Pencil image

[BloodyQuinzel]

I am designing something and i made this tree with the pencil tool i made each stroke separately and grouped them all together after connecting them then when i tried to fill it. The first image is what happen how do i just fill the inside of the tree?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums.
I think this will depend on how you “grouped” the lines and how you “connected” them.
A Fill will only affect a single layer, it will not extend between layers in a group.
Adding the lines together using Geometry Add will not get you a Fill that covers the space in between either as you still have separate lines.
You need to connect line starts to line ends in order to get a ‘continuous’ shape which covers the area you want to fill.
Does this make sense? If not, I – or someone else – may be able to explain it better.

[Dan C]

Hi BloodyQuinzel,

Welcome to the forums

As Garry has mentioned, the method of grouping/combining your separate curve layers will affect how 'filling' the curves behaves.

Could you please provide a copy of your .afdesign document so we can look into this further for you, and provide some more specific feedback? Thanks in advance!

[BloodyQuinzel]

here is the file (sorry i spelled awareness wrong lol)

Mental Health Awarness.afdesign

Edited March 13, 2020 by BloodyQuinzel
spelt somthing wrong

[Old Bruce]

I went through and joined the overlapping nodes using the method of selecting them and then using the join curves tool on the context tool bar.

tree thing.afdesign

Edit: Note that I also changed the stroke to a simple straight line, you'll have to change the curve back because now it is one long curve.

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, BloodyQuinzel said:

here is the file (sorry i spelled awareness wrong lol)

Mental Health Awarness.afdesign

Sometimes typos can be fortuitous.

New word: Awarness = The fight to bring to light topical issues in society.

[G13RL]

I used another method, perhaps a little more restrictive.
Ungroup the three groups.
Put the filling of the different shapes on none.
"Layer," "Expand Stroke," "Add," then "Divide," the shape fills.
If you do "Add" again you can put an outline and choose the colors.

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, G13RL said:

I used another method, perhaps a little more restrictive.
Ungroup the three groups.
Put the filling of the different shapes on none.
"Layer," "Expand Stroke," "Add," then "Divide," the shape fills.
If you do "Add" again you can put an outline and choose the colors.

Cool.

[G13RL]

@Old Bruce thank you, maybe a little long to implement...

[firstdefence]

You can actually do this in one select and one click.

1. Select all curves in the Group Group Group
2. Press A to select the node tool
3. Click on Join Curves

Ok 2 selects and one click lol!

[BloodyQuinzel]

28 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

You can actually do this in one select and one click.

1. Select all curves in the Group Group Group
2. Press A to select the node tool
3. Click on Join Curves

Ok 2 selects and one click lol!

im blind were is join curves at lol

[Alfred]

22 minutes ago, BloodyQuinzel said:

im blind were is join curves at lol

It’s highlighted on the Context toolbar screenshot in @Old Bruce’s first post to this thread:

 

[BloodyQuinzel]

Thank you everyone for helping me

I done it