I have a hollow closed path created by taking two closed paths and applying Path > Difference. I know the two paths are "identical", but one is an inset of the other. (This could be done with one of the Path > Offset tools, but that ends up creating curves I don't want, so I created this one by duplicating my closed path, giving the duplicate a wide stroke, Path > Stroke to Path, Path > Break Apart, delete outer path.)
I want to take matched pairs of these points and "cut" the shape into pieces. I've marked where I want the cuts with short red lines
Is there a straightforward way to make these cuts, yielding 4 non-hollow paths that together make up the original hollow path.
I can use Path > Cut Path with something like this, using the red path for the cut...
But that breaks the hollow path into the two original paths and I end up spending a bunch of time going node-pair by node-pair re-stitching a bunch of open paths back into closed ones.
Here's after I've make 2 of the 4 cuts and stitched together one of the 4 closed paths I eventually want. (I pulled it apart for illustrative purposes; they were all adjacent on initial cut as expected.)
All of this feels suspiciously fiddly, like I'm manually doing something that Inkscape can do for me. I'd hoped that in "Edit paths by nodes" I could select the two relevant nodes and one of the toolbar buttons would break each of the nodes into two, then link the pairs of nodes to each other, re-closing path (and possibly splitting the path into two paths).
"Break path at selected nodes" followed by selecting pairs of nodes and "Join selected nodes with a new segment" seems promising, but is still what seems like a lot of busy work, and I don't know how I can reliably select the right pairs so I get two ends as opposed to an overlap like this:
Is there an easy, or at least easier, way to accomplish what I want?
