spnick Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Howdy! I was trying to use boolean operator to make a ball with colorful stripes. I've attached screenshot. The circle is to be used as a mask The rectangle stripes are to be masked by the circle. But after I grouped the stripes, and tried to use Boolean operator, it won't work. The layers panel is also shown in the attached file. Please help! BTW, I really love AD!!! Regards, Beginner v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 17, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hi spnick, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Drag the circle over the thumbnail of the group in the Layers panel until a blue vertical marker appears. spnick 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spnick Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Hi spnick, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Drag the circle over the thumbnail of the group in the Layers panel until a blue vertical marker appears. Hello MEB, thank you for the solution! I kind of saw this technique in the tutorial. It did work ^_^ So there is no way to use the Boolean operator button in this situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 What you're wanting to achieve isn't a good candidate for a boolean operation - the best solution is to clip to the circle, which is what Miguel was suggesting. You could intersect each of the stripes against a copy of the circle and that would work, as would selecting all and choosing 'Divide' - but what you really wanted to do was what Miguel was suggesting, I think :) spnick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 @spnick The advantage of using clipping instead of a boolean operation(s), is that you are able to edit the rectangles (for example to add or remove more colour stripes) keeping all the rest intact. If you had used a boolean operation, besides changing the rectangles, you would have to remake the boolean operation(s) too. spnick 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spnick Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thank you @MattP, I am still new to the concept of path, shapes and what operations are suitable for them. I love the simplicity of Sketch operations and I also love the functions and exquisite result Affinity can bring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spnick Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 @MEB I remember in one of the tutorial you can hold ALT key and do the boolean operation, to get a editable result. Is that what you are talking about? Or they are different animals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 20, 2015 Yes, you can press alt while performing a boolean operation to create a compound shape (similar to what Sketch and Illustrator do) but i wasn't referring to compound boolean operations in my post above. They can't be used in this case. I was talking about a regular intersection between the circle and the rectangles as Matt suggested. The clipping will give you less work in case you want to edit the rectangles later. spnick 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spnick Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 @MEB Yes, you can press alt while performing a boolean operation to create a compound shape (similar to what Sketch and Illustrator do) but i wasn't referring to compound boolean operations in my post above. They can't be used in this case. I was talking about a regular intersection between the circle and the rectangles as Matt suggested. The clipping will give you less work in case you want to edit the rectangles later. Thank you for the explanation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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