theMatthias Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) Hey there, I am using Affinity Designer 2 for vectorize some analog drawings. For this i take a photo of the drawing and redraw it via pencil tool. For getting (faster) closed shaped, it would be fine to connect all crossed lines? Instead of connecting all lines separately, my idea was to draw all lines a bit longer to cross the other line and connect them later (automatically) if this is possible. Best regards Matthias Edited August 28 by theMatthias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Welcome to the forums @theMatthias Can you give us more information about what you mean by “connect” and “crossed lines”? If you can give us a visual example that would probably help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 hour ago, theMatthias said: connect all crossed lines? Affinity cannot branch lines. You can use clipping to visual cut longer lines with a shape. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 You can combine several… … nodes with the Node Tool + its Context Toolbar options "Close Curve" or "Join Curves". … open or closed curves with menu Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves. … closed curves with Geometry > Add. For open curves a fill colour will be created in a straight line between start and end node. Accordingly, a straight curve will not display its fill colour. The result may depend a lot on your arrangement + shape of curves. Here one more understanding of your description with visual results: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 7 hours ago, theMatthias said: Instead of connecting all lines separately, my idea was to draw all lines a bit longer to cross the other line and connect them later (automatically) if this is possible. Similar to what @Pšenda said above, note that nodes can connect no more than 2 line segments, so there is no way to connect three or more segments where they cross. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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