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NightCabbage

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  1. Thank you Garry, yes, that is exactly what I was trying to ask - not how to create any shapes, but how to separate existing shapes that are a single curve. I was just setting up a simple example to demonstrate the problem. Generally, we're importing SVG files, but they always have a single curve representing the entire set of many shapes. I will attach one such svg file. Now I'm not a huge fan of Adobe software, but when I import an SVG there, I can select each vector shape individually. Whereas in Designer 2 when I try to separate, I get this... I understand that the object is simply a list of curve interacting with eachother to create shapes and holes in shapes, etc. But I am unsure how I can separate the different "shapes" without having to spend a lot of time on the individual pieces. In this example, there are only 2 "shapes" - the phone and the chat bubble. But sometimes there may be 20 or 30. I don't want to have to cut them out individually, or worse, re-apply boolean subtracts on multiple curves to re-create holes, etc. I hope that all makes sense, happy to provide any additional information or examples. Thanks sms.svg
  2. Hello I am new to Affinity Designer 2, and am trying to do something very simple with it but am surprised it doesn't seem to be able to actully do it... maybe I am missing something. To set up a very basic scenario to show my problem... Create a large circle Create a medium circle inside that one Select them both and do a "Subtract" Create a small circle insde the hole Select them both and do an "Add" (I've added an image to show the curve shape I'm talking about) Now, how can you separate the small circle and the large ring into 2 separate "objects" or "curves"? The only option I seem to have is to "Separate curves" or "Divide" but both of these appear to do the same thing in this case, which is "wrong"... and that is to give me 3 filled circles, instead of 1 large ring and 1 small circle. In other software, either the 2 shapes (ring and circle) are already treated as 2 separate objects, or at a minimuim, they are easily separated with an ungroup or break apart operation. ie. the software knows that these are in fact 2 non-touching vector shapes, even if they're technically currently stored in the same curve. Obviously this example is trivial, but sometimes I'm importing SVGs with a hundred vector shapes (often nested, with holes, etc.), and Designer 2 treats them as the same single curve, and I can't spend hours separating the pieces... I feel like this is such basic and foundational functionality that I must be missing something? Thanks!
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