Hi Scott - in your example file the curves exist outside the page, it's just the default page view in preview that won't show them.

In any actual editing environment you should be able to access the curves that are not within the current page boundaries.

For example if I open your posted file in Adobe Illustrator, I'm able to zoom out just a bit and select and work with your full curves, they are still there just sticking out a little bit past the page, it looks like this:



This should normally be the case in any 2d vector editing program that you would load it into - doesn't it work the same way in Inkscape too?

Yes, a preview specific app like Adobe Reader or OSX Preview will probably only display whatever is on the visible page portion of the data, that's because they are focused on just showing you what would be printed if you were to print the PDF, they are not really set up to display all the entire data like an editor program will.

But if you want all the exported vectors to fit within a regular page, there is an option you can set at export time from MoI to make that happen, it's the "Scale: Fit to page" setting which is located here:



When you set that option, all the vector output will be scaled and centered such that all the output will fit within the page boundaries and it should then be immediately visible even in preview specific apps.

Right now you are using the setting "Scale: Preserve units", rather than "Scale: Fit to page" - when you choose "Scale: Preserve units" the scaling is done in a more limited way such that specific units in the MoI model will transfer to specific unit sizes in the page coordinates. So you can do things like make 1 inch in MoI end up being 1 inch in the printed page as well. When you use this mode it can be good for controlling exact sizes for physical cutouts or things like that, but it will have a side effect of things easily going off the page like you have seen. If you don't care about preserving physical sizes of things and just want everything to fit within the page (which it sounds like you do), then the setting "Scale: Fit to page" (as shown above) should do exactly that for you.

Hope this helps!

- Michael