midiankai Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I want to move away from adobe since it became slow and lackluster performance wise, BUT here is the problem, i dont see any alternatives to Illustrator pathfinder pallette, im doing alot of screen printing and i like to merge my artwork in illustrator and then ungroup it and separate each color to separate layer. Can i do that in affinity designer? AffinityAppMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted February 2, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 2, 2017 Hi midiankai, Welcome to the forums. If you're looking for similar tools to Illustrator's Pathfinder, Affinity Designer has some on it's Toolbar under Operations. From the right hand side it's the second section in, it has Add, Subtract, Intersect, Divide and Combine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connie Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I too am looking for the same thing. Affinity's operations are the 'Shape Modes' in Illustrator, but AI's pathfinder modifies nodes. It's really about the paths than shapes. Is there a way to do this in Affinity yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 ?? There is no difference if you use shapes or drawn paths. Try Layer>Geometry> Fruitbasket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristaG Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Checking in to see if there is an ETA for this feature. I too screen print and the Illustrator merge tool saves a lot of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Illustrator has similar geometry tools but also has Pathfinder tools... I've posted this so you understand what the OP is asking for. The Pathfinder: Merge option will retain all of the shapes colours, a bit like creating a compound object, so in Affinity you can use Layer > Create Compound and the colour used for an object which is placed at the lowest layer becomes the colour of the compound but... In illustrator using the Pathfinder: Merge retains all of the objects original colours and dependant upon where the objects are in the layer hierarchy and whether there is overlap of higher layers dictates whether the object gets subtracted from (see example of the illustrator Pathfinder: Merge in action) Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintcar Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Is there any way of doing this in Affinity Designer? It's a must-have feature for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 There is no easy or automatic way to achieve the same thing. You can do it all by hand, duplicating and subtracting pairs of shapes as required, but it is cumbersome compared to the Pathfinder approach. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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