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Cut out an arc (break apart?) part of an ellipse?


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So, I have an ellipse, that has no fill, and a stroke of 10.

I need to 'cut out' a 10 degree section from it. Let's say it goes from 10 degrees right around and stops at 0/360. 

I still need to apply effects, resizing etc to it, so rasterising it won't work. 

I've tried to draw a curve and do 'subtract' but that didn't work... any other ideas?

Thank you. 

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Using the Pie Tool, create an ellipse with a 10° slice taken out of it. With the Node Tool active, convert to curves, select the central node and ‘Break Curve’ to give you two coincident nodes. Reselect those two nodes and delete them.

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