Pentoolist Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 You can see clearly that I am grasping at straws. The series of screenshots show one attempt to disengage the leaves where they are connected. I started by deleting segments, by control-clicking on them. Then I tried to use the pen tool to "patch" the individual leaf shapes, which obviously did not work: strokes are not actually connected, and the fill is still connected… I have the workbook, which is amazing, but it is not an instruction manual by any means. Other than Affinity Designer Help and the forum, is there some mechanism to learn the details of designer that I do not know about? Affinity Designer Help works sometimes… Thank you for any help you can provide, it is much appreciated! Leaf connection Prob.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 In the second image you see both selected nodes are marked in red. You may only need to reverse the nodes of the smaller right handed curve, and then join curves, and close curve. An open curve has a start (red) and end node. When joining curves, it is important that you can only join a start with an end node. Below a video from iPad. Same method applies to Desktop version. all was done using node tool. FullSizeRender.MOV 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...
Pentoolist Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 NOTMYFAULT, thank you for taking the time to make the video. I think I get the general idea, now I will try to replicate what you did. NotMyFault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 NotMyFault 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 This can be a quick time saver in the majority of simple cases. Never the less, the knowledge about start / end nodes of open curves will serve users in other and more complex cases. 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...
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