Inkscape HOWTOs

• doing the hex tiling
  • tutorial
• doing the patterns (to make it easy to Ctrl+Shift+Y to signify similar tiles)
  • Patterns are yet not a well-polished feature in Inkscape. Therer are pitfalls (or outright bugs) relating to gaps showing.
  • mentions some of the caveats and/or fixes
  • official bug
  • proposed workarounds:
    • manually edit the .xml file, and adjust the bounding box
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