Designer: Merge a shape

[Simon Dominic]

Being new to vector stuff I'm stuck with the following: Is there any way to join a shape to itself? So for example, using nodes, can I somehow create the shape on the right from the shape on the left? I know I could fudge it, e.g. by creating another shape and 'adding' it to the first, I'm wondering if there's a better way. When I just drag the shape over itself it XORs, which is obviously what it should do as it's interpreting the path, but not what I'm after.

[GarryP]

You could set “Layer → Fill Mode → Winding” and the fill won’t XOR itself – in some cases – but that could cause other problems if you add Effects and/or other things (I haven’t tested this exhaustively).

[Simon Dominic]

Thanks, that might work for what I want, as long as I can align the nodes to avoid kinks.