Trouble Connecting Nodes

[marino389]

I'm working on a project to cut out paper planes from this book. I'm remaking the planes in Affinity because I can cut out vector files at our local makerspace on the laser cutter/engraver. I'm also trying to color the projects and get them to match the actual planes. In the attached example, I'm coloring a P-80 Shooting Star.

I have a simple question, and no doubt I'm missing something obvious. In the third screenshot, I'm trying to attach two nodes together. They are exactly on top of one another. I select both nodes, hold down shift, and click "Join Curves." Nothing happens, and both nodes are still independent of one another. What am I missing?

 

 

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, marino389 said:

I have a simple question, and no doubt I'm missing something obvious. In the third screenshot, I'm trying to attach two nodes together. They are exactly on top of one another. I select both nodes, hold down shift, and click "Join Curves." Nothing happens, and both nodes are still independent of one another. What am I missing?

You can only join the ends of open curves. There is no way to join one curve (open or closed) to an already closed curve, or to join two open curves at any point on either of them other than at their open ends.

Also, you do not need to hold down Shift after selecting the two curves & it does not make any difference which if any nodes you select -- the two closest end nodes will be joined.

[marino389]

Gotcha, thanks!