Corner tool not working on select nodes

[Spectro]

Hello everyone!

I am quite new to affinity designer and I was trying to use the Corner Tool... and then this happened. As you can see, I even tried converting the node to a corner node, but to no result. 

I am sure that this is some very simple problem that I have here, as I don't know much about the program.

Any help here would be appreciated!

 

[Old Bruce]

Hi and welcome to the forums @Spectro

I have to ask if the green is a closed shape? Quick check is putting a wide stroke on it.

[Spectro]

Ah. Well that makes sense. Thank you! It wasn't a closed shape. 

 

Edited July 6, 2021 by Spectro

[PixelPest]

Just to add my 2ct here - a shape don´t need to be closed to use the corner tool:

[Old Bruce]

The shap was most likely formed with only three points. Like this.

 

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

a shape don´t need to be closed to use the corner tool

The issue is that you can’t use the Corner Tool on an end node (or on a pair of coincident but unjoined end nodes).

[PixelPest]

7 minutes ago, Alfred said:

The issue is that you can’t use the Corner Tool on an end node

Why is this an issue - who wants that - how should the corner look like on an end node? The thing is called "corner tool" - no?

[Old Bruce]

You and I both have strokes on our shapes so it was obvious that they aren't closed. No stroke and you'll just see the nodes and the fill. Confusion follows.

[PixelPest]

The confusion can be removed in an instant by clicking on: "Outline view mode".

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, PixelPest said:

The thing is called "corner tool" - no?

Yes, of course. I should have left out the bit about single end nodes.

34 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

You and I both have strokes on our shapes so it was obvious that they aren't closed.

That’s the important point. If you have a pair of coincident end nodes it looks like a corner but doesn’t behave like one.

[PixelPest]

52 minutes ago, Alfred said:

That’s the important point. If you have a pair of coincident end nodes it looks like a corner but doesn’t behave like one.

From my experience drawing with the Bézier-tool will generate a stroke with no fill by default. Otherwise check with a mouse-click on Outline view mode to attain enlightenment just in occasional cases.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, PixelPest said:

From my experience drawing with the Bézier-tool will generate a stroke with no fill by default.

The context toolbar for the Pen Tool has at the far right a "Use Fill" checkbox. At least on my Mac it is a "sticky" setting -- if I enable it, it remains enabled until I disable it, including between relaunched of the app.

[PixelPest]

I know - and it´s not checked for a good reason, because the filling gets in the way when drawing complex shapes and blocks the view of the "blueprint".

[Spectro]

Sorry to cause all this confusion - I am very new to this program and knew nothing about outline view mode, or the "use fill" box. Somehow it was checked for me, which could've been me at some point, or could just be the default. As Old Bruce said, I didn't have a stroke and I drew the shapes a while back, and then after a bit I had the idea to use the corner tool.

Thanks for everyone's help!

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, PixelPest said:

I know - and it´s not checked for a good reason, because the filling gets in the way when drawing complex shapes and blocks the view of the "blueprint".

You may not ever have checked it but it seems the OP did at some point, so since it is "sticky" it would remain enabled for new work until unchecked by the user.

[nuptownboy]

I have experienced a similar but different issue and have uninstalled/reinstalled AD plus factory reset. Having completed some tutorial exercises with the corner tool successfully this issue has developed in the last few days. If I am in Isometric mode on a curve of 2 walls that have been added to make one shape then the corner tool fails to operate as it was operating and I have posted a small video of the manifestation. In a normal plane or plan setting ie draw a rectangle and select corner tool and select shape I can construct corners to each of the 4/3/2/1 nodes but as shown in video something has happened as I was able to do this simple marquee selection using the corner tool and pressing option/alt key on my mac and it was working in iso mode. Note that the layer is singular and says "curve" having joined 2 "wall sections" together with Geometry add shapes and I have not touched any other operation such as bake appearance in version 1.10.4. It seems to have just developed as the 2 middle nodes indicate. One at the top middle does not work but is highlighted in small red. I have checked with wide stroke and all appears as I would expect and there is a closed shape. The external corners work ok - any ideas. I have uploaded  file and crash report as well

2ndAD19JanCrash.txt corners.afdesign

[PixelPest]

Get rid of that double node:

[nuptownboy]

23 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Get rid of that double node:

Hi PixelPest and thanks so much for illustrating this for me and I was doing ok and even read about the double node issue in a few of the earlier posts. At least I can see what to do if this happens again. I drew it out a few times and convinced myself that it must be an issue despite reading about the double node thing and that was because part of my brain assumed that once I had used the Geometry- add the shapes together for the 2 wall plane views- to the side and front views/grids then that would have eliminated the issue. I have been able to continue with tutorial which is great and thanks for that. Perhaps it is my technique slipping into bad practice that led to this double node on top of each other as it was not occurring on both point 5 and 6 which is what I found odd. Be great if Serif built in a little warning thing on this. I have done the Udemy foundation Affinity Designer course and that was what it said on the tin but I wanted to take the tutorials further and have been relying on some very good Youtube  tutorials. The basic tutorials on the Serif.com are good but dont cover this sort of stuff and very grateful for you forum guys taking time out to assist.

23 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Get rid of that double node:

I have experienced a similar but different issue and have uninstalled/reinstalled AD plus factory reset. Having completed some tutorial exercises with the corner tool successfully this issue has developed in the last few days. If I am in Isometric mode on a curve of 2 walls that have been added to make one shape then the corner tool fails to operate as it was operating and I have posted a small video of the manifestation. In a normal plane or plan setting ie draw a rectangle and select corner tool and select shape I can construct corners to each of the 4/3/2/1 nodes but as shown in video something has happened as I was able to do this simple marquee selection using the corner tool and pressing option/alt key on my mac and it was working in iso mode. Note that the layer is singular and says "curve" having joined 2 "wall sections" together with Geometry add shapes and I have not touched any other operation such as bake appearance in version 1.10.4. It seems to have just developed as the 2 middle nodes indicate. One at the top middle does not work but is highlighted in small red. I have checked with wide stroke and all appears as I would expect and there is a closed shape. The external corners work ok - any ideas. I have uploaded  file and crash report as well

[nuptownboy]

Thanks for that  answers resolution PixelPost I did put a thanks note up above but I also need to get a handle on using this forum