Affinity Designer - What Does Cause Tracing Fills The Object In A Wrong Way And How Can I Fix It?

[Mainecoon364]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdeywewkzn6ru6h/Affinity Designer - Tracing Goes Wrong.png?dl=0

 

What Does Cause Tracing Fills The Object In A Wrong Way?

 

I guess there are two separate tracing on the object you see.

 

How can I fix this?

 

 

[walt.farrell]

There are no automatic tracing functions in the applications, which leads to a question: If tracing is involved, how did you do it?

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, Mainecoon364 said:

I guess there are two separate tracing on the object you see.

No need to guess! That’s exactly what happened. If you fill an unclosed curve which has start and end nodes that don’t coincide, you get this:

Join that curve to the other one (and, optionally, close it) to get the result you want.

[Mainecoon364]

Step 1) So I select the node a with Pen Tool then choose b. Right?

 

Step 2) I select the node c with Pen Tool then choose d. Right?

 

Step 3) Then how do I remove the line X? (I think the nodes a and c are still connected.)

 

 

[Alfred]

I don’t understand your steps 1 and 2. In particular, I don’t understand where nodes b and d come from.

The line X at step 3 is just a straight line between nodes a and c. There is no straight line segment there: those two nodes are only connected to each other via the curve with the cusp at the bottom.

What you’ve shared on Dropbox (why not directly here?) is this:

As I said in my previous post:

18 hours ago, Alfred said:

If you fill an unclosed curve which has start and end nodes that don’t coincide, you get this:

Join that curve to the other one (and, optionally, close it) to get the result you want.

In other words, choose the Node Tool, select both the upper curve (whose fill you want to get rid of) and the lower curve, and choose the ‘Join Curves’ option to give you one curve instead of two.