: Drawing an unrotated perfect star in Inkscape I want to draw a very simple, but unrotated star, exactly like this. But I can't get it rotated exactly like the image. Even using Ctrl while

@Cugini998

Easiest way: As you drag the star point while creating the star, hold control and move the mouse to the top so that the point of the star that the mouse cursor points to is oriented at the top. The top point will then lock to the correct position. Presumably it wasn't working for you because you were trying to drag the star point to one of the positions other than the top.

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@Cofer715

I found an even easier way:


Turn on snap to cusp nodes and snap to object centers.
Grab vertical guide.
Snap star center to vertical guide.
Rotate until the top node of star snaps to vertical guide.


It should be perfectly aligned now.

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@Fox8063795

Inspired by @Luciano 's comment and this thread, I found an easy way to adjust it. Thanks for everyone tried to help.


Turn on the snap cusp nodes button.
Grab a horizontal guide.
Draw the star or polygon near the guide (with the lower vertices either on or below the guide, to be near enough).
Press space and click on the object to show the rotating handles.
Rotate each lower corner of the bounding box with shift, until the vertex is snapped to the guide. Repeat until the shape is perfectly horizontal.

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