Dr. Dave Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 See my screen cap - in Illustrator I would select both elements, click on the Intersect function, resulting in two editable shapes. In Affinity Design tho, I get an empty canvas and layer "(Curve)." I just want to divide the ellipse shape into two editable elements. What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Some sort of bug with the line not being real enough to cut the oval (or any other shape), workaround is make two ovals and two rectangles and separate one and then the other oval using one rectangle for each. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 A slightly less involved way is just make a rectangle as the cutter and select Divide. This produces two sections of the ellipse, an arc and the rectangle see image below. Parts moved to show what you end up with. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Late 2013 running Catalina 10.15.7 - Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 51 minutes ago, Dr. Dave said: click on the Intersect function, In Affinity, "Intersect" is defined as (from the Designer Help, with my emphasis), Quote Intersect—creates a new object from the overlapping areas of selected objects. When you have a line and a shape, the overlapping area would be the thickness of the line, so I think it's doing exactly what I would have expected an Intersect to do. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 When it´s just a straight cut you can use your line as a blueprint and establish 2 new node at the rim of the circular shape - select the 2 new points and go: Break Curve from the Action tab: Cheers R C-R and Dr. Dave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 1 hour ago, PixelPest said: When it´s just a straight cut you can use your line as a blueprint and establish 2 new node at the rim of the circular shape - select the 2 new points and go: Break Curve from the Action tab... I think this is probably the best workaround for now, but we really need a proper knife tool to avoid all the extra steps it involves. At least a knife tool is still on the Designer Roadmap, so eventually we will get one. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 If you don´t mind the gap you can take a tiny width for a path - expand stroke - select both and Boolean subtract - then split. You won´t notice when you add strokes to the shapes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 1 minute ago, PixelPest said: If you don´t mind the gap you can take a tiny width for a path - expand stroke - select both and Boolean subtract - then split. The gap would not usually bother me ... but the tendency for 'expand stroke' to add a zillion extra nodes definitely would. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dave Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 @PixelPest More steps than I was expecting, but I also have to be mindful this is v1.7. Thx for the contribution tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Seems we need an explicit "Boolean Division" option as AI or Inkscape has: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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