orjwid Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Hi, I saw a video on Youtube about a work around to "scissor off" a part of a picture in AD (similar to using the knife tool in DrawPlus), but the video was too fast for me to follow hos to do it. It appeared that you could draw a curve a cross a shape and the use deivide operations to cut it into two independent shapes. But when I attempt to do that, the program invariably closes the corve I draw which deforms the cutting in an undesirable way. Can somenone explain to me how to do it?Thanking you in advance, Örjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Hello orjwid, After drawing the curve that crosses the shape, keep the selected curve, "Layer", "Expand Stroke". Then select the shape and the curve and do a Boolean operation "Divide". The curve is then divided into three parts: two outside the shape and one inside. Delete these three parts. The shape is now cut in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orjwid Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TekNacion Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 This is good info but does not work on curve or text with fx applied. It just creates two curves with the fx applied and the edges where the cut occurs is irregular. Any more information on how to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Hello TekNacion, You can duplicate the line,"Expand Stroke", reduce the length of the copy and remove the "3D"effect. In the layers, drag the original line (which is always in 3D) into the thumbnail of the flat line, until you get a blue horizontal rectangle on the lower right part of the thumbnail. Extend the set back to the original size. Curve fx_edit.wmv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superhaschi Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 try this: instead of DIVIDE choose SUBTRACT as Boolean operation Quote MacOS Big Sur AD + AP + APub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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