Hello! Im having some issues with the boolean operators and the cut shapes tool giving me unreliable results. My guess Is that I am trying to subtract too many shapes at once or groups of shapes that are too complex. Here was my biggest issue…
Before Subtract
After Subtact
I was trying to create a large repeating pattern by using the array tool, but then I noticed that the boolean result was loosing many lines. You can see this where the shapes intersect. This ruined them aesthetically, but more importantly they were no longer closed shapes and I could not use them again for a boolean operation. So I tried cut shapes, but then I ran into problems like this…
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After
And also issues like this, where the dotted line is the “inside” cut…
So I resorted to manually trimming and extending lines where they overlapped, which is such a nice tool, especially being able to snap a node to any point of a line, but I ran into instances where when I trimmed or extended it would miss/skip a line, or the end of the trimmed line wouldn’t trim accurately to the target line. I also got leftover fragments/stray nodes like here…
Before Trim
After Trim
I have a feeling I am just pushing these operations to hard, its a lot of relatively small shapes, stuffed into a group. I posted before about boolean operations not maintaining the original shapes when performed on tiny shapes, or not being able to select multiple nodes in a very small area, so maybe the problem is similar to that, but in this case it seems like it is just losing lines, plus Im working on these shapes while scaling them up quite large. Please, let me know, If I can get a these types of operations right, or understand my limits with them, it would really help me with my designs. Thanks!