Training : Making vector drawings with Inkscape

9 March 2022

Activity organized by the Réseau d’innovation Matériaux Renouvelables Québec (MRQ Network), in collaboration with the Centre de recherche sur les matériaux renouvelables (CRMR) of Université Laval.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm – Hybrid event (to be confirmed according to the health situation), in French. Room to be confirmed if the event is hybrid.

REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED

Trainer: André Soro, PhD student in forestry sciences at the CRMR of Université Laval.

Target audience: Faculty, graduate students and research staff

The CRMR and the Réseau MRQ invite you to this training that will equip you to create vector drawings using Inkscape software. Throughout the workshop, you will be invited to do exercises to put your knowledge into practice. Please, before the training, download the software at the following link: https://inkscape.org/

In short, here are the elements that will be explored in the training:

  • Introduction: raster drawing VS vector drawing
  • Simple shapes, outlines and filling
  • Resizing/rotation/translation
  • Complex shapes, nodes, tangents and Bezier curves
  • Grouping and ungrouping of objects
  • Alignment and distribution of objects
  • Text
  • Geometric operations (union, difference, division, exclusion)
  • Export of R graphics in svg and retouching in Inkscape

Hope to see you there!


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