How can I separate particular paths from an object?

[RickyI]

Hi. I'm a beginner and this is the first post for me.
Possibly, some terms I use are wrong.

I have a bitmap image.
I have traced the bitmap image and turned it into a vector image.
The vector is now one combined object.


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Then, what I'd like to do is to separate only inner black circle.
I thought I could do so by breaking apart it.


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However if I do so, there is no inner white and it's messed.
I think that's because everything has been broken apart.


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How can I extract only the inner black circle without changing how it looks?

Thank you for reading.

[brynn]

Welcome to the forum!

So for the result, you want to have a black circle with white on the inside, but without the black dot?  If I understand correctly, then this is what I would do.

Right after you click Break Apart, and while everything is still selected:

-- hold the Shift key
-- click once on the dot (this deselects the dot, and leaves the other paths still selected
-- Path menu > Combine (this puts those other paths "back together")

Now you should have the black circle with white inside.  And the dot is separate and you can move it around, or whatever.

[Lazur]

Depending on path directions of the subpaths (not sure about that, probably there is also another factor here), after breaking apart (Ctrl+Shift+K) the z-order of the objects may be "messed up" -probably not with the trace bitmap though, so this is just a general thought: set a stroke and no fill to the path so you can select them easier -as they won't "cover" eachother.
Select the two largest paths and combine them (Ctrl+K).

[RickyI]

Welcome to the forum!

So for the result, you want to have a black circle with white on the inside, but without the black dot?  If I understand correctly, then this is what I would do.

Right after you click Break Apart, and while everything is still selected:

-- hold the Shift key
-- click once on the dot (this deselects the dot, and leaves the other paths still selected
-- Path menu > Combine (this puts those other paths "back together")

Now you should have the black circle with white inside.  And the dot is separate and you can move it around, or whatever.

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

O~K, in a first few tries, I couldn't do what you had told me.
And I figured it out why I couldn't, that's because I was Breaking apart it while I was in the node tool mode (after pressing F2).

Breaking apart an object in the node tool mode and in the object mode (mode appears after pressing F1) is different, isn't it?

After figuring out that, I could do exactly what you had told me.

Breaking apart everything and putting together everything other than what you want to be broken sounds a bit going around the bush, but maybe that's the most effective way now.

You have helped me! solved.
Thank you very much.

[brynn]

You're welcome.

You can still do it with the Node tool (the commands still work).  But it needs a different routine for selecting and delecting.