Strokes

[Raybeam]

Making and deleting a point(node) Affinity Designer 2 on a shape or stroke should be easier, for example: click on stroke with pen tool and hitting delete should delete the stroke between nodes. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I always found this to be more intuitive when using Adobe Illustrator in the past. 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Raybeam

While using the Node Tool, if you hover your mouse pointer over a curve segment you will see in the Status Bar (at the bottom of the application window) the method you can use to delete a segment of a curve – on Windows it’s Ctrl+click. 

If you hold Ctrl down while using the Pen Tool there's a mention in the Status Bar that you can delete a segment via Ctrl+click but that just creates a new node (for me on Windows anyway).

[Hangman]

@Raybeam, welcome to the forums...

If you use the Node tool and hold the Ctrl key while clicking on the sections of the stroke you want to remove you can achieve this, if I've understood correctly what you are wanting to do...

[Raybeam]

Thank you both, does this work with shapes? For instance, I used the rectangle tool and tried to use the node tool just like your video but it doesn't add a node on the rectangle. It works on a stroke I create with a pen but not on the shape created with the tool.

[Hangman]

1 minute ago, Raybeam said:

Does this work with shapes?

No, you need to convert the shape to a curve first...

[Raybeam]

Ah ok, thank you!