Mr Dangle Dangles

Thanks MEB. Tracing strokes with the pen tool it is then! ;)

Hi guys, Is there any way to cut down on the excessive number of anchor points that are produced when a stroke is expanded? Thanks Marc

Ah, cheers for that. Very useful! Thanks Marc

Hello there, Is there a way to have the adjustment handles of nodes mirror each other for movement along the horizontal/vertical? Eg, when a point is placed, they both are the same length as indicated by the little dash on them, but to move both of them together with the node tool so they stay symmetrical, is this possible? Also is there a way to have the handles snap to guides along axis? Eg at 90º to each other etc. Ta

+1 for this too.

Also just sorted the seams out, by copying and pasting the final layer on top before export. Lines are clean and colour blocks solid with no seam. Thanks again. But a tool to snap nodes to other nodes would be great as doing it by hand, they seem to want to snap to other guides before the selected node, unless I zoom right in.

Node movement sorted! Thanks.

Here's a close up grab of the gap between anchored lines...

For example... On the 1st image, when I've merged the points of the triangles, how do I make the points move as 1 single point? The 2nd image is what I've just done using Affinity and it would be a lot quicker if I could snap points to a single and then move them as one. Also if you can see on the 2nd image, in-between all the snapped shapes, the lines have a faint gap showing the background. Short of having a stroke of the same colour on all of the individual shapes, is there a way around this also? (Edit - wrong picture.)

Thanks MEB, you have confirmed my findings! Another question... Is there a way, after joining / snapping nodes together to convert them into a single node for movement? It would be great (for me) to be able to select a number of end nodes and to align them together as one. ;)

Hello, Ive been using Affinity Designer for a few weeks now, great piece of software but what I'm finding is that to do some simple tasks can be very long winded. For example, when drawing polygons/triangles mostly with the pen tool It would be great to be able to snap the anchor points/nodes to each other and also to group them together then snap them to a centre point and reposition them as 1... If you know what I mean? I'm finding that they don't also want to snap to lines unless they're on the horizontal or vertical plane of another point. Ive been playing with the snap tools, but no luck. Also another timesaving thing for example, if I draw a circle/polygon and divide it into segmented parts again with the pen tool, is there the ability to make and split those segments into separate shapes? I might be missing something somewhere, any help would be much appreciated. Many Thanks