Affinity Designer: Making a specific shape

[SteveRoberts]

Friends,

I'd like to find the best way to make a shape like this and still be able to control the stroke weight.

This one was formed by making a rounded corner rectangle and then covering half with a white box, which will not be sufficient to move forward with this project.

Tips and suggestions greatly appreciated.

SR

 

[dominik]

53 minutes ago, SteveRoberts said:

I'd like to find the best way to make a shape like this and still be able to control the stroke weight.

This one was formed by making a rounded corner rectangle and then covering half with a white box, which will not be sufficient to move forward with this project.
 

Hello @SteveRoberts,

you are starting right with a rounded corner rectangle. You do not specify in which application you are working, I assume it is Affinity Designer.

Next use the Knive Tool holding SHIFT to cut the rectangle into two pieces. Delete the lower one.

Switch over to the Node Tool (A) and select the two bottom nodes. From the icon bar at the top click on 'Break curve' (is is the second from left of the word 'Action:'

Now with the Node Tool hover over the bottom horizontal line and press CTRL. The mouse curse displays an additional 'X'. Click! and the bottom line is gone.

This is your basic object.

Make sure you see the Appearance palette. With the object selected you can adjust line width and colour and many other things.

d.

[SteveRoberts]

That worked like a charm. Thank you very much!

[v_kyr]

There are different ways to do that, here's an easy to do one via ADe ...

1. Pen Tool
2. Corner Tool
    
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ADDON:  forgotten to mention that you can, instead of what I've shown above, select both corner nodes together and thus bent them equally together with the Corner tool. Also make the lenghts with the Pen tool equal long, I didn't in this just quick made how-to showup.

 

 

[SteveRoberts]

Thanks very much for providing these solutions!