General designing question

[bigjondrags]

This has stumped me for awhile. How do you make a drawing with single cut lines? I use Inkscape and everthing is turned into a perimeter cut so if I make a line it will want to cut one way than come back to complete a box if that makes sense. I also use draftsight but there's no way to import an image to trace. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm not closed off to the idea of getting better software either. The picture is for example with the door edges and headlights and grill Is what I'm talking about

Thanks Jon

[weldor2005]

Individually go in and break all the lines that you dont want to be complete. like the grill I would use two parallel lines and trim the middle out and then delete added lines.

[bigjondrags]

the pic is someone elses design im just trying to recreate the results for myself to push what im capable of. what im saying is i can make a single line in inkscape

[muzza]

Not sure with Inkscape, I gave up on it and went with CorelDraw in which if you want a single line that's what you draw. Maybe it has to do with the tool or line width you are using, not sure, just a suggestion.
Murray

[SignTorch Vector Art]

if you mean during raster to vector everything gets turned into closed paths you would do a centerline trace to get open paths, can't remember if inkscape has centerline tracing or not

[bigjondrags]

thank you i think im gonna invest into corel draw

[JJsCustomDesigns]

I drew that in CorelDrawX4 with the Polyline Tool