Easy Inkscape Offset Tutorial

hey guys i'm going to do a brief brief five minute tutorial on how to do offsets in inkscape very easy make sure you don't click on anything else as you're going except for the buttons i tell you to click on if you do it will mess you up so the first thing you're going to click on is the little a so you can type in whatever you're going to type i'm going to put in rachel's name at this point you're going to come up here and change your font if you want to change your font to whatever you want it to be once you're done with that click this arrow it's going to highlight it then you're going to go to path object to path you're going to come over here to object and you're going to ungroup then you're going to go to path and union and then you're going to go to path linked offset then i want you to come over here see this highlighted button and highlight it then pick your color whatever you want it to be i'm going to do green then this diamond right here is what lets you control the offset and i'm going to zoom in just a little bit so you can see so if you click on this diamond and drag it's going to control the size of your offset so say i'm good with that right there i'm going to click this arrow to click off now you can slide your original off of there okay um looking at it say i want this filled in this filled in this filled in and this filled in all you have to do is click on this one you're going to go to path object to path and then click on this nodes button and it's going to highlight the nodes then you're going to click and drag a box over whatever you want and then delete it click and drag and i'm just hitting the delete button i'm going to leave that there for the sake of time so once you're done with that come up here click the arrow then you can click back on here and slide and see if that's how you want or if you want to fill in anywhere else if you want it perfectly aligned you can highlight both of them go over to object and down here it says line and distribute which will bring up this box mine was already up but that's how you get there then you can click on center on vertical axis and center on horizontal axis and it'll put it back together for you next to get it into your design space you're going to go to file and we're going to save as and then name it whatever you want to name it i'll name it offset1 down here save as type you're going to switch to plain svg instead of inkscape and then save now to pull it into design space um you can upload browse offset there it is and save insert images and it's going to pull it into cricut design space for you into layers already make it bigger so you guys can see so if i were to ungroup this you can see that it is going to make two different cuts for you so there you go that is how you do a offset in inkscape shoot me a message if you have any questions thanks oh look four minutes and six seconds we did good guys bye

Channel: Kim Merritt

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Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021