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Beginners' Questions Can't cutout a letter
  1. #1
    abasel abasel @abasel

    I have two objects

    • Puzzle Piece
    • Letter

    Both have had "Object to Path" applied to them.

    I have tried appling all of the Path combiations i.e. combine, exlusion, difference etc but I cannot get the let B to be cut out of the puzzle piece.

    Cutout
  2. #2
    abasel abasel @abasel

    Not sure what I did but I started getting it right. Something must not have been converted to a path correctly.

  3. #3
    Kirstie Kirstie @Kirstie🌷

    Hi Abasel,

    When you make text into a path, it also becomes a group of paths (which makes more sense when you have more than one letter).
    Ungroup it with Ctrl+U.

    Then you can select the 2 paths and choose, I think, path > difference.

  4. #4
    abasel abasel @abasel

    Thanks for that. Didnt realised they will still all grouped.

  5. #5
    Kirstie Kirstie @Kirstie🌷

    Yeah, it is not very logical either, that grouped text. Glad it helped!
    🌸