Divide objects below

[Washishu]

Designer v1.

I don't have the need to use Designer very often now (retired), but when I do use it I've often searched in vain for a Divide Objects Below function. In the olden days I used to find this very useful.

Another one from the olden days is Outline Stroke; I used to use that a lot too.

[v_kyr]

44 minutes ago, Washishu said:

but when I do use it I've often searched in vain for a Divide Objects

• Joining objects (see divide there)

45 minutes ago, Washishu said:

Another one from the olden days is Outline Stroke; I used to use that a lot too.

• See the Appearance panel

[Pšenda]

28 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

See the Appearance panel

... or Contour Tool https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_contour.html

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

8 hours ago, Washishu said:

but when I do use it I've often searched in vain for a Divide Objects

• Joining objects (see divide there)

@Washishu, note that since in AD there is a Layer > Geometry > Divide menu item, if you often need to divide objects you can assign a keyboard shortcut to do that if you want.

[Old Bruce]

8 hours ago, Washishu said:

I don't have the need to use Designer very often now (retired), but when I do use it I've often searched in vain for a Divide Objects Below function. In the olden days I used to find this very useful.

There is a Cut Curves With Key Object in the Layers > Geometry in Designer. Couple of things you need to do, first is select all the objects and then use the Layers panel to Option + Click on the layer/curve that you want to be the Key Object. Here you can see it with a slightly lighter highlight. It is the Ellipse.

That is the before shot, here is the after shot.

And no, I don't know why the layer which is selected is selected, I strongly suspect it is (my) user error.

[Washishu]

I haven’t looked in here for a while.

Thank you for your input each and all. However—

My now ailing memory told me, perhaps erroneously, that the Divide operation didn’t work with an open path. In AfD it does, so that solves the matter.

Re Outline Stroke: there’s nothing in my Appearance palette that suggests this operation.

The Contour tool offsets the stroke and I can’t see how that helps(?) Outline stroke converted the stroke around an object into a compound path, to which I could apply, for example, a gradient fill. Yes, I could create the compound path myself but Outline Stroke was quick and easy and gave more satisfactory results in some cases.

Layer–Geometry–Divide (when I tried) doesn’t work with an open path as the ‘dividing’ object. There is no Cut Curves with Key Object in my Layers–Geometry menu.

I should probably have said at the start that I’m using v1. My now occasional need for vector imaging doesn’t really justify me updating. Apart from the things discussed here (which I can find a way around) v1 does what I want.

Thanks again everyone.

[lepr]

3 hours ago, Washishu said:

Outline stroke converted the stroke around an object into a compound path, to which I could apply, for example, a gradient fill.

That sounds like the Expand Stroke command.

 

3 hours ago, Washishu said:

Layer–Geometry–Divide (when I tried) doesn’t work with an open path as the ‘dividing’ object.

There have been changes to the geometry commands since v1. They have been significantly improved, in my experience.

 

3 hours ago, Washishu said:

There is no Cut Curves with Key Object in my Layers–Geometry menu.

That arrived in v2.