I have a question relating to breaking up a drawing. I’m sure this question has been asked before but I could not find a desirable solution. I’ll give you an example of what I’m trying to do. Let’s say I have a picture of a flower. I would like to separate let’s say the stem from the flower. If you look at the path it is one continuous line for both the stem and the flower. I realize that I can use a third-party product such as in inkscape to separate each component but usually by the time I realize this I’m already into the drawing and would have to go back and redo what I did so far. Up to now I have been just retracing each component. Is there an easier way two separate these component ?
Thanks again for your help
John
I don’t think the node editing capability in CC will allow that directly (but master @WillAdams will tell us!), if I had to do this I would do an ugly hack like so:
draw a small rectangle (a simple line won’t work, must be a closed path, but it could be arbitrarily narrow) at the location where you want to separate things:
And do a boolean subtract
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Using a Boolean operation is the correct solution (Carbide Create can’t change open to closed paths and vice-versa).
You can export to SVG in current versions and re-import though — the only thing you’d lose would be any assigned toolpaths — except that anything which has had a Boolean operation assigned would be converted from a curve object to a (closed) polyline.
That did it. It was exactly the function I needed. Thanks again for all your help.
John
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