Adding shapes leaves internal stroke lines - is this expected?

[Skids]

I am not experienced with Affinity Designer and have run into an issues when merging two shapes.  Following the merge the new shape still shows an internal stroke line at the point of join.

I suspect that the issue is to do with the complex method at arriving at the two shapes.  Both shapes were constructed from using the pie tool to create a thin wedge that was itself "cut" using a circle with a smaller diameter.  Once a single shape was created it was duplicated and rotated about the centre of the original circle forming a ring of shapes. The process was repeated creating a second inner circle of shapes (green).  Please see the attached screen shot.

I wish to merge a couple of the inner and outer segments creating two larger shapes.  When I select an inner and outer shape and press the add button the two are joined but the inner join line remains.

I have cut two pieces out should anyone care to try and reproduce or fix the problem.

I have confirmed that simple shapes may be added without internal stroke lines appearing.

best wishes

S

MergefailureExample.afdesign

[v_kyr]

20 minutes ago, Skids said:

When I select an inner and outer shape and press the add button the two are joined but the inner join line remains.

Check and try that the shapes do overlap slightly and not just adjoin/bump to each other.

[Skids]

Great, thanks for the help.  Now redrawn with a good overlap and the self inflicted issue is solved.

Now I'll try with the donut tool.

best wishes

S

[firstdefence]

I created a similar segmented circle using the donut shape.

1. Created the outer donut 200mm x 200mm with the hole radius set to 75%
2. Used the measure tool to find the hole diameter (149.503mm)
3. Duplicated the first donut and resized it to 149.503mm (making sure the central anchor is selected on the Anchor Point Selector on the Transform Panel) and using a hole radius of 90%
4. Set the start angle to 0º and the end angle to 15º with a total angle being 15º for both donut shapes.
5. Grouped both shapes and duplicated the group and using the transform panel the the R: to 15
6. Duplicated until the circle was complete
7. Selected a group, and selected the child layers and holding option down clicked on the boolean add icon to create a compound, this allows you to edit the shapes.

 

 

[Skids]

I was 3 minutes behind you.  The donut tool is certainly the better way of creating the circular segments and as you say allows for duplication and resizing.

Thanks again,

 

S

[v_kyr]

You can also tryout the Cog Tool for the upper part ...

 

 

[Skids]

Just tried the cog tool, I can't find a way of filling individual segments but that could just be me.

 

[v_kyr]

10 minutes ago, Skids said:

Just tried the cog tool, I can't find a way of filling individual segments but that could just be me.

You have to geometrical divide it first, so it's got split into seperate individual usable shape/vector segments. - Sometimes, though not always needed, it's also good to first convert prebuild shapes to curves first (menu Layers -> Convert to curves) in order to get an overall better vector handling of them.