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Rendering objects - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Rendering objects
- [Instructor] Let's look at some of the useful commands you can find in the Render Extensions menu in Inkscape. The items you'll find in the Render Extensions menu will create entirely new objects from scratch. So if we go to the menu, choose Extensions, Render, we find things like 3D Polyhedron. This you can use to create many kinds of simple 3D objects and orient them to a particular view. In the Model File tab, you can see what kind of object you have, and I can pick from different things like a cube or complicated things like a dodecahedron, which is an object with 12 sides. I'll move the dialog out of the way and turn on Live Preview, and there's our dodecahedron. In the View tab, you can rotate your object around several different axes by changing the values here, and in Style, you can control the formatting. So I can change the color from red to purple by reducing the red and adding some blue. I can take the stroke…
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