aDesinger: Selecting parts of an object

[big smile]

This is probably a dumb question, but I have searched around, read tutorials and not found an answer.

 

This is my artwork:

 

I just want to duplicate the left eyeball. As shown above, I have selected it with the white arrow tool and the eye ball as even turned blue.

But how do I make a copy of it? If I do copy and paste, it just duplicates the entire object. I only want to copy the eye. 

I have tried switching to pixel persona and using the marquee but that's no help. 

[dutchshader]

Duplicate the design, an do a boolean divide on the duplicate.

[big smile]

1 hour ago, dutchshader said:

Duplicate the design, an do a boolean divide on the duplicate.

Thanks! Is that the only way? It seems a bit inefficient. If so, not to worry. 

 

[dutchshader]

It's the only way i know of, but there may be other ways.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, big smile said:

Is that the only way?

This is because you have all the objects/curves in one layer. In your case, it is better to put each curve on a separate layer (off "Add new curve to selected curves object" in Context toolbar), which is easier to manipulate.

[R C-R]

Adding slightly to what's already been said, if you look carefully at your artwork you can see that it consists of 7 different curves contained in one "(Curves)" layer -- note the plural form. You can see this on the artwork itself by selecting it with the Node tool & counting the number of red end nodes:

So as suggested, you will need to duplicate that "(Curves)" layer, divide it into its 7 individual nodes & delete all of them except the one(s) you want as separate "(Curve)" layers.