Beatrees Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way for Designer to automatically close curves and shapes when you draw them. I'm trying to cut down the time I take when drawing a circle-ish object, then having to change tools to join the ends of the curve to close it. Thanks much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) You can close a curve while using the Pen Tool by clicking on the start node, see attched image. Or you can also press the “Close Curve” button in the Pen Tool context Toolbar (in the “Action” area). Does this help? Edited March 23, 2020 by GarryP I was wrong, again. G13RL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 For me, on Windows, clicking (or double-clicking) on the first node does not automatically close the curve. I am forced to move the node slightly and the curve closes only when I put it back in its place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Sorry. Some of what I said above was wrong. You just need to click on the start node when the mouse pointer has a little “O” next to it which, according to the Help, should close the curve. I have edited my earlier post. Hopefully it's correct now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 @GarryP, thanks for the clarification, I hadn't paid attention to the shape of my cursor, so I was wrong. I also thought the node had to be yellow to close the curve (I thought it was strange to see it change color without the cursor being positioned on it), now it all makes sense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 A node only seems to appear yellow when the pointer is close to the node but not directly over it. Maybe it’s to do with the extra snapping functionality within the Pen Tool; turn all the context toolbar snapping options off and it doesn’t show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 7 hours ago, GarryP said: A node only seems to appear yellow when the pointer is close to the node but not directly over it. Yellow indicates one of the snapping options will be used if a node is placed there. So for example, if a snapping option is enabled that will snap a node to an existing path, a small segment of that path will light up in yellow at that point. There are both 'global' & node-related snapping options (the latter only appearing in the context toolbar), & when a lot of them are enabled, it can take a second or too for the snapping logic to decide which (if any) to indicate can be used. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapit Zulkefli Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 happens to me. need to add extra step to join all the point first in order to get that all close. quite frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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