Affinity Designer Macro for closed curve

[FPilou]

Affinity Designer V1 
Can we make a Macro who close curves on each Layer ? For Fill each face...
On this very simple PDF who was created with an another program for example

Thanks in advance!

pol.pdf

[walt.farrell]

Designer doesn't support Macros. Only Photo has them.

[NotMyFault]

Your example file contains some curves, which reflect roughly edges which mark the surface of a 3D object.

I interpret your request that you want to get a closed curve for every visible surface area, build by using the edges and combining them to a closed curve (one edge is needed multiple times, mainly 1 or 2 times, for 2 surfaces who share the edge).

The grouping of layers (used for clipping) should be ignored for combining surface edges (you need edges from multiple layers groups for one surface)

Just „closing the curves“ (using the current „close curve“ function would not deliver any useful results.

• the curves like the bottom from cylinder needs to be trimmed to cut of unused parts
• This tasks needs some 3D functionality which is not at all available in designer.
• The edges can be ambiguous (overlapping), and the layer sequence gives no actual „depth“ information.

Just to „manage expectations“ i personally rate this functionality very unlikely to come anytime soon. It is not a simple macro recording - which Walt already pointed out is not available at all in Designer - and record otherwise existing functionality.

otherwise, it would be a nice feature to get, of course.

[FPilou]

Many thanks for the enlightening infos! 

So maybe in Affinity Photo...theoretical desesperate case! 

[NotMyFault]

Never the less, the Shape Builder tool allows you to easily select and create the surface areas.

(I‘m really bad at using this new tool)

[FPilou]

Seems amazing but...You say "new tool" : it's just in the Affinity V2 ?

[Old Bruce]

29 minutes ago, FPilou said:

Seems amazing but...You say "new tool" : it's just in the Affinity V2 ?

It is in Designer 2 and only in Designer 2.

[R C-R]

11 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Never the less, the Shape Builder tool allows you to easily select and create the surface areas.

(I‘m really bad at using this new tool)

I always forget that it only works with selected objects & that this tool cannot select them. Also, in the example given, it seems to work best if the groups are combined into a Layer container layer than if the 5 groups are all selected on the layers panel but not combined into a Layer.

[NotMyFault]

12 hours ago, R C-R said:

I always forget that it only works with selected objects & that this tool cannot select them. Also, in the example given, it seems to work best if the groups are combined into a Layer container layer than if the 5 groups are all selected on the layers panel but not combined into a Layer.

I added the Layer layer on top as workaround, otherwise Designer would add the new „surface“ curves inside the top group which was confusing for me.

[FPilou]

 

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It is in Designer 2 and only in Designer 2.

So i must find some tricks for have separated  faces with commun edges in my start program! 😅

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

I added the Layer layer on top as workaround, otherwise Designer would add the new „surface“ curves inside the top group which was confusing for me.

I thought that was confusing too ... & maybe even a bug or at least not an intentional design decision.

BTW, as for the workaround, a Group layer works as well as Layer layer as a container for the curve groups.

[FPilou]

Ok i have found a process on my start Prog! (my site about Moi3D)

Tips
Better if the original objects are Boolean Union and generator line of cylinder hidden

The complete easy final Process!
Of course each closed curve can be Style colorized and Named inside Moi!
for have directly named Layers inside Affinity V1! (no made here)

With this you can name automatically some Styles (so futur Layers) as you want
for have something more elaborated than "Default" following!

(Calque = Layer, Courbe = Curve)

Et voilà !

Intersection with a Plane of the re-imported PDF