Krassmus Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hi folks, I have created a path from six cloned paths to form something like six-sided puzzle-piece (see attachment) Now I want to fill this puzzle-piece but it only fills out the 'tounges' of the piece and not everything that is surrounded by the path. I am sure this behaviour has something to do with the way I created the puzzle-piece - in combining multiple simple not-closed paths into a single closed path. But how do I get my path to be handled as a closed path and be filled like the way I want it to be filled? Thanx in advance Rasmus Streckenteile_cut.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hi Krassmuss, welcome to the forums. What you're looking for is called joining curves. Press A on the keyboard. This is the Node tool. Go to the top of the screen, the look at the second bar from the top. Then goto to the word action. Here you will find, 4 icons. Click on the 3rd box, this is called join curves. HTH peter Paul Bravery 1 Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krassmus Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 Hi Peter! Thank you! I found the button 'joining curves' you mentioned. In fact this was the button I used to join my six curves (paths?) into a large contour a few days ago. So when I now click 'join curves' nothing seems to change and still it would only fill the 'tounges' of my puzzle-piece. Have you tried it out with my .svg file and it works for you? Kind regards Rasmus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Hi Rasmus, and welcome here … :) You have to close the path completely. Simply clicking Join Curves (albeit usable in other cases) will not work here. The command just connects two different paths, but does not close a path, which means, it does not create a figure which creates an "inside" and an "outside" like the border of a country. In fact you can, though it’s not advisable in your case, use the Join Curves command on every two paths of your design, but this will create a path between nodes that are already snapped on each other (see my second screen shot; I have moved one of the nodes slightly). And you will nevertheless have to close the whole figure. But fortunately the very same question was discussed in the following threads. Please have a look at the second one for a video of how to join paths as I suggest: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10014-building-and-filling-free-forms-in-affinity-designer/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/8425-how-to-make-2-different-paths-become-one-path/?p=34571 Hope that helps … If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Cheers, Alex :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 I know where I went wrong...no snapping. This is where you select the two edges, snap to, then join curves. This is better explained here... https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/8425-how-to-make-2-different-paths-become-one-path/?p=34571 A_B_C 1 Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Had no intention to criticise you, peter … :) Excuse me, if it sounded like that … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 's ok. That's the thing about AD: not having full printed tutorials; you know what you want to do, but don't know every step and are missing that one crucial step. That's the one that matters. :ph34r: However, there's plenty of help here...and that's why this forum excels. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 You’re right, peter … printed tutorials would be great, but as I read somewhere they seem to be coming … I did print the help long time ago by brute force from Safari … :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krassmus Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 Thank you, both! I had to do a little working with what you mentioned. I still don't know exactly what I did wrong, but I see now that my current puzzle-piece has been constructed in a wrong way. It might work on some cases, but in my case the paths are combined in a wrong order and I'd need to separate them first and combine them somehow different, what would also crash my puzzle-piece a little bit. Rather that combining paths it is more safe to combine areas to get a clear area. Your videos, Alex were very helpful for me, to see how I could work faster with AD. A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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