Frozen Death Knight Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I have a vector image where there is a piece I want to cut out and paste on another layer based on the selection I have made with the Node Tool. Is there a way to do this in Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 You can’t simply select the nodes and copy them because they are part of a bigger piece. You could duplicate - so you still have the original to go back to and divide the bigger piece and cherry-pick the part you need, you may end up with the small cutout slit as a separate piece too so you would have to subtract that from the copied part. Frozen Death Knight 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: You can’t simply select the nodes and copy them because they are part of a bigger piece. You could duplicate - so you still have the original to go back to and divide the bigger piece and cherry-pick the part you need, you may end up with the small cutout slit as a separate piece too so you would have to subtract that from the copied part. Okay, thanks! Follow up question, is there way to inverse your node selection when you have selected the small piece you want to keep? Feels a bit impractical to manually deselect everything you don't want to delete after selecting all the nodes. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 4 hours ago, Frozen Death Knight said: Okay, thanks! Follow up question, is there way to inverse your node selection when you have selected the small piece you want to keep? Feels a bit impractical to manually deselect everything you don't want to delete after selecting all the nodes. ^^ Yes, on my mac, in the node tool, if I hold down shift + cntrl and draw a marquee around the entire shape the selected nodes will invert. Selected nodes will be unselected and unselected nodes will be selected. Frozen Death Knight and appearsharmless 2 Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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