PDO tools and format discussion

[Modeller]

Funny thing.

10x10mm cube in svg, has different measurements while importing to Corel and Inkscape.....The right one in first pic is in dxf.



1svg.zip

[imcold]

That's the stroke thickness. It's set to 1px, which is roughly 0,3mm (0,282); half of the stroke is within the object, half of it outside, so you get ~0,15mm extra size on each side. Set stroke width to zero or set stroke color to none, if you want it to be exactly 10x10mm.

[Modeller]

Yeah, thought it was that, and supposedly reduced the outline to non, but it remained. Ok, must be stroke thickness.
Corel, simply don't measure that... )

[imcold]

Still, it's weird that the square is smaller in Corel, by more than the stroke width. Looks like it recalculates the internal sizes in svg units differently than Inkscape. Could you send me a sample of 10x10 square in svg exported from Corel?

[Modeller]

imcold it's right on that message with pics.

[imcold]

That's the one from pdo tools, I need a svg sample from Corel to see the file structure it generates, it may be a hint to what's different in its unit calculation.

[Modeller]

Ok.

10x10mm SVG.zip

[imcold]

Thanks, I uploaded a new version (explicit viewport size in mm instead px, which could be affected by dpi setting; that's why the scale is different, I guess), could you please try it?

[Modeller]

imcold Bingo. It's Ok now. Precisely 1:1 in Corel. Good job!

Getting even better. Now the lost triangles disappeared!


Only one, just one thing imcold. If you can get rid of that wires, that tool'll be priceless. Or the tool can export the look the detail has in Pepa.
Seems to me that Corel can't ungroup and then group it so that the only black outline of the colored unfold detail could remain.... Can set the outline to the color the detail is, but sometime, it's need to be outlined with black one.

On the whole. Excellent!

[imcold]

Cool Thanks for help with that.
I'll look into exporting just outlines at weekend, this or the next one.
In the meantime, I googled around and in Corel you could probably use Arrange->Ungroup to separate the grouped objects and then use the Weld function, but I'm not sure that it would work the same way as path union in Inkscape does.