Fast Shape Editing with Path Operations and the Shape Builder Tool
In the previous chapter, we saw how we can make shapes by editing nodes and curves. This is handy but can be quite time-consuming. Wouldn’t it be great if we could, say, add two shapes together to make one shape? That would certainly save us a lot of time! Well, you’ll be happy to hear that we can indeed do that with what is known as path operations, which people also sometimes refer to as booleans.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- What are Booleans?
- Exploring the Combine, Break Apart, Split Path, Fracture, and Flatten operations
- Inset, Outset, and Dynamic Offset Path operations
- Fast Path operations with the Shape Builder tool
