of separate shapes,Ĭombine the drawing paths, but keep the circle as a separate path on topĬopy the circle (you''ll need this later) Also note that you may have to deal with the text items separately. Not entirely sure if it will give you the result you want, but I suppose there's no harm trying. If your laser cutter requires one path, you could select all and combine the paths again. Select and delete all the pieces outside cutting circle. The result will divide everything into separate pieces. Select everything, then do Path > Division Ctrl/Command+ K.This example below shows the combined paths filled grey, and the large rectangle filled red.

Make a combined path of the drawing plus the circle, by using Path > Combine Ctrl/Command+ K.ĭraw a large filled rectangle, move it under the combined paths using Object > Lower to bottom End. Make sure everything is ungrouped, and there is no clipping mask just a regular circle instead to be used to cut everything out. This can be done in Inkscape relatively easily, and the following method is similar to how the Shape Builder tool works in Adobe Illustrator.

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