Affinity Designer How To Cut Out This Space

[zwilson]

What I'm trying to do is just keep the space in between the two slanted rectangles. I converted the ellipse to a curve then added nodes at the intersections of the rectangles and the curve, selected all nodes and broke the curve. I thought this would leave me with the curve cut into sections and I could just delete the large sections of the curve leaving just the small section between the rectangles. However, I wind up with no selectable sections at all.

[firstdefence]

Works for me, upload your file and lets take a look to see if we can work out what has gone wrong.

Break curve to leave section.afphoto

[zwilson]

Here's the file. I works if I delete the resulting curves from the layer panel, but I usually just select the segment or segments I want to delete with the move tool and then press delete. No idea why it's behaving this way now.

Well never mind I closed this file out reopened it and it's working as expected. Don't know why it wasn't working before that but it's working now.

test.afdesign

[firstdefence]

@zwilson Glitch in the matrix no doubt, glad you got it working.