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Why not just draw the spanner and then the hammer and have the hammer as the uppermost layer instead of trying convoluted curve splitting?

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42 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Why not just draw the spanner and then the hammer and have the hammer as the uppermost layer instead of trying convoluted curve splitting?

That’s the obvious thing to do if the hammer has a 100% opaque fill, but what if it doesn’t? ears.gif

It would be helpful if @Nico Martinez were to give us an example of a situation where @v_kyr’s solution doesn’t work.

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If you draw the wench, and then the hammer overlapping it, make a duplicate of the hammer. Then subtract one of the hammers from the wench, so that it will get a gap where the hammer is, while one of the two hammers disappears (- because it is subtracted). But the other one is still there. And whatever transparency you may choose, there will no longer be the lines of the wench looking through. And if you group the hammer with the wench, they can get the same transparency i n the same step.

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Staring Starting with the wrench on top, duplicate the hammer and subtract the duplicate from a transparent rectangle covering the original wrench and hammer. Clip the wrench to the new shape so that only the parts outside the hammer remain visible.

In the attached Designer document I used a solid rectangle as the background to keep the file size down, but I’ve added a screenshot here to show the result of using a photo instead.

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Edited by Alfred
Corrected typo

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7 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Staring with the wrench on top

At what, and atop what? 😉 a rare moment to savour lol!

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