Adding shapes converts polylines to curves

[Dumpfbacke]

Hi,

I have some simple geometric shapes and want to join them into one object. At some point a polyline section gets converted into a curve - which I obviously don't want. I want to keep the polyline shape. What's wrong here? I attached a simple example with some random shapes. It is one recangle and four shapes inside. Please try mergeing/adding/joining (no idea what's the appropriate word here) them into one - shape will get lost.

Please help.

example 01.afdesign

[Aammppaa]

I suspect you are using 1.8 which has a horrible bug when adding simple shapes, such as polylines.

There is a 1.8.1 beta which fixes the issue available now in the betas forum.

It installs along side the retail install, not over the top, so worth trying it out to see if it fixes your problem.

Or wait until 1.8.1 is officially released.

Or downgrade to 1.7.x

[firstdefence]

Select all the layers and rotate them holding down shift to rotate them 15º Now Geometry: Add them and reverse the rotate back 15º

You can actually rotate them 0.1º and this will still work but it's just easier to hold shift down to get the fixed 15º rotation

[Dumpfbacke]

Thanks for your answers.
I just installed the beta and it worked.
Haven't tried the rotation trick, because it's done now.

Again, thanks a lot!