Having been a user of Illustrator since 1990, the above work around leaves MUCH to be desired. I would hope that the developers of Affinity would address this issue ASAP. Many of us who use the "outline path" feature in other programs to create a fast and clean outline for artwork will find the current answer in Affinity lacking in simplicity and the final result of the workaround places way to many extraneous nodes on the artwork. [requiring to much clean up to the final work area]. This is one of several issues that may prevent me [and others?] from making the leap onto the Affinity band wagon. That being said, you all still have a wonderful program. PS: Thanks for your reply's.