VectorCat Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 when I have two paths to join, it crosses over..in other words, rather than joining both of their right ends, it joins the right end of one path to the left point of the other path. reverse curves helps none at all. How can I instruct AD to join the paths I want in the way I want to join them? Is this impossible in AD? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 OK..it seems that in AD, you have to begin with a closed shape, then cut off the bit you want, and close THAT. rinse and repeat for as many paths as you're doing. I'm accustomed to getting all the little path segments cut loose first and THEN joining those... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 Select the paths you want to join, drag the end node of one over the end node of the other, go to the context toolbar, action section and press join curves. Make sure you have Snap to Selected Curves (on the context toolbar) activated in the Node tool. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 From the sound of that, you can't join ends without changing the shape of the paths involved, am I correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 It's joining the closest ends together of all the open curves in the selection... in the future, I would want to be able to select the end nodes I was interested in and just join those together. Hope that makes some sense? :) Matt GRScott 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 makes sense to me..that's what I'm after, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 22, 2015 From the sound of that, you can't join ends without changing the shape of the paths involved, am I correct? Yes, if you drag one of the nodes you're changing the corresponding path. Currently If you don't want to move them you can only do it manually drawing a path conecting the ends you want and joining them. Matt's improvement will make this easier in the future. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hey Matt, I thought this was working a while back. I've just tried connecting two different straight path ends and can't. What am I missing? This is pretty fundamental stuff is it not...? See attached, I'm trying to connect the 2 horizontal lines with a vertical line... (shown as dashed) Sorry for sounding perturbed but I am perturbed ;) Latest beta 1.1.2.22384 Is this broken in the beta? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 5, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2015 It's working fine here, i mean the same way as it was previously. Have you enabled Snap to selected curves before pressing the Join Curves button? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 It's not really working as expected here either. Check out this quick screen grab to see what I mean... join curves bug.mov Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 5, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2015 It's working the same way it was before. If you draw two lines and press Join Curves Affinity will create a line to join the closest end points of the paths. In this case (when you want that Affinity create a line to join the paths) you don't need to have Snap to selected curves enabled. When you want to join two paths dragging one end node of one path over the other (without creating an additional path to joint them) you must have Snap to selected curves enabled. @retrograde It always worked like this. If it seems to have worked for you earlier, it's probably because the end nodes of the paths you wanted to join were the closets ones? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 So @MEB, AD disregards the two nodes I selected to join and chooses the two closest ones? Hmmm, that's really odd behavior... I would prefer it if the app let me choose where I want to join the curves. Maybe it's on the roadmap... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 5, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2015 Exactly. MattP is already aware of this and he will change the behaviour to join the selected nodes (instead of the closest ones). Just give him some time. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 If that's how it's always been then I guess I haven't tried to join to separate paths like that before... I agree that that behaviour is unexpected and it should respect your node selection as the default. Hope this will be fixed soon. :) Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Got it @MEB, thanks for clarifying that. At least there's a viable work-around, that's the most important thing for now. I totally understand, the team is plenty busy laying out this amazing groundwork, and many of these smaller "issues" will be corrected in due time... Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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