filling in a shape made with the pen tool.

[chris8186]

Lets say i made three separate lines with the pen tool and overlapped them to make a triangle. How would i fill the center of the triangle with a color?

[Odat]

Here's one way:

Select all overlapping lines and do Arrange->Combine Shapes->Add shapes. The lines turn into a single shape.

Then do Arrange->Break shapes.

You will end up with two shapes. One will be the triangle filled in, and the other will be the lines with the triangle in the middle filled in. Just delete the one you're not interested in.

Hope that helps.

[chris8186]

thanks. thats perfect. exactly what i wanted.

[EJ]

Chris, here another way. :-)

Use Inkscape, Coreldraw or AI probably and simply "Fill" your triangle. This direct filling of closed areas is the most amazing thing to use and I would really like Xara to have it. The lines can even be on different layers!!

Erik

[salaam]

Wow,

That sounds like a 'must have'.
It gets my wish list vote.

[handrawn]

You might check out the Inkscape dev [ver 0.46] path on path ['skeletal strokes'] and tweak tools too - very very nice, though still at an early stage.