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Hello.

 

I made abstract deer with triangles. When i try to join shapes (triangles) into one with Operations: Add I get following problem which can be seen on screenshot 2.

Is there any other way to join shapes without getting problem/loosing shapes i made.

 

Thank you in advance! :)

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Why are you trying to add them all together? If you do that the resulting "(Curves)" shape -- note the plural -- can only have one color. Is that what you want?

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Choose the Node Tool and drag on the middle of the edge of one of the triangles so that it curves outwards to overlap the edge of the adjacent triangle, and then repeat with the remaining triangles until they all overlap slightly. Now when you ‘add’ them you will get a single shape with no extra lines.

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If you want a single fill but multiple lines, you will need to duplicate everything. Select all, copy to the system clipboard and ‘add’ the shapes after tweaking as described earlier, and then paste back the copied individual triangles so that you get your lines back.

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Thank you for the help. One more question. I dont really get what you mean by "Node Tool and drag on the middle of the edge of one of the triangles so that it curves outwards to overlap the edge of the adjacent triangle, and then repeat with the remaining triangles until they all overlap slightly". What do i need to do with node tool exactly? like add points and overlap them over triangle which is under one im editing?

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1 hour ago, tterihaj said:

I am trying to simplify them in bigger shapes which are easier to edit, since i ll export it as EPS and i want my person who ll download the file to be able to edit it easy.

If you combine them into bigger shapes, each of them still must have their own individual fill & stroke type (a solid color or one of the gradient options). So you can't have both bigger shapes & at the same time have smaller triangular subsections in them that retain different fills or strokes. A shape is defined by a single path -- there is no way to get around that.

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1 hour ago, tterihaj said:

What do i need to do with node tool exactly? like add points and overlap them over triangle which is under one im editing?

 

No, you don't add any points/nodes. You just hover over the middle of the line, mouse down to 'grab' it and then keep the mouse button held down while you move to a new position. The line will bend, but no new nodes will be added when you mouse up.

 

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2 minutes ago, owenr said:

Attached doc contains one shape with three paths.

Technically, it is a Curves layer containing three shapes, each with its own path. The 'one fill/one stroke color' rule still applies to Curves layers created by the Add operation. That is not how you made your example (which would have filled in the two interior transparent areas) & is not relevant to what the OP wanted to do.

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40 minutes ago, owenr said:

Actually, my example is one shape comprised of three paths (curves in Affinityspeak).

 

In Affinityspeak, your example is one 'Curves' object, not three. If divided, that object (also known as a polycurve) will yield three closed curves.

 

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7 minutes ago, owenr said:

Nobody has claimed my example is three Curves objects.

 

My apologies. That is simply how I (mis)read the part of your previous post where you wrote:

 

1 hour ago, owenr said:

comprised of three paths (curves in Affinityspeak)

 

It looked very much as though you were equating paths with curves, and stating that there are three of them in your example.

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13 minutes ago, owenr said:

Sorry. I could have phrased things a little more clearly.

 

Apology accepted! :P

 

13 minutes ago, owenr said:

It's easy for miscommunication to develop over the the word "curves" when the Affinity apps have both "Curve" and "Curves" objects.

 

I completely agree. If Serif had continued to call them “polycurves” as they did for their Plus range of software, there would have been little room for confusion. (The other thing they seem to have abandoned is an indication of whether or not a curve is closed.)

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7 hours ago, owenr said:

I'm fully aware that what I did (convert Art Text to Curves) and what the OP wants to do are different, but my post was in response to your, in my opinion, misinformation which I specifically quoted: "A shape is defined by a single path -- there is no way to get around that."

To avoid confusion, I used "shape" in the same sense that the OP did:

17 hours ago, tterihaj said:

When i try to join shapes (triangles) into one with Operations: Add I get following problem ...

IOW, "a geometric figure such as a square, triangle, or rectangle," which if you look it up is one of the several definitions of the word found in any ordinary dictionary.

 

Regarding "polycurve," it is a term specific to a few software apps but it does not have a definition consistent across them all. For example, this definition from Rhino is simply "A curve consisting of two or more curves joined together." In Affinity-speak, that would be any curve with more than two nodes, open or closed.

 

"Curves" may not be the best possible choice to avoid confusion, but particularly considering that the Rhino definition or its equivalent is what Google & similar search engines fill the first page of hits with it, IMO "polycurve" would be a far worse choice.

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Alfred, I tried it your way but i didnt get wanted result (its diplayed on screenshot), I got whole shape yes but with no lines seen between them. I want to join all this triangles/curves into one whole shape, so when i go to pen tool, i can adjust all the points of this triangles/lines, something like owenr showed with G shape.

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6 hours ago, R C-R said:

Regarding "polycurve," it is a term specific to a few software apps but it does not have a definition consistent across them all. For example, this definition from Rhino is simply "A curve consisting of two or more curves joined together." In Affinity-speak, that would be any curve with more than two nodes, open or closed.

 

I’m afraid I can’t agree with the concluding sentence in that paragraph. If you refer to the definitions on this page from Rhino, you’ll see that the word “polycurve” is not used in the descriptions of the InterpCrv and Sketch methods, despite the fact that the resultant curves clearly have more than two nodes. I think it’s simply that their definition of a polycurve is poorly worded: if you “combine” any two curves, or if you “add” two non-overlapping curves, you get a polycurve.

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34 minutes ago, tterihaj said:

Alfred, I tried it your way but i didnt get wanted result (its diplayed on screenshot), I got whole shape yes but with no lines seen between them. I want to join all this triangles/curves into one whole shape, so when i go to pen tool, i can adjust all the points of this triangles/lines, something like owenr showed with G shape.

 

Your screenshot shows the shape as it appears when selected with the Move Tool. You need to switch to the Node Tool if you want to adjust the nodes/points.

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6 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I’m afraid I can’t agree with the concluding sentence in that paragraph. If you refer to the definitions on this page from Rhino, you’ll see that the word “polycurve” is not used in the descriptions of the InterpCrv and Sketch methods, despite the fact that the resultant curves clearly have more than two nodes. I think it’s simply that their definition of a polycurve is poorly worded.

The definition on that page is essentially the same as all the others I could find, basically that "A polycurve is several curve segments joined together end to end," or words to that effect. It is a very generic term, including polygons, "polylines," the curves that result from various curve fitting methods, & so on. It would include all the parametrically adjustable Affinity shapes like stars, cogs, & donuts/pies, & anything drawn with the Pen Tool except for straight 2 node lines.

 

The word has no common everyday definition that I could find in any regular online dictionary. As best as I can tell it a somewhat obscure bit of technical jargon unique to a few, mostly 3D apps, however it might have been used in the Serif apps not withstanding.

 

I have mentioned before that I am not a big fan of the "(Curves)" designator -- it is too easy to overlook the "s" & for named layers or deeply nested layer hierarchies it is likely to be truncated in the Layers panel, but I would be even less a fan of "(Polycurve)" -- it just seems much too generic & confusing to me. What I would really like are more compact, iconic designators for layer types, ideally appearing on the left before names, similar to the Frame & Artistic text designators, but I know not everyone would like that either.

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48 minutes ago, Alfred said:

 

Your screenshot shows the shape as it appears when selected with the Move Tool. You need to switch to the Node Tool if you want to adjust the nodes/points.

I switched to node tool and to pen tool and it still is not the effect i wanted. Lines between triangles are gone.

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6 minutes ago, tterihaj said:

Lines between triangles are gone.

 

The lines are gone because the triangles are gone! If you want to adjust the shapes, there’s no way to do it after you’ve added them together: you have to go back to the original triangles, make your adjustments, create copies as described earlier and then add them together again.

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14 minutes ago, R C-R said:

What I would really like are more compact, iconic designators for layer types, ideally appearing on the left before names, similar to the Frame & Artistic text designators, but I know not everyone would like that either.

 

That’s the problem in a nutshell, isn’t it? The developers are never going to please everyone!

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