MmmMaarten Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Hi, I have a curves-layer where one curve represents a hole into another curve. Now I'd like to copy that inner curve and paste it as a new curve. I've tried this before, but never found a way to do this without using boolean tools or other tricks. Anybody perhaps know if it's possible to just copy and paste an inner curve to a new layer and how to do that? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 One (sometimes) quick way is to duplicate the layer and then delete the unwanted nodes from the duplicate layer. I don’t think it’s possible – without ‘tricks’ that I’m not aware of – to extract the nodes from a curve and use them to create a new curve. See this old thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/17679-ad-copypaste-sub-curvesub-path-as-new-curve/ And this one may be of some use: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/148457-copy-a-selection-of-nodes-and-paste-it-as-a-distinct-object/ MmmMaarten 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 @GarryP Thanks Garry for your quick and helpful response! looking into the first link it looks like geometry -> divide is a nice way to speed this up! I see that when selecting the star and do a divide it's creating a new layer with just the star! So that definitely helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 You’re welcome. The Divide thing that MEB suggested does seem to work but I don’t think you need to select the star. I think it will simply divide whatever is there in the Curve layer into separate Curve layers, but I haven’t done any exhaustive testing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 15, 2022 Author Share Posted February 15, 2022 Just now, GarryP said: You’re welcome. The Divide thing that MEB suggested does seem to work but I don’t think you need to select the star. I think it will simply divide whatever is there in the Curve layer into separate Curve layers, but I haven’t done any exhaustive testing. Yeah, you're right. I am doing that now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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