brunoperry Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 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! Zatlap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 30, 2016 Staff Share Posted November 30, 2016 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. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Schmidt Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 When I use this method designer creates a line between the two points instead of merging them keiichi77 and Zatlap 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Schmidt Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 10th time the charm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Schmidt Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) 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 Aammppaa, Zatlap and sfriedberg 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragu Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) Select two nodes to merge, use close Edited April 12, 2021 by Ragu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 12, 2021 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. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixeldroid Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 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. keiichi77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantaylr Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Have you tried deleting just one of them? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantaylr Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantaylr Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 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. RPReplay_Final1685388876.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantaylr Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 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. keiichi77 and xicus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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