Affinity Designer: How to fill my object?

[FabPas]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a totally newby and watching the tutorial vids didn't helped me.

I just run a first trial by drawing some kind of horizontal "8" with the pen tool and adding an extra line to it (in the added picture figure A)

Now i want to colorize the separate sequences (1, 2 and 3) individually. It just won't work and ends up with the colorization like seen in Figure B.

When i seperate my figure with the geometry-tools the added extra line from the biginning get closed (figure C). That's not what i want.

I want the three areas 1, 2 and 3 of my figure to behave as if they were three objects.

I'm totally blind or dumb or whatever - I just didn't get it.

Can anyone help me?

In a second step I want to try to combine the areas 2 and 3 to one single area and get rid of the intersection line (figure D)

I'm still looking for some kind of merging tool.

 

Thanks a lot

 

Fabian

Edited January 29, 2020 by FabPas

[DWright]

Hi @FabPas,

To remove the line in figure D you can use the node tool to break the nodes at each en of the line from the rest of the shape and then delete the line

[FabPas]

Hi @DWright,

thank you very much. I did as you told.

The Result looks like I wanted to look optically. (figure E)

But still I can't fill it.

As seen in figure F my whole shape is made out of two curves, that are still open, though the nodes of each one snaps to the path of the other.

So I do understand why the program fills my shape like in figure G, but that's not what I want.

I want the two areas in figure E to behave like two separate objects.

Still looking for some kind of "shape builder"-tool to fix it.

Any suggestions?