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direct painting

Sometimes quit complex polygons are required. Creating these polygons with the polygon mode is pedestrian way. The LayoutEditor has some functions which allow a more comfortable way:

conventional way

Complex shapes can be created by a sequence of draw primitives, cut and merge operations. Boolean operations are also useful.

alternative way

Step 1:

Draw all boarders as a path. Some circular functions may be useful as well.

Step 2:

Select all boarder elements.

Step 3:

Merge: As result you will get one single path.

Step 4:

Open the Properties dialog for this path.

Step 5:

Close to polygon: The path will convert to a polygon.