How do I "open" a stroke?

[WalterBeiter]

Hi there, 

I am working on a map project. I have drawn the map so far and I was wondering, whether you could open the stroke on the outside (see the screenshots), to illustrate streets and make it clear, which streets are ending and which are going further. 

In my screenshots, you can see, that I have an other shape on top to cover the black stroke underneath. This is not precise and would require a tremendous amount of work to cover all open streets on my map. I was wondering, since there is no slice tool yet, whether you could solve this problem differently, maybe with several layers, blend modes, combine and subtract modes. 

You can see in the last screenshot the selected shape which I use as an overlay. 

 

 

[Russ Johnson]

It's a little convoluted at the moment, just because you can't just click a path and press ⌫, and the Break Curve command doesn't yet work on multiple points at once.  Anyway, here are the steps.

 

1: Make sure your shape is made of curves (which yours already is, but for ellipses, rectangles, cogs, etc., press ⌘⏎ to convert the shape to curves.)

2: Using the Node Tool, click on one of the nodes adjacent to where you want the break.

3: Click the Break Curve button (the first button in the Action group of the main toolbar.

4: Still using the Node Tool, click the other node.

5: Click the Break Curve button.

6: Deselect.

7: In the Layers panel, find the newly created shape (the segment you cut out), then delete it.

 

Hope that helps!

—Russ

[WalterBeiter]

thanks a lot. This helps. it worked. But I didn't need to delete any new layer.