Hiding only a segment

[Angelos58]

Is there a way to hide only a segment of a path, make it invisible or ...?

[v_kyr]

Try masking or clipping.

[Angelos58]

7 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Try masking or clipping.

Thank you for answer. The segment is necessary because is a closed path, but I want to make it invisible. I’m very sorry but didn’t understand how masking or clipping.

could you help me?

[Alfred]

There’s no need for masking or clipping in this case. Just apply the ‘Erase’ blend mode to the upper shape.

[Angelos58]

Thank you Alfred, but I want to hide only the segment.

 

 

[Angelos58]

[Pariah73]

select your objects, and hold Alt and click on Add.  Those segments will still be editable. As a side note: Using Erase mode will rasterize the result, which may not be desirable.

[Angelos58]

11 minutes ago, Pariah73 said:

select your objects, and hold Alt and click on Add.  Those segments will still be editable. As a side note: Using Erase mode will rasterize the result, which may not be desirable.

I’m on iPad and I want a vectorial draw.

[Pariah73]

1 minute ago, Angelos58 said:

I’m on iPad and I want a vectorial draw.

I'm not sure where the options are on an ipad but as far as i know the process remains the same. Alt + Left Click on Add.  Definitely don't use the erase layer mode then.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, Pariah73 said:

I'm not sure where the options are on an ipad but as far as i know the process remains the same. Alt + Left Click on Add.  Definitely don't use the erase layer mode then.

There is no Option/Alt key on the iPad. To create a Compound object you need to ‘long-press’ on the chosen Geometry menu option.

[DM1]

If you use add to combine them you will lose the lines in the middle too. Another option is to break the nodes on the ends, delete lines you don’t want and reconnect nodes.

[Alfred]

If you can confirm that the result below is what you want, I’ll try to work out the best way to describe what I did!

[DM1]

Like this?

 

[Angelos58]

Thank you Alfred and DM1. Yes it is, both.

 

at moment I duplicate all and in the first copy make the strokes invisible and the fill colored, in the second copy I’ve opened the path and eliminate all fill and maintained only the strokes I need.

[DM1]

Not sure how Alfred achieved his but I just drew a shape for each colour.

[Alfred]

I’ve attached a copy of a *.afdesign file saved with history. Make sure you have the Layers Studio visible and the Node Tool selected as you step through the history so that you can understand what I did.

Celtic-knot.afdesign

[Angelos58]

Thank you again, Alfred

[Angelos58]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

I’ve attached a copy of a *.afdesign file saved with history. Make sure you have the Layers Studio visible and the Node Tool selected as you step through the history so that you can understand what I did.

Celtic-knot.afdesign

Alfred, I didn’t understand exactly how do you use the gray circle for masking. I use a way maybe more hard. Could you explain it to me, please?

[Alfred]

34 minutes ago, Angelos58 said:

Alfred, I didn’t understand exactly how do you use the gray circle for masking. I use a way maybe more hard. Could you explain it to me, please?

Maybe this brief video will help, Angelo. Please let me know if it still isn’t clear!

 

[Angelos58]

Thank you Alfred, very clear. But then do you have to setting no fill and no stroke for the gray circle?

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, Angelos58 said:

But then do you have to setting no fill and no stroke for the gray circle?

Yes, you do. You don’t have that problem if you use masking (dropping the filled circle onto the thumbnail of the donut) instead of nesting (dropping the donut on the right of the circle layer as shown in my video clip) or if you use @DM1’s method of creating separate shapes, but nesting is the only method which works correctly if you want to use 3D or other effects.