Inkscape SHAPE BUILDER Tool Has ARRIVED in Inkscape 1.3!

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The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED Shape Builder Tool has FINALLY arrived to Inkscape! Inkscape 1.3 was released yesterday, and with it came the Shape Builder tool. This tool, which was made popular by Adobe Illustrator, allows you to easily combine multiple shapes to create new shapes.

The possibilities with this tool are endless as the Shape Builder tool less you create complex designs by building upon simple shapes. It makes it a million times easier to create digital art for your graphic design projects, and allows you to be more creative.

In this video, I walk you through how to use the new Shape Builder tool and some examples of objects you can create.

0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Create a New Artboard
0:50 - Draw and Arrange Shapes
1:42 - How to Access Shape Builder Tool
2:13 - Combine or Delete Shapes with Shape Builder Tool
3:41 - Combining Multiple Shapes with Different Properties
4:27 - Final Thoughts

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[DaviesMediaDesign]

How long have you been waiting for the Shape Builder tool to come to Inkscape?

[rufine]

Now I can say we finally are able to make great svg artworks for free. Waiting for Gimp 3 btw

[SteveMacSticky]

Yeah a lot of good stuff in the update. New lpe, new path lpe corner rounder etc. Very excellent work by inkscape team.

[maciejgrzyb]

Well, finally we have it in Inkscape!!! This changes a lot in design....

[MathaGoram]

Thank you for diving right in for our benefit. Regards.

[EJBS]

Perfect, just in time as always thanks!

[deanjones]

This is great. Thank you for highlighting this. 👍

[mibedits]

at long last ! Now we should be able to take our work to the next level

[gohny]

This thing is going to save me lots of time.

[Mabh]

Thank you for your effort and keeping video short

[berntlie]

I'm not familiar with other tools, but Shape Builder seems useful. However, to be really useful, it should be possible to *re-use* the shape in some *library*.
* Is that possible? Can I create a set of shapes (e.g., similar to in Visio)?
* If possible, where can I store the shapes/invoke them from?

[hsiehpanggi]

Shape Builder Tool vs Path Union ，What's different and purpose ? Thank you.

[lex_yol]

1. Does this tool only work with closed/whole Objects this way?

[Artiick]

OMG I can't believe what a massive idiot I am. I installed inkscape back in 2022 and never updated it since. Recently I *had to* update it cos I cleaned my system and ofc I re-downloaded it, bringing the version up to 1.3.2...If I knew this was released I would've updated in an instant lmao. Such a massive time saver

[Micro-Moo]

Thank you for the enlightenment! However, it looks like you've missed a critically important point. Or maybe didn't make it clear. Here is this thing: in a single session, you create, generally, not one shape, but a set of shapes. Here is how: if you repeat your inclusion process of the fragment, and end up with two or more united sets with empty intersections, you obtain two or more shapes at the end, when you hit Enter.