Vince B. Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Hi, I select several shapes, then when I hit 'divide', designer crashes. Same thing if the shapes are converted to curves before trying to devide them. I tried with a new file, same behaviour Thanks for the great work, I love Designer! MacOS 10.11.6 No hardware acceleration (no compatible GPU) Affinity Designer version 1.10.1 Bug.afdesign Bug.tiff Bug2.tiff Bug3.tiff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 @Vince B. Welcome to the Affinity forums. I was unsure what the intention was with your file and whether you meant Subtract rather than Divide? Looking at your file I'd assumed that perhaps the intent was to cut a hole in the brick wall (Divide doesn't seem to make much sense to me looking at the file but maybe I'm wrong)? I didn't experience any crashing issue with Designer or your file and I did the following to cut a hole in the wall but let us know if the intention is to achieve something else. I expect the moderators will ask you to upload the crash report and/or a video showing the steps you've taken showing Designer crashing. Brick Wall.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince B. Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 Thanks for your reply, Hangman! My goal was to remove all the bricks outside the circle, hence divide them. I know I can achieve that with a mask, but I guess it can also be done with the Divide tool. I will post a video of the crash as soon as possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 In which case, yes, just use a clipping mask... Brick Circle.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Hi @Vince B. Welcome to the Affinity forums. Sorry to hear you are experiencing crashing. I've been able to recreate the issue on your document by selecting everything and clicking Divide, but I haven't been able to recreate the issue from scratch. Can you tell me anything about how you created the document? I agree with @Hangman that the best way to achieve the results you were after is to use a clipping mask. It's a less destructive way of doing things and you can remove the mask if you need to or change your mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince B. Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 Thanks, SPaceBar. The file was just an example, I experienced that bug several times. I sometimes really want to divide shapes so a clipping mask won't help in that case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 A lot of the rectangles in your design won't select when I click them. I haven't been able to recreate this state so when I try to divide the shapes in my document it seems to work. Try this one. Highlight everything and click Divide on this file. Divide-test-file.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince B. Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 I tried your file, SPaceBar, no crash! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince B. Posted September 27, 2021 Author Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) Her's how I created the file: First, I drew a rectangle, then duplicated it, dragged the copy side by side to the original rectangle then duplicated again several times until I get a line of rectangles. Selected that line, duplicated it and dragged the second line under then first one with an offset of half a rectangle. Then selected the two lines and duplicated them, dragged the two new lines of rectangles under the first group, then duplicated them again until I get a 'wall' Finally drew a circle over the 'wall' Edited September 27, 2021 by Vince B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPaceBar Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 @Vince B. That's what I did, the only difference was that my rectangles had a fill applied. I removed that and it still didn't crash. I will log the issue with your file and pass the information on to the development team. Just out of interest, can you tell me where you store the file? Is it on a local drive / network drive / cloud storage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince B. Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 The file is stored on the mbpro hdd (yes, 14 years old mac!) SPaceBar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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