Every object the red line touches will be deleted entirely: Delete mode causes every object you touch to be deleted rather than erased. With this mode enabled, clicking and dragging on across your canvas will generate a red line that follows your hand movement. The first mode that dictates the behavior of the eraser tool is the delete mode.

You can use just rectangles, where you type in the measures in the toolbar, with the same scale factor you used for the balcony.In this part of the lesson we’ll be going over each of these modes, and then digging into all the tool settings later on in the tutorial. Draw your furniture in a new layer 'Furniture'.Optionally draw doors and windows, possibly in a new layer.Turn down opacity to about 60% to be able to see features on the Background bitmap.Easiest is probably to use simple lines with a specified width and a nice color.

Doing this only visually is just fine, that scan is not exact anyway. Then scale the rest of the image to match it. In our example, we use the 3×2 meter balcony, so a rectangle of 300×200 is good. a rectangle) of which you know the real dimensions of.

Adjust scale of the image: draw an object (e.g.

Import the bitmap floor plan into it, and rotate it so that most of the walls are horizontal and/or vertical.

Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it 'Background'.

You will thus have a bitmap, and we will trace it into a vector image, but without using the automatic Trace feature of Inkscape. If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but maybe not all) measures, similar to this: Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment.

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