I'm trying to slice away most of a rectangle, with a diagonal line. When I try to follow the tutorial and make a diagonal line with the pencil tool, the line disappears and I get a useless rectangle instead. What am I doing wrong?
Depends on what you´re after:
Your procedure will introduce new nodes at the "cutting" line. Take the Node tool select the nodes you don´t want and hit backspace to delete.
Or make a triangular shape form the cutting line in first shape and use Path->Difference will work as expected.
Or go Path->Cut Path - select what you don´t want and delete and receive an open shape.
I guess that when using bezier tool (pen tool), your line has no stroke color or no stroke width. Check in fill and stroke panel (ctrl+shift + F)
You can't see it, but actually it's there (that's why you see it's bounding box : what you call a useless rectangle).
I'd add to Polygon's reply that you can also use shape builder tool or path > fracture to get the two parts.
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I'm trying to slice away most of a rectangle, with a diagonal line. When I try to follow the tutorial and make a diagonal line with the pencil tool, the line disappears and I get a useless rectangle instead. What am I doing wrong?
Depends on what you´re after:
Your procedure will introduce new nodes at the "cutting" line. Take the Node tool select the nodes you don´t want and hit backspace to delete.
Or make a triangular shape form the cutting line in first shape and use Path->Difference will work as expected.
Or go Path->Cut Path - select what you don´t want and delete and receive an open shape.
I guess that when using bezier tool (pen tool), your line has no stroke color or no stroke width. Check in fill and stroke panel (ctrl+shift + F)
You can't see it, but actually it's there (that's why you see it's bounding box : what you call a useless rectangle).
I'd add to Polygon's reply that you can also use shape builder tool or path > fracture to get the two parts.