Designer1 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Is it possible to build such a logo in Affinity Designer? In Affinity Designer is missing Shape Tool and other tools from Adobe Illustrator.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHXiq7RIf4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 Although it is a simple four-circle shape design, it does not work in Affinity Designer. I have also tried it in CorelDraw, it works very well and fast. The question is, why doesn't it work in Affinity Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 You are correct that Affinity doesn't have the shape builder tool. But you should be able to achieve the same result (in a more labour intensive way) using the Boolean tools. Specifically Divide. Have you tried this? What part of the process isn't working? Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Yes, this is totally possible in Designer, see attached image. As Aammppaa said above, it needs a bit of work, but it’s doable. I’ll see if I can put a video together to show the process but I might not be able to get round to that today. Bad_Wolf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Aammppaa Unfortunately Specifically Divide does not work properly. Parts with unclean contours are created, with many points. It is clear that one can divide the circles into individual parts and then merge the required parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 GarryP A video would be great! Bad_Wolf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 @Designer1 I believe that the Geometry/Divide command has picked up some nasty bugs in version 1.8.1. As I understand it the developers are aware. Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad_Wolf Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Hi GarryP, A video will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 I see two ways to do this without going through Boolean operations, there are certainly others, perhaps simpler and faster. First method: 1/ Draw a crescent, adjust its thickness and apply a gradient to it. 2/ With the crescent selected, "Ctrl/Cmd + J", rotate it by 120° (for 3 crescents). 3/ Do "Ctrl/Cmd + J" a second time. 4/ Select one of the crescents, convert it into curves. 5/ Take "Node Tool", select the two central nodes and do "Break Curve". 6/ Select one of the two parts, place it under one of the other crescents. 7/ Select the other part and place it on the second crescent. 8/ To avoid the gap between the two parts of the cut crescent, select one of them, "Close Curve" and draw the line slightly in the other part. Second method: 1/ Draw the three crescents as in the first method. 2/ Duplicate one of the crescents and place it on top of the others. 3/ Draw a shape without filling or contour covering entirely the part opposite to the one to be modified, place it under the crescent. 4/ Lower the upper crescent into the shape until a horizontal blue rectangle is obtained at the bottom right of the label. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) GarryP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 h_d I hope that this Geometry/Divide bug will be fixed soon. One is dependent on this important function! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Here’s a link to the video which I’ve just posted to the Tutorials section of the site: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/108700-how-to-make-a-tri-part-circular-logo/ It contains a few different techniques so it might be useful to watch even if you don’t want to make this specific shape. Aammppaa, Designer1, firstdefence and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 GarryP Many thanks for this video tutorial ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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