

However, Path menu > Break Apart cannot break apart a single, whole path. You need to deselect everything after breaking apart before you can select individual paths. Path menu > Break Apart can break apart a compound path.

If you need a path to look like is has one style in one part of it and another style on another part of it, you need to have 2 separate paths which meet at the same node, but the nodes are not joined.Ī path which is made of more than one sub-path is called a compound path. Style includes things like color, opacity, stroke width, and many, many things. A dashed line pattern is one type of "style". One path, even though it may be made of more than one sub-paths, can only have one style.
