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I know, I used the same title from this post, but I want to actually remove the trimmed objects. It seems the trimmed objects are still in the image, when I go to laser-cut the graphic, the trimmed components show up, and register as out of bounds.
Here is the image as I see it in Inkscape:
I would like the hexagons I trimmed out to not be part of the image at all. How do I do that in inkscape?
Imagine the black lines should be cut along the edge which is now the red rectangle and the parts outside the edge should simply vanish without causing anything else (= no new lines, no hidden parts, nothing vanishes splits nor moves inside the edge).
Unfortunately original colors will be lost if there's more than one.
The first steps are the same as suggested in an earlier answer: Combine the black curves (Path > Combine), send them to back and duplicate the rectangle. If there's many overlapping curves you can select all and remove the rectangle from the selection by holding the shift. Do it before duplicating the rectangle.
Select the combined path and one of the rectangles. Apply Path > Cut Path. The selected rectangle vanishes:
Every black line below the red line is cut. You can select easily the unwanted parts and press DEL. Here's the result. The duplicate rectangle is moved aside and one of the closed curves is selected to show it's still one piece:
Enable snapping to the page boundary, and snapping to cusp nodes, then draw a rectangle same size as the page. The rectangle should snap to the page corners.
Select the hexagons' combined path, and the rectangle, and do Path > Intersection. This is one of Inkscape's boolean operations, and basically what it does is that it consumes/removes everything outside of the areas that intersect.
