Hello !

I've been using some logic / boolean vector options like "add", "subtract ", "intersect" with good results but when I try the "split" boolean is disabled (Krita does not let me use it).

I tried to select 2 or 3 shapes / objects, but it's the same. Even using rectangle, elipse, lines, poligon, etc.

I know that some 3D design programs allow to split or cut an object with another. For example we can split a sphere with a plane and then we will have two half-spheres. Then I deduce that the result in Krita is quite the same but in 2D.

What is the problem? Thanks for your time !

PS: I have the latest version of Krita installed

It would be less confusing if that Split operation was called 'Separate' because that's what it seems to do.

If you make a filled rectangle, then place a smaller circle over it and inside it, you can use the Subtract operation to give a filled rectangle with a circular hole in it. After that, you can use the Split operation on it to give separate filled rectangle and filled circle objects.

If you overlap a filled circle on a filled rectangle, you can Unite or Subract them to form a filled shape with a part rectangle, part circle outline. However, you can't use Split on the resulting shape because that shape could have been made using other vector construction techniques. There have to be obviously separate shapes to enable use of the Split function.

Oh ! thank you

I understand now, and yeah, the name should be "separate" or something different. I even checked out the "divide / split" operation in Inkscape, and the result is different.