Henry N
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Henry N reacted to PixelPest in Expanding stroke... - Affinity Designer
There are some random nodes appearing when breaking curves:
Easy to fix:
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Henry N reacted to lepr in Expanding stroke... - Affinity Designer
Yes, the current stroke expansion code (and Contour Tool code) can be broken when a cusp (known as sharp in Affinity) node is less than 0.5 pixels distant from another node. Pixel distances are significant because pixel is the real unit of measurement in Affinity apps and documents while other units are merely for the user interface.
A workaround for the problem is to upscale the document so that nodes become a greater distance - measured in pixels - apart, then do the stroke expansion and then optionally reverse the scaling. For example, scaling by 10 will ensure all nodes of your 'B' example become separated by at least 0.5 pixels and then an expansion will work well.
Be aware that there are other operations in Affinity which become more messy as distances measured in pixels increase.
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Henry N reacted to Alfred in Combining shapes/curves
Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Henry.
Moving one of the shapes to make them overlap would reduce the overall height, which is obviously undesirable, but what you can do is to create an overlap at the join. Choose the Node Tool and drag the middle of one of the abutting straight edges so that it curves to overlap the adjacent straight edge, and then switch to the Move Tool, select the two objects and click on the ‘Add’ button in the Geometry section of the toolbar.