Every time when I'm creating a logotype and then I want to "add" everything to one shape... It is a very clunky process. It was similar feeling in Affinity 1.X. Sorry to say that, but I don't see much improvement on working with shapes. Options like "expand / add / subtract" still bugs out quite a lot. On files that I have added you can see something that happens to me pretty frequently - for some reason when I try to add two shapes to make it one it creates reversed options etc. In general I wish to be able to create a logo, then expand strokes and then just combine it easily. Now I have to try to do so many tricks to get it right and sometimes I'm stuck like this time. In this situation I will probably get those two shapes, cut it out from bigger rectangle option and try to add it again.
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