Scissor tool/slice vector path
Making more complex vector drawings is difficult without a tool like the scissor tool from Illustrator.
Creating arches like the attached image in Illustrator is super easy with the combination of the scissor and circle tool, but in XD it is very difficult.
Martin Sangolt
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Andreas Mehne
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Ah, it's not just me then!
You obviously cannot trim, slice, or cut a closed path in Xd. I thought the tool was merely well-concealed, but it is actually nonexistent.
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Ron Frank
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If only Adobe would respond to this thread and say something like: Yeah, we know. We just haven't gotten to it yet. Or: Here's a work around… [the rectangle tip doesn't cut it — literally]. Posting into an unanswered thread is just super frustrating to everyone.
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Anonymous
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Great idea.. I would rather use XD but this issue is really annoying
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Kara
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Scissor tool would be SUPER helpful and some have argued essential for vector editing.
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Vladimir Krstic commented
This is essential for vector editing. Can't understand how something essential like this is not incorporated. Literally only thing that keeps me from switching to XD is lack of cut tool.
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Anonymous
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For those looking for a quick work around. Here's a cool video on how to make a circular progress bar using dashed strokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkSclfsaFA -
Nevo VK
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yes please!
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alanjawn
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right now if you draw a line with four points you cannot select the middle segment of the line, then delete it, changing it to two separate lines. I would like to see this functionality in XD. Deleting points sequentially from the end just does not cut it, too often I have to go back to illustrator for basic path editing.
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Melanie
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Please add cutting paths to unclosed paths.
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Anonymous
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how about either a direct selection tool - or introduce the old adobe FLASH / ANIMATE drawing method where you could break apart the bezier and marquee select the elements of a path/fill to modify or delete.
example would be to create a perfect hemisphere/arc from a circle - at the moment there is no way other than freeform an arc to create it perfectly (not that I know of). ideal method:
- draw a circle with border and no fill
- direct select the left/right side and delete it
- leaving you with a perfect hemisphere line -
Anonymous
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Scissor tool implementation would be great !
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Anonymous
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Hey Adobe, you have the knowledge and the possibilities to implement basic features in XD like mirror and rotate objects around a defined point, cutting and joining path, duplicate objects with a defined value like in illustrator? This is one of the basic reasons why I not will change to XD.
Best
Harald -
Akex
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Need scissors!
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dimk
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Scissors are a must have XD's tool
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Anonymous
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It would be great if i can cut path and add thing as per our requirement. Right now i have to achieve these thing with (add, subtract, intersect,). It would be great if we have these options as we use to do in Photoshop shape tool.
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@david You are correct. Currently in XD, you can delete anchor points on a Path, but there's no way to delete a segment to change a closed Path to an unclosed Path.
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David
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When I try to use the solution @randy Edmunds gives, (using subtraction tool), the original shape joins itself across the removed area.
For example - if I want a half circle, I create a circle (no fill, with just border) - then I place a box over the bottom half...when I click SUBTRACT - the to ends of the circle connect....not sure why - but i can't seem to get that to work correctly....
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David
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I agree - scissors is needed.
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You can do this with a slightly different workflow using the Subtract feature. Draw a Rectangle over the part of the Circle that you want to delete, select both shapes, and then Subtract. See gif:
Or you can draw Rectangle over part of Circle that you want to keep and use Intersect.
Is the what you are looking for?
Randy
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Marshall Wells commented
It would be very useful to delete a path in between two points. (example: create a circle shape with the ellipse tool, then double click to select the points. Select one of the lines and delete to make a perfect half circle.)
