Designer Help! Colouring in an object

[KerryRose]

Hey guys,

I am trying to colour in this object, but without colouring in the centre or the eight wee cut out sections. (So basically everything inside the black lines)

I cannot for the life of me work out how to do this?! I feel like it must be so super easy and I'm missing something obvious because even MS Paint can do this... 

Help!

[KerryRose]

Help Please

[Old Bruce]

Select all, and subtract the front objects.

That set of buttons are on the upper right but greyed out because you have nothing selected.

3 minutes ago, KerryRose said:

Help Please

 

[Guest]

Hello KerryRose,

It would be easier to create the outer shape with a circle and shapes distributed around it encroaching on it. Select the set and do a Boolean operation "Add". Then draw the inner circle on top, select the whole (the outer shape and the circle) and do a Boolean operation "Substract". Then put the chosen color.

[v_kyr]

Or use shapes like the gear/cog and segment tools. The gear allows to alter it's settings and gives the inner circle hole, the 8 teeth for which you can adjust their roundness ... etc. Then place on the appropriate positions segements. Select segments and gear and do a substract, so you finally are left with the holes in the teeth.

[dutchshader]

Select super outside and outside > boolean add. Place the result at the bottom of the layer stack, select all and do a boolean subtract.