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What about trim too? Something like in AutoCAD? You have 2 crossed lines in vector. With this tool you click to one line and its trimmed, so parth of line where you click is deleted to to close intersection with other line. This can be big help.

How people do you it now? Im clicking  in line with Node tool and click to broke line and one parth of line I delete. Problem is snap to intescection point. Snap dont work very well. I have to click other line, then end of celection and fast click to line that I want trim. If I draw something like building in perspective view, I draw many lines from perspective points. Its many cutting its want many time. With this tool its can be do soooo easy and fast.

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I also hope for the a bolean trim function. The few bolean functions offered makes for awkward back-engineering to do a simple task. A trim function can result in cleaner files, and less garbage overlap piling up. When working in wireframe the piled up overlapping objects can look like a rats nest. Please add a trim bolean function.

Okay I'm back to update and add that I had not used the Shape Builder Tool before. After decades of working with the "Other" software my practise is going through massive change. After purchasing and struggling with Affinity Designer V1, my enthusiasm waned. Then finally purchasing a new mac some months back and swearing off the "Other" subscription sucking software(rentier capitalism). My point being that the Shape Builder tool is doing a lot of what I used the old trim tool(bolean) to do. Still working with a larger cluster of shapes does get a little like picking fly s**t out of pepper.

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7 hours ago, ChintaM said:

Please add a trim tool as part of shape builder tools. It's very important for a complex kind of shape design.

Welcome to the Affinity forums.

As the Shape Builder already has a trim function (see the recording from @GarryP above) I'm curious what you need that it doesn't already provide.

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20 minutes ago, 2ddpainter said:

maybe such behavior

Isn't that exactly what @GarryP showed the Shape Builder doing today in his recording above?

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Isn't that exactly what @GarryP showed the Shape Builder doing today in his recording above?

No - the shapes of the curves are completely different.
Now it's exactly the same 🙂

 

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2 minutes ago, 2ddpainter said:

 indeed 🙂

So you agree the function already exists?

(Or is there something I'm still missing or misunderstanding?)

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

So you agree the function already exists?

of course I agree, no problem with that 🙂

and the people who ask for such a tool
will now know that the Shape Builder Tool
can also work like a Trim Tool

I wasn't really sure because the first video
looked a bit tedious and slow

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