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After you perform Boolean operations on selected multiple objects you no longer have separate objects, so why would you expect not to lose the ability to colour them separately? :/

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5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

After you perform Boolean operations on selected multiple objects you no longer have separate objects, so why would you expect not to lose the ability to colour them separately? :/

Depends on the boolean operation used here, since if you divide selected multiple objects, you will afterwards have separate objects!

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5 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Depends on the boolean operation used here, since if you divide selected multiple objects, you will afterwards have separate objects!

LOL. Of course, but the OP was referring specifically to what happens when you “bool objects together”.

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28 minutes ago, espresso said:

When I bool objects together I loose the ability to color them seperatly, is there any way I can?

You can use group layers or Layer layers (in Designer) to put several objects into one container. The objects stay seperate and keep their colors, but you can use these containers to move them together.

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30 minutes ago, espresso said:

When I bool objects together I loose the ability to color them seperatly, is there any way I can?

Well, if you perform such a boolean operation like add or xor which will combine n objects into one resulting one, how should you do that seperate coloring at all here for just one resulting object? - The only possibility here is to influence the resulting one objects color you would like it to have, by determining the order of multiple object selections. So let's say if the last selected one of the multiple selected objects has a red color, then the resulting one object will be red etc.

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5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

LOL. Of course, but the OP was referring specifically to what happens when you “bool objects together”.

"bool objects together" could mean "perform a Boolean Add" or it could mean "use one of the Boolean operations on the vector oblects". Together is a poor choice for clarity. Maybe it means "combine many objects together" or it means "intersect the objects that are gathered together in a selection".

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3 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

You can use group layers or Layer layers (in Designer) to put several objects into one container. The objects stay seperate and keep their colors, but you can use these containers to move them together.

Another option is to use e.g. a rectangular shape (no fill, no stroke), and nest multiple objects to it. 

This will clip the nested layers to its shape (remove parts outside).

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12 minutes ago, Alfred said:

LOL. Of course, but the OP was referring specifically to what happens when you “bool objects together”.

Well since you just wrote "after you perform Boolean operations on selected multiple objects", which here then for me could mean, or be misleading interpreted as, any boolean operations in general. 

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10 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Well since you just wrote "after you perform Boolean operations on selected multiple objects", which here then for me could mean, or be misleading interpreted as, any boolean operations in general. 

Fair point! surrender.gif

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