If that's not what you're seeing then please provide more details, including your Inkscape version, a copy of the SVG file, and ideally a link to the tutorial in question (if it's a video tutorial, a link directly to the right timestamp would be best, or provide the timestamp in your comment).Open source vector graphics package Inkscape is staggeringly powerful, and is the bestfree Adobe Illustrator alternative for pro and semi-pro illustrators, graphic designers and web designers.Īs well as the standard drawing and shape tools, Inkscape boasts a special spirals tool, a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones, advanced object manipulation options, multiple filters (including bevels, textures, overlays and more), and some nifty fill settings.

In other words, based on your description, I would expect the end result to be a filled rectangular path which matches the outer dimensions of the original stroke. Union combines those paths in such a way that effectively only the outer path remains.

Break apart on that will turn those two sub-paths into separate paths, one inside the other.Stroke to path will convert the stroke into a filled path consisting of two sub-paths.The steps you've described won't work on a filled rectangle in 1.0, so I'm guessing that the tutorial is based on 0.92, or assumes a rectangle without a fill. Can you link to the tutorial in question?ĭoes your rectangle have a fill? If so, try removing that and see if the remaining steps work.

Inkscape stroke to path not working