Mr Flow
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Mr Flow reacted to iconoclast in Drawing curves next to each other
These "large black things" you're talking about are probably the fill colour of the initial curve object that is still there if you open the curve at the certain nodes. I know that is irritating. In that case deactivate the fill of the shape and give the curve path a thin coloured stroke.
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Mr Flow reacted to walt.farrell in Drawing curves next to each other
If you have told it to use a Fill, and if the curve is not a straight line, then yes, you would get that. If that's problem, don't specify the Fill.
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Mr Flow reacted to GarryP in Drawing curves next to each other
Welcome to the forums @Mr Flow
If you have Designer then the Contour Tool might be useful.
Or you might be able to use the Appearance Panel.
And there could be various other things you could use depending on what it is that you want to do.
Can you give us more details about what you want to do, specifically what you mean by “adjacent” and “magnetic”?
Any visual aids you can supply would probably help.
Also, which Affinity application(s) do you have access to?
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Mr Flow reacted to Hangman in Drawing curves next to each other
It all depends what you are trying to do but these options on the context toolbar 'may' help...
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Mr Flow reacted to thomaso in Drawing curves next to each other
Not directly related but worth to mention is a slightly hidden feature of auto-adjusting curves, respectively auto-copying node handles. Just drag & hold a second …
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Mr Flow reacted to GarryP in Drawing curves next to each other
The quickest way to do what you want is probably to draw a filled shape which covers the area you want to fill and then put it underneath the original artwork – a bit like how they used to draw cartoons with the filled bits drawn on a separate sheet of acetate under an outline sheet, if you know what I mean.
There will be other ways.
You will need to decide what you want to do where there is a gap, e.g. to the left of the owl, or at the top of its head.
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Mr Flow reacted to Pšenda in Drawing curves next to each other
Due to the line thickness used, no "precise" work is required - just draw the marked area and hide it behind the logo.
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Mr Flow reacted to GarryP in Drawing curves next to each other
The “auto-adjusting curve” (noted by thomaso above) might be mentioned in the Help but I don’t know what it will be called.
Even if it is mentioned in the Help it’s not likely to be documented extensively so it might be best just to experiment and see what it does in different circumstances.
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Mr Flow reacted to thomaso in Drawing curves next to each other
Note that the number of nodes in existing & new curve do matter and ideally would match. So, depending on the nodes in your existing drawing this workflow can be far less efficient than just drawing manually, as mentioned by GarryP and Psenda. In particular for vectorized raster images which may contain a lot more nodes than required (... as possibly in your "owl" illustration).
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Mr Flow reacted to iconoclast in Drawing curves next to each other
Probably I didn't really understand the topic, but if you want to create a curve that exactly follows an existing curve, why don't you duplicate the curve?
If it's all about the inner shape to be filled, you could select the Nodes of the duplicate that don't belong to this inner (negative) curve shape and delete them. As a result you will get a curve object of this inner shape that can be filled as you want.
Edit: In case of your example above this will not work without some additional steps, because the inner area you want to fill is not a closed area. So you should open the Nodes of the duplicate at the points the curve needs to be closed and close it there manually by using the Pen Tool.