Am sorry, but can anyone explain what Stroke to Path means?
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Stroke to path
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Re: Stroke to path
This applies to vector drawing programs like Inkscape, Illustrator and Corel Draw. In these programs a line has a path or outline (it's shape and length) and a stroke (it's thickness, color, whether it is solid or dashed, etc.). In normal mode you see both, in outline mode you see just the path. SCAL doesn't recognize the stroke attribute, just what you see in outline view. The blade just follows the path, so thickness, color, etc. don't matter.
When you want to cut what is seen in the normal view, like thick lines, then you can do a stroke to path operation and the program will draw new paths where the stroke boundaries are, normally the inside and outside of the line width, or all the way around each dash of a dashed line. This allows us to go from a single line to a double line (usually we are trying to do the opposite, though). Before SCAL could do open paths and apply line styles this was the only way to cut a dashed line. There isn't going to be nearly as much use for it now.
When you want to cut what is seen in the normal view, like thick lines, then you can do a stroke to path operation and the program will draw new paths where the stroke boundaries are, normally the inside and outside of the line width, or all the way around each dash of a dashed line. This allows us to go from a single line to a double line (usually we are trying to do the opposite, though). Before SCAL could do open paths and apply line styles this was the only way to cut a dashed line. There isn't going to be nearly as much use for it now.