opposite of subtract ?

[Skipper1996]

 

I'm new on Affinity actually new on designing. and im trying to learn how to design by emulation so. there was this video on Youtube and I'm trying to copy what he is doing ... anyway I faced this issue

 

i dont know how to cut the part of the rectangle that lay outside the shape? 

 

[Gabe]

Hi @Skipper1996;

You can nest it inside the orange shape, like this:

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[gdenby]

Hi, Skipper1996,

Some quick observations. The boolean operations do not work w. groups. The order of operation depends on the layer stack order. An upper object can add, subtract, etc to a lower one. The results take on the attributes of the lower object. The operations are destructive. They remake the object geometry. For instance, if you want to subtract the brownish shape from the grey & white rectangles, there must be multiple copies of the brown shape.

The process is basically fairly simple, but it can take lots of operations to get what you want.

[MEB]

For non-destructive boolean operations press and hold ⌥ (option/alt) while clicking on the boolean operations icon in the main toolbar. This will generate a compound object which you can expand in the Layers panel to access and edit the original objects - the compound will update to reflect the changes made.