It will, however, ignore groups (but works with objects that are in different layers, fortunately), so you'd still have to do the ungrouping of all objects first.Personally I would prefer to draw the iPhone interface as a vector from scratch, as it would give me a lot of control over the finished output. com/Moini/ inkscape- extensions- multi-boolįortunately, there is an extension that allows you to to Path -> Difference for many objects at once.

It will, however, ignore groups (but works with objects that are in different layers, fortunately), so you'd still have to do the ungrouping of all objects first. So if you have 100 layers, with 100+ objects, you would need to repeat the process for each path in each layer, using Path -> Difference to cut off the things that go over the border.įortunately, there is an extension that allows you to to Path -> Difference for many objects at once. However, some of the boolean operations in Inkscape 0.91 only work with a single path at once. Https:/ /inkscapetutori als.org/ 2014/04/ 22/inkscape- faq-how- do-i-crop- in-inkscape/ #boolean I guess that will be necessary, because a cutting machine/laser etching machine usually doesn't care about masks or clips, that do not 'destroy' the data, but only hide it, as they aren't often very advanced in their vector data interpretation. To cut things (really cut, not just make things outside a specific area invisible, as can be done with a clip path), you will need to use the boolean operations, mainly Path -> Difference and / or Path -> Cut Path and / or Path -> Division. (but if you ever want to edit the file again, with layers, please save a backup before you start this)

If you then want to remove the groups that previously were 'layers' for Inkscape, then open the file with Inkscape, select everything, and hit Ctrl+U until the status line does no longer say that there are any groups in the selection. This will put everything that previously was in a 'layer' for Inkscape into a normal SVG group (from Inkscape's perspective). Open the SVG file with a text editor, and remove all occurrances of

If you still want to / need to do this, I would recommend the following, fast way to do it: The machine will not know the difference between a group and a layer, this is just an Inkscape-internal distinction. If the machine you have can handle groups, then it's not necessary to put everything into the same group/layer.

A layer in Inkscape is just a group in SVG.

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