Knife or Scissors Tool?

[Mr. K]

Is there a tool like this?

[JFisher]

Hi Mr. K

The Knife Tool is listed on the roadmap to be added in a future update :)

J

[Mr. K]

Is there any workaround now?

[MEB]

Hi Mr. K,

To break a path, change to the Node Tool, select the node you want to break (or add a node where you want to cut the path if needed), then go to the context toolbar a press Break Curve from the Action section.

[R C-R]

As MEB very helpfully mentioned in this topic, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the Break Curve action to speed things up a bit. I have been using Shift+B for that.

[MichaelJ]

Would this be used to cut a circle/hole in another shape so, when saved and later placed over a photo, the photo shows through the hole like a keyhole?

 

Thank you,

Michael

[R C-R]

A knife tool is used to cut through strokes to break a curve into one or more curves. Typically, it creates open curves without fills so it would not cut holes in a shape. For that, you can use the geometry operations available on the Layers menu or toolbar to combine two shapes, like with subtract or combine.