Hey all!

Just broke out my polargraph after a year of travelling and wanted to draw some vectors for the first time.

I feel like I know my machine quite well, but I don't know the application that well.

Has anyone else recognised when and why the code will generate a line that the machine will draw once and then go over again?

Most of the time this does not happen to all the lines in the SVG/code, just most.

I've used several vectors and they've all been different, but this has happened with both paths and brush strokes.

So, anyone know how to fix it?

Hello again, hope you had a nice trip 🙂

The SVG import is very simple - if there are double lines, it is because there are double lines in your SVG file. This happens a lot when I'm working with vector art created by autotrace type processes. What normally has happened is that I want to draw something like:

Decomposed you would think this is simple, eight lines:

But what isn't obvious from looking at it in Illustrator or inkscape is that this is not two overlapping, or nested shapes, it is actually two interlocking shapes:

And when they are stacked, the boundary lines are naturally drawn twice.

It is a pain to fix unless you have simple enough artwork that you can fix it up by hand by deleting each contained shape, and relying on the hole it leaves. Alternatively if you're lucky, you can delete the contained shape in one fell swoop. Depends if you need _it's_ outline, or just it's ... er, inlines.

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okay after a bit of playing around i think i'm wrapping my head around how the paths are working in illustrator and how it translates to SVG and then the polargraph.

essentially, i need to draw in 1pt haha