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Thanks for the fast reply, stokerg, Expanding the stroke is not the optimal solution in my case. What I'd like to achieve is a look similar to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb0_ijtmyVk As you can see, the artist uses a mask to clip the strokes and then he tapers them with some modifier. Is this possible in Affinity Designer? Or how could I do something like this?

Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to mask a stroke in Affinity Designer and keeping it open? As you can see in the image attached, I'm creating a compound object (Stroke + Sphere Shape). Unfortunately the stroke always gets closed after creating the compound object. What I'd like to do instead is to split the stroke in 2 with a sphere mask. This should be done in a non destructive way so that I can adjust the sphere mask later on. Is this possible? Thanks and best regards, Daniel