Why isn't the divide tool working for me?

[Jaiess]

When I try to divide these two curves, I get a bunch of lines that mess up. Why?

[Alfred]

41 minutes ago, Jaiess said:

When I try to divide these two curves, I get a bunch of lines that mess up. Why?

It’s because the Boolean operations (‘Divide’ in particular) have been somewhat broken for a long time. A simple but tedious way to achieve the desired result is to duplicate the two original shapes, use ‘Intersect’ to isolate the overlap, and then subtract a copy of the overlap piece individually from each of the shapes you started with.

[Jaiess]

4 minutes ago, Alfred said:

It’s because the Boolean operations (‘Divide’ in particular) have been somewhat broken for a long time. A simple but tedious way to achieve the desired result is to duplicate the two original shapes, use ‘Intersect’ to isolate the overlap, and then subtract a copy of the overlap piece individually from each of the shapes you started with.

 

Hm... interesting. That seems... kind of insane that something like that has gone for 'a long time' and still hasn't been fixed.

I'm trying to avoid using Illustrator, but stuff like this makes it difficult to support Affinity Designer. I guess they already have my money though.

 

Thanks for the response Alfred.

[PixelPest]

In your first screenshot the dark shape seems a weird brush stroke. When I take a "clean" shape Division simply works:

Unless I miss your point here.

[Jaiess]

1 minute ago, PixelPest said:

In your first screenshot the dark shape seems a weird brush stroke. When I take a "clean" shape Division simply works:

Unless I miss your point here.

The dark shape, the shadow, is a shape created using the pen tool.

[Jaiess]

3 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

In your first screenshot the dark shape seems a weird brush stroke. When I take a "clean" shape Division simply works:

Unless I miss your point here.

I've recreated the issue, as I ended up using Albert's fix originally. This is to show that it's a curve.

[PixelPest]

[Jaiess]

6 hours ago, PixelPest said:

 

[Wosven]

You need to convert your Smart nodes to Smooth nodes to get a cleaner result.

[Jaiess]

7 minutes ago, Wosven said:

You need to convert your Smart nodes to Smooth nodes to get a cleaner result.

 

That solved the issue. Thank you.