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Tips for making infrastructure diagrams in Inkscape.

Learn some important hotkeys:

  • Esc Deselect
  • S Select object mode. E.g. for dragging or scaling subnets.
  • N Select nodes mode. This is userful for manipulating rectangles and lines with arrows.
  • B Draw lines. Use this to draw lines and arrows.
  • T Create or Edit Text's.

Disable Automatic Stroke width and corner radius

You don't want to border widths to scale when you change subnets etc...

(see webm video)

Open the symbols tab as a seperate window

This safes you space. You can do this with other panels you often use. When diagramming the Fill and Stroke and Layer panels our often used.

(see webm video)

Inkscape has dark theme's

For all you vampires out there... Inkscape has dark mode themes.

Lines with straigh corners and arrows

Use the Draw lines tools to create connection lines and arrow.

How is works:

  1. click B to select the draw tool.

  2. With you mouse do a short click at the starting point (can always be moved)

  3. Keep the CTRL+Shift keys pressed while moving your mouse to the destination. The CTRL+Shift keys makes it easier to create 100% horizontal or 100 vertical lines.

  4. At destination do another short click.

  5. Repeat this with new nodes. When finished click Enter

  6. Afterwards add arrow points in the stroke style panel.

Webm video showing how to create a line with arrow.