Divide Bug

[ahmadfaizshofiyullah]

I have been creating many icons in V1 faster than shape builder in V2, Because in V2 is not recommended because the divide tool is not like V1. I wonder is it bug or just new feature in V2. if it was the feature, I feel bad because divide in V1 faster and easier than shape builder V2 (if creating many icons). i hope affinity can make the divide in V2 like in V1

(Please watch the video) 

[Jan Aschenbrenner]

I confirm that Divide is not working
It complicates the work a lot

[Sean P]

Hi,
As it has been mentioned in the other thread below, the actual operation you're looking for is the Layer > Geometry > Separate Curves. 

Divide is really intended to break  multiple selected objects up by their overlapping parts. As demonstrated below.  If you have a single 'Curves' object and want to separate out its multiple curve components as shown in the V1 example in the video then Separate Curves is the actual operation.

However this has still been passed over to development to make V2 Divide respond in the same way as V1 when users are wanting to separate their curves.

 

[4dimage]

Can confirm that.

This is my demo file with a Fontawesome icon converted to path.

v2-path-divide-test-fail.afdesign

In this case with the path selected i can only either use boolean "add (Hinzufügen)" or "separate (Aufteilen)".

In v2 separate has no effect:

 

In v1 the same path works as expected:

 

 

[Ron P.]

Separate Curves seems to work fine for me. The layer must be Curves Layer, not a Curve (not plural) layer.

[François R]

Designer v2 does it right!

For this result you need a break apart / separate curves operation. V1 just did it differently/wrong.

[4dimage]

Thanks! That does the trick!

[saraartist]

9 hours ago, Ron P. said:

Separate Curves seems to work fine for me. The layer must be Curves Layer, not a Curve (not plural) layer.

Wait what the heck is the difference between a curve and a curves with an s and how do i convert a shape to a curveS ?

I am following a tutorial from v1 that used the divide function but separate curves isn't working for what i am trying to do either

[saraartist]

I am still trying to figure out what I should do... from this forum, I believe I want the divide function, not separate curves. However when I click divide, it does NOT divide. I attached the project file and also a brief video demonstrating my issue.

affinity typography proj.afdesign

[Ron P.]

You have Curve A and Curve B. They must overlap, then go to Layer>Geometry>Merge Curves. Now instead of having 2 Curve Layers, you have 1 Curves Layer. To break them apart, just go to Layer>Geometry>Separate Curves.

 

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Divide no longer performs a separate curves action on single objects" (REF: AFD-6176) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1742/3".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.