Create a non destructive mask

[Tom Soel]

After 20 years' experience with Adobe, I've discovered the power of Affinity's tools. I wanted to know if there was a way of creating non-destructive vector masks for the following case:
I draw a white square with a black border and then a white circle on the border of the square and I want to subtract the circle from the square while still being able to move and modify the appearance of the circle vectorically if necessary and, in addition, have the black border drawing the subtraction.
Is there a way of doing this?
Thx a lot!

 

[lepr]

Welcome to the Affinity forums

Use a Compound; it provides non-destructive Boolean geometry operations with vector objects.

With the ellipse over the rectangle as in your first screenshot, select both objects then hold down the option/alt key and click the Subtract button in the main toolbar at top of the app window to create a Compound containing the two objects. These contained objects can later be edited as required to change the result.

 

 

[Tom Soel]

Thank you very much for this tip! And thanks for taking the time to make a video!
I don't think I've finished being amazed by the possibilities offered by my new toys ^^ 👍