Tutorial 2.2

Drawing shapes with holes

Introduction

Drawing shapes with holes is very easy in Moho, but many new users don't realize that this can be done. There's really no trick at all - just follow the basic rules for creating a fill.

Reminder of Fill Rules

Create Shape

As a reminder, let's consider the rules for creating a fill shape: A fill must be composed of closed curves that define the border of the shape. So, as an example, below is a valid fill shape. The picture shows the border points selected with the Create Shape tool, about to be filled.

A basic fill shape.

Creating Holes

So a fill shape is defined by the curves on its border. If we want to create a hole, then all we need to do is create curves that outline the shape of the desired hole(s). Below we've added some extra curves before creating a fill shape:

New curves added.

Create Shape

Once you've set up curves to define the shape of the hole, all you need to do is select the outline and the hole(s) using the Create Shape tool. Notice that Moho automatically identifies the inner curves as borders of holes in the shape. There's nothing in particular you have to do, just draw the holes and Moho will know what to do with them. When you've selected all the correct points, press the spacebar to finalize the shape.

Selected points for filling.

Finally, here is the resulting shape. (The Line Width tool was used to narrow the width of the outline at the corner points.)

The finished shape.

Here's another example of a shape with a hole:

Another shape with a hole.