charliebevis Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Hello, I made some drawings and used Inkscape to trace my line drawings into vectors. Now I have a page full of vectors, and I'd like to start manipulating the individual drawings on the page. They are all a single "curves" object when I look at them in the layers palette. I've tried selecting a subset of them with the node tool, as you can see in this screenshot, but using the clipboard to copy them copies every node in the "curves" object, not just those I've selected. Do I have any better options than duplicating the whole object and then selecting everything other than the nodes I want to keep to delete them from the cloned object? Thanks for the great software! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 You could have done that in Inkscape by: Break Apart (shift+cmd+K) then select a bunch of path belonging to1 character and combine (cmd+K). In AD it´s Geometry->Separate Curves + Merge Curves. charliebevis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliebevis Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 Excellent! Separating the curves changes their appearance, shading in some areas, but once I join them again they look great! Thank you! Layer > Geometry > ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, charliebevis said: Layer > Geometry > Yeah - but it´s still Geometry->Merge etc by using the context menu (RMB-click/ctrl+click) or a hotkey on selected items. 😉 charliebevis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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