Shape Builder failed

[Rawi]

Hi, I'm Rawi, I usually draw illustrations for cars. there is something in my designer affinity today

I don't know why this happened, before I updated to 2.3 it was safe for the shape builder tool. I used to select all the lines then tidy them up with the shape builder but after I updated to 2.3 I can no longer do that. and not just the shape builder tool, when I use the feature to fill in color it just doesn't work even though it could before. I hope to find a solution here.

 

[Hangman]

Hi @Rawi and welcome to the forums,

Would you be able to upload one of your Affinity Designer files where you're experiencing the problem so we can take a look at what might be going on?

[frm5993]

Anything on this? i have the same problem periodically.

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @frm5993

Hangman asked Rawi for an example document which exhibited the problem but they have not yet done that, so we cannot know what the problem is/was.

If you are having a similar problem then I would suggest that you follow the same advice and attach a document so that we can experiment with the intention of diagnosing the issue.

Otherwise, without something to look at, we are just guessing.

[ronnieVB]

Hello, I have the same issue. I am sending a file in which the error is happening. 

logo.afdesign

[GarryP]

One thing which sometimes ‘trips the software up’ is when nodes have the same position, or when a curve ‘bends back on itself sharply’, or various other things which have been mentioned in the forums.

And there’s a chance that there are simply too many nodes for the software to handle in such a complex design.

As it is, there are way too many curves and nodes for us to check them all manually/individually (without some luck).

If you can narrow the problem down to a much smaller number of layers then that might help us to see what the problem is.