How to Join Curves?

[AndiR]

I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong when trying to join curves.

1. I have two separate curves
2. I have snapped them together
3. I've selected both curves with the node tool and clicked "Join Curves"
4. But if I click on that center node and drag it, it's still actually two nodes. I'm trying to make it one node. Any ideas??

 

 

[MEB]

Hi AndiR

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

There's still a few circumstances like the example you posted above where this can happen. We are aware of these issues (they are already logged) and hope to have improvements here in a future update/version. Make sure you zoom considerably when snapping the objects as it seems to fail when you are not zoomed in enough. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[gdenby]

I tried to recreate the problem. I had a similar result when the nodes at the center point were not in the exact same position. That is, the x position might be off .001" between the 2 nodes. I could see the slight mis-alignment at 2000+% zoom. W. snapping to object geometry turned on, I was able to manually get a good snap that allowed a continuous join.

 

My guess is that the way you are making and positioning the curve sections is not quite precise and/or a slight mouse move is messing up the positions.

[MEB]

The nodes should overlap correctly with snap enabled. However this seems to vary depending on the zoom level, which shouldn't happen.

[Alfred]

4. But if I click on that center node and drag it, it's still actually two nodes. I'm trying to make it one node. Any ideas??

 

Select the object with the Move Tool, switch to the Node Tool and marquee-select the pair of overlapping nodes. Shift-clicking on the top one will deselect it, leaving the bottom one still selected, and you can then press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the selected node so that you only have the other one left.

[AndiR]

Thanks, all. I still have the problem on my original curves. However, when I re-drew them (I created a circle, converted it to curves, then split it), it didn't seem to happen. I'm thinking somehow I got an extra node in the first version (even though I created it the same way).

 

Alfred, unfortunately deleting the extra node didn't work as it changed the shape of the curve, which I was trying to avoid.

 

Andi