Merge Creates Millions of Nodes

[Boldlinedesign]

I'm using the new 1.8.2 Designer on my mac - the expand option is improved and so are the boolean operations - but sometimes I still get "dirty" merges with millions of extra nodes. Is this normal?

[Boldlinedesign]

I love Affinity but this gets soon frustrating - I need to be able to use the pen and brush tools to create lines and then to be able to expand them, merge or divide them and edit them. I'm not getting why this turns into millions of useless nodes I have to clean up - or when I go to merge parts, entire sections disappear. I assume there are open nodes that are causing it to fail - but how do I get rid of those so I can merge properly and cleanly? In Illustrator when there is a mess in the design - you can hit expand and merge or unite (if you want scorched earth) and it eliminates all the problem-child nodes and properties keeping that vector from cooperating. Right now I do what I can in Affinity and then copy and paste the vector over into Illustrator to merge and eliminate the issues mentioned above... this works for now but my goal is to drop Adobe for good and I'm using an outdated OS to keep CS6 alive while I wait on Affinity... 

 

[Sean P]

Hi Boldlinedesign,

Could you attach an example of a couple of curves that do this on merging please? Please save the file with the curves prior to the merge please so we can replicate and investigate the issue.

Thanks