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Chopping bits off closed paths
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| Nick Bell 2005-10-22, 10:14 pm |
| What's the easiest way of achieving the result at
http://peterbell.net/images/path.jpg? - i.e. chopping bits out of the
outline of a filled object.
I did my version using clipping shapes - is this the best way of doing it?
Many thanks, I'm new to this
Nick
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| Try the scissors tool, Nick.
Select your shape and click the scissors tool. Then click the node[s] where
you want to delete the line segment between them.
http://www.ipowerweb.com/build/soft...ols_2/10023.htm
__Gem
"Nick Bell" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> What's the easiest way of achieving the result at
> http://peterbell.net/images/path.jpg? - i.e. chopping bits out of the
> outline of a filled object.
>
> I did my version using clipping shapes - is this the best way of doing it?
>
> Many thanks, I'm new to this
>
> Nick
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| Nick Bell 2005-10-23, 6:14 am |
| Gem wrote:
> Try the scissors tool, Nick.
> Select your shape and click the scissors tool. Then click the node[s] where
> you want to delete the line segment between them.
Thanks Gem, however that messes up the fills (as one might expect).
To rephrase the problem, is it possible to recolour parts of a path,
maintaining the whole as a closed path allowing it to be easily filled?
Nick
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| oh, ok I see what you mean.
If you draw the object with the pen as a single closed path you can give the
path a wide stroke with the edge color.
Then select the object and go to Object>Expand and expand just the stroke.
This will separate the path into 2 objects: the stroke and the solid inside.
Look in the layers palette, move stroke section below the solid inside part
if it is on top. Select the solid inside piece and resize it by either using
the direct selection white arrow tool for the individual endpoints or freely
resize the whole object to meet/cover the edges of the stroke section.
hth
__Gem
"Nick Bell" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Gem wrote:
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> Thanks Gem, however that messes up the fills (as one might expect).
>
> To rephrase the problem, is it possible to recolour parts of a path,
> maintaining the whole as a closed path allowing it to be easily filled?
>
> Nick
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| Nick Bell 2005-10-23, 6:14 pm |
| Gem wrote:
> oh, ok I see what you mean.
> If you draw the object with the pen as a single closed path you can give the
> path a wide stroke with the edge color.
> Then select the object and go to Object>Expand and expand just the stroke.
> This will separate the path into 2 objects: the stroke and the solid inside.
> Look in the layers palette, move stroke section below the solid inside part
> if it is on top. Select the solid inside piece and resize it by either using
> the direct selection white arrow tool for the individual endpoints or freely
> resize the whole object to meet/cover the edges of the stroke section.
Thanks - I've done it - see http://peterbell.net/images/path.jpg (refresh!).
Cheers
Nick
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| Good work, Nick!
__Gem
"Nick Bell" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Gem wrote:
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> Thanks - I've done it - see http://peterbell.net/images/path.jpg
> (refresh!).
>
> Cheers
>
> Nick
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