Inkscape Tutorial: Arrow Circle

[@krishnamohanchandrahasan4607]

To Rotate using degrees (for the section at 5:55), just use 'Object > Transform > Rotate', divide 360 degrees by the number of parts, and use the result as the amount to be rotated. For instance , for a diagram with five arrows, use 360/5 = 72 degrees. Outstanding tutorial, by the way. Great, easy to understand narration.

[@davidpardy]

Thanks! I'm developing some UI graphics and only been using Inkscape for... two days now. I wasn't trying to do exactly what you are doing here, but the process was almost identical, and so I have learned stuff.

[@gnoink]

I am trying to follow this tutorial, but at 5:30 when you move the crosshair/hot spot of the arrow shape, I cannot get it to snap to the corner of the square. "Snap cusp nodes" is activated. I can snap normal nodes to other nodes, but I cannot snap the crosshair to nodes. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Regardless I learned something. The idea of using a small slice of an object as a reference point was very useful to me.

[@gnoink]

Nevermind. I found an additional setting "Snap an item's rotation center" in Inkscape 0.91. Works splendidly,

[@mutantthegreat7963]

Really helped me 7 years later in 2022. Cheers.

[@salahzayan6612]

thank you so much for these tutorials I really learned a lot of you specially that your explaining is clear and detailed

[@googleboughtmee]

10:09 Outset has changed since this video and no longer keeps the correct shape, it converts it to a shape with rounded corners, for some reason. But there's a newer effect that works correctly - go to Path > Path Effects > Offset (you might have to click Force miter too).

[@dj4mc]

Fantastic, I am learning so much. Question: How would you expand this to 5-7 arrows flowing around in a circle vs. 4? Need a reference other than a square?

[@bioblade87]

Thank you for this tutorial. I'm using inkscape 1.2 and was able to follow to the end. 👍

[@dekibrebre]

Hi Nick, Just a quick question. When I want to outset my arrows I get distortion and rounded edges. What I need to change in settings for the outset to get sharp edges as you did at the end of the video 10:28. Thanks, Nick for awesome tutorials. I have learned from you tone of stuff.

[@angelavestlee1]

The only things I had trouble with was when you were aligning the arrowhead with the part of the curve. For some reason in inkscape 1.0 on linux it wanted me to choose the rectangle first then the arrowhead before it would align it correctly. I also had trouble with another alignment of objects when you duplicated the box and were aligning it to the bottom of the circle. I never figured out what the problem with that was. So I just moved the box down it seemed to work just fine. Even with those problems I managed to complete the tutorial.

[@danstump3686]

That was a lot of info I needed to know in a very short period of time. voted. subscribed. I like the fast pace. thanx.

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks, welcome aboard

[@sea-goatbr7588]

Wow. Every video of you and I learn a lot. Just a question. I don't have the gradient options. I'm usind the 0.92.4 version.

[@rakelhaug4791]

Why do you choose Last Selected under Align and distribute objects?

[@powermanbeats]

great tutorial nick but why do you use the settings you use im a screen printer

[@LogosByNick]

+powermanbeats Thanks. Which settings do you mean?

[@powermanbeats]

your settings in the beginning

[@fangzhouli6363]

For everyone who has the trouble while practicing "outset" resulting in distorted round shapes: "Outset" increases the graph size by 2px for each step by default. Therefore, it works better for larger graphs (in terms of height and weight). If you are having small graphs, one way is to decrease "outset" step size at "Edit -> Preference -> Behavior -> Steps -> Inset/Outset by" (Inkscape 0.92). Another solution is increase your graph size first (in this video, 400px seem enough). Source/Credit: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/49226/outset-small-rectangle-path-in-inkscape-without-round-distortion

[@JackSmith-ud9bg]

As a beginner in Inkscape, I find all the videos demos are too fast. Could you make one with instructions instructions?

[@silentleo5005]

Hi, I just recently downloaded Inkscape in win10 in early November and few of videos are really helpful but I can see it's very different from yours both in white and dark themes including where icons are placed. I'm doing a comic book and I want to make a 3d sphere with 6 colours intersecting from the middle like a pie chart. Is the possible? Thank you

[@MrFreespiritforever]

you see when you change to path stroke to path even with the lock it moves.

[@frankbhasker9942]

That’s great Nick,, easy to understand.

[@alphamercury]

Very good video. Just a feedback, for me, as it was my absolute first use of Inkscape, I had to put speed to 0.75x and sometimes 0.50x to keep up. Also your mouse could have a spotlight of some sort as it is easy to lose track of it. Other than that it really helped me a lot on my project. I also agree with the other comment, I was always asking why why why during the video but the end result was great. Best

[@ishkar7884]

Thank you for this tutorial, it's perfect! I really appreciate it.

[@Semnomic]

Hi :) I watch a lot of your stuff - When you drag and copy the arrow around the center point its snapping to something. How do you make it snap by degrees? say i wanted 6 arrows what /where do i set angles to snap. I can not see/find any info on your similar vids. Thanks

[@Semnomic]

+Semnomic OK i found a way to do it using "transform" BUT back to your way... I see the rotation angle at bottom of screen increment (15deg) when i rotate the way you show , thats the setting i can not find.

[@LogosByNick]

+Semnomic That's a really good question. I'm not sure how to make it snap by degrees, to be honest. Sorry I couldn't help.

[@Semnomic]

Nick Saporito I read up and you can do it by kind of hacking the program buts its FIXED at that NEW snap deg so better leave that alone :) - the 15 deg is fine for most things.

[@fraserhawkins4462]

Now I'm having another issue that is probably something else I'm doing that is stupid. When I select two objects and select "intersection" both disappear, not just one, so when I select the rectangle and the curve so that the edge of the curve can be aligned to the arrow head, both the curve and the rectangle disappear.

[@fraserhawkins4462]

I wasn't duplicating the curve first!

[@rblihovde]

Great technique, as usual!

[@LogosByNick]

+Bob Blihovde Thanks

[@ScottSteffen]

When creating the monotone graphic and I try doing the "Outset" step....my outset isn't straight and crisp like yours. It's more rounded and blob-like. How do I get the nice crisp outset like you?

[@tobiasschwarz6021]

Hey Dude, have the same Problem like you, alredy find a soution?

[@marupm]

@@tobiasschwarz6021 I have the same problem

[@greghalliday4226]

Nick, is there a way to put curved text inside these arrows so that it flows around?

[@Delivery-Witch-Express]

He made a video recently about making text go around a circle.

[@kaftechsksit]

looks like magic. Thank you!

[@christeanbesinga9457]

is this a illustrator??

[@nadinewhite993]

Wonderful, thank you

[@catherinehemans8874]

This is fantastic. Thanks!!!

[@LogosByNick]

+Catherine Hemans Glad you liked it!

[@aT3s2]

This is really useful! Thanks for sharing it! :)

[@LogosByNick]

+aT3s2 Thanks, glad to help!

[@fraserhawkins4462]

My layout is very different from yours. I just downloaded Inkscape yesterday, so maybe this tutorial isn't compatible with the newest version?

[@fraserhawkins4462]

Noooope! My bad. I needed to hit "custom" in "view" to make my tool bar layout like yours.

[@mardanafin]

I’m learnin so much from you

[@eugenleo]

Great! Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for ;)

[@MrZanvine]

Great content as always. Thanks

[@MsMunyu]

i was like, 11:30.. no time. Then, I went to 11:15, printscreen and trace bitmap.

[@mahmodabdulsalam99]

Thanks for sharing it!

[@SteveDockar]

Hi Nick, your videos are very good but I find myself screaming "why?" at the screen. You explain what we can see you doing, but not why. Any chance you could explain as you go instead of just describing what you do?

[@LogosByNick]

+Steve Dockar I'll try to explain a little more, but I can't always explain the reasoning behind every function otherwise the video would end up being an hour and a half long.

[@SteveDockar]

+Logos By Nick, Thanks, and I agree you can't explain everything. Something like "we're going to create this shape to cut part of that shape out" or "well join these next three shapes to create the..." or "points are okay here as we'll use the bezier tool to round them later" would be really useful, for me, at least. Minor gripe aside the videos are great, thanks for producing them all!

[@eiplank.5288]

hallo nick ! profesionell wie immer. vielen dank.^^

[@LogosByNick]

+Ha Sch Danke!

[@oceaco]

Thank you very much)

[@ahmeddeiaa3943]

nice tutorial (y)

[@LogosByNick]

+ahmed deia Thanks!

[@mardanafin]

terima kasih

[@tobiasschwarz6021]

When creating the monotone graphic and I try doing the "Outset" step....my outset isn't straight and crisp like yours. How do I get the nice crisp outset like you?