merging anchors (or nodes)

[brunoperry]

Hi all!

 

Im a new Affinity Designer user coming from Illustrator and other CAD programs.

 

I've been struggling a bit with the user experience with affinity, apparently I need to "relearn" how to use basic CAD operations such as joining 2 anchor points? This is a bit annoying and it feels a bit like reinventing the wheel...

 

How do I merge two end anchor points together?

 

cheers!

[MEB]

Hi brunoperry,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Select the Node Tool drag one of the end nodes over the other (make sure you have snapping enabled), then drag a marquee selection around them (to select both) and press Join Curves from the context toolbar. If instead of nodes you have two paths selected this command will connect the closest nodes with a line. There's also a command to Close a Curve (shape) there.

[Jens Schmidt]

When I use this method designer creates a line between the two points instead of merging them 

[Jens Schmidt]

10th time the charm

[Jens Schmidt]

It seems to be a priority error, 'Align to Nodes..' does not take precedence over ''Snap to Geometry..' hence leaving a snap that you think goes to the node off enough to create redundant lines.
Also, the tool tips should all use 'snap' to avoid confusion.

While I'm at it, I really need a button to accelerate/force the "hover mouse over another object for a second to set it as aligning help", the function is awesome but it doesn't always activate and when it does it takes time

Edited July 2, 2020 by Jens Schmidt
I criticized your Tool Tip wording with a broken sentence, it has now been fixed :D

[Ragu]

Select two nodes to merge, use close

Edited April 12, 2021 by Ragu

[MEB]

Hi @Ragu,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Close, will close the shape if it's an open path. If the nodes are from different paths, Close will close both paths so each one forms a shape - it does NOT connect the nodes of the different paths through a line.

[pixeldroid]

The capability to merge points would certainly be useful and in some cases an order of magnitude more efficient when editing. It's a basic function.

[dantaylr]

On 12/19/2021 at 8:23 AM, pixeldroid said:

The capability to merge points would certainly be useful and in some cases an order of magnitude more efficient when editing. It's a basic function.

Agreed. Here's an example. I'd like to merge these two points into one that is in the average center of both of them. If I drag them to approximately the same location with node snap on the join button up top isn't visible. So I break them and then join them again. The result is still two points with a miniature spider web of handles. 

[Old Bruce]

Have you tried deleting just one of them?

[dantaylr]

8 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Have you tried deleting just one of them?

Yes. That was the workaround. It wouldn't be as convenient with more points but there are other ways. This would be a nice feature to include in that tray regardless, as I've seen it in other apps.

[dantaylr]

This is not okay. Am I missing something? I have snap to nodes turned on and snap to geometry turned off.

If there is actually a way to do this I would additionally suggest a button to merge all selected vertices into a single one. I've seen this in Blender.

[dantaylr]

If I could simply delete the point I would but the path isn't approximated correctly after the deletion. Path approximation after deletion beautifully happens when you delete a node in the Glyphs app for Mac.