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Erasing and deleting

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I have created an image using several overlapping circles without fill. the stroke (border of the circles) is all I want. Now I want to cut my image in half so that I only keep the bottom half of all of my unfilled circles. I checked the tutorials, lots of them. No method seems to work to delete the top half of my circles. Help!!!! I have spent hours on this.

Joyce

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Best Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Joyce,

there are quite a few options to do this.

- If you want your circles to be half circles, just drag on the round handle they show when in circle tool or node tool.

- If you want to cut off part of your drawing, you can either
  - hide the part you don't want, using a clip, see https://inkscapetutorials.org/2014/04/22/inkscape-faq-how-do-i-crop-in-inkscape/

  - delete the part you don't want:
    option a) Turn the circles into paths (Path -> object to path), then use the node tool to delete the nodes you do not need, and to split path segments between the two nodes that you want to be the end nodes.
   option b) Use boolean operations to cut off parts of paths by using Path -> Difference with an object that covers the part you want to be cut off.

For usage of node tool and boolean path operations, please see this manual and some tutorials:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape/toolbox/node-tool/
http://vektorrascheln.de/posts/2015/Dec/inkscape-fuer-einsteiger-teil-ii-praxis-en.html#boolean-operations

You can also find more help in the 'Learn' section on the Inkscape website:
https://inkscape.org/en/learn/

Kind regards,
 Maren

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Joyce (reclaimedandrepurposed) said : 		#2

Thanks, I clipped it and that worked.