NRW4130 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Hi, I'm both new to Affinity Designer and new to this forum, I'm currently experimenting with drawing with the program and have reached an impasse. I drew all the crosses and raised bits with the crown using Pencil, Duplicate, Flip etc. When I came to drawing the base of the crown for ease I used an ellipse. As you can see from the photo I wanted to create a 3D effect and so need to remove certain areas of the crown to create a realistic foreground and background. The 'Crop' tool selects the whole ellipse and therefore I remove areas I don't want to and I can't create any nodes on the line to 'Break Curve'. I'm really hoping I don't have to draw it all again as I've now redrawn it 4 Times. If any one could advise me I would be grateful, Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Sounds like you need to Convert To Curves on the ellipse. Then you can insert additional nodes, and break the curve into sections. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NRW4130 Posted March 7, 2020 Author Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hi Aammppaa, Thank you. You have solved the problem for me. Most Grateful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Looks great - glad you got it sorted. The thing to remember is that the node tool works on curves not "shapes" (rectangles, ellipses, shape tool etc). Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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