Trouble merging (or ‘flattening’) layers in Affinity - is there an erase button?

[Jordan Lee]

I started using Affinity on my iPad back on November and I have pretty much given up on trying to flatten or merge layers using the functions in the screenshot. The layer stacking can be quite overwhelming without the ability to flatten some of them. But all my attempts have failed. Anybody in the Affinity community know how to merge or flatten the contents of a layer?

Also, is there an erase button in the Affinity vector program?

I love this program so far and it has real potential and I hope to figure out a few hiccups so that I can do most of my work on my iPad. 

[Affinity Rat]

In order to merge 2 or more layers you must select what layers to merge. Click on one layer then use two fingers to click again on another layer to include them in the selection.

In you screenshot I only see 1 layer selected.

 

[NotMyFault]

Merging is a pixel based function. You have lots of groups in the layer stack, and I can’t see if the child layers are pixel or vector layers.

Do you want to stay vector? Then merging is the wrong approach.

otherwise, try rasterize on one of the groups. You can then use merge down to combine multiple pixel layers.