havocsforge Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 I have been fiddling with the break and close curve options for about 30 minutes not and i cant figure out how to turn this circle into not a circle. Frankly, the break curve tool confuses me. I have used it often, and occasionally it will do what i am wanting, and other times it spazes out completely I can get one side to here but if i try to delete just the right side point i get the second picture Could i get a detailed explanation of how the break curve tool functions so that i can try to figure out what i am doing wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Hard to tell from the screen shots but it could be coincident nodes. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havocsforge Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 What are those? I finally got it to look how i wanted but many extra steps were involved. I had to add a rectangle and subtract it, then make it the shape i wanted. Seems vert unintuitive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Why not simply use the segment tool? https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_segment.html Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 The Break Curve will quite simply open a node or selection of nodes. Because it has to operate on nodes it can't be used on a shape ex. rectangle, ellipse, etc. If you have an ellipse it must be converted to curves, which will result in 4 nodes. If one node is selected you will see no difference. But the curve goes from a closed curve to an open curve. If two nodes are selected you will end up with 2 curves. Either a 90 degree arc and a 270 degree arc, or two 180 degree arcs depending on the 2 nodes selected. These will be open curves that are created. If they need to be closed curves then you can select the curve and click on the Close Curve right next to the Break Curve. Of course you can add nodes anywhere they are needed and break the curve on these nodes as well as the 4 original nodes. That's really all there is to the Break Curve. I can't tell from your screen shots what you did to get the objects shown in the second and third images. I've never had it not react as expected. Maybe you can explain in more detail exactly what you are trying to do and the steps taken when it doesn't work for you. Also, which Affinity product are you working in? Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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