Break Curve and Join Curve not working.

[Gear maker 270]

I've seen lots of topics on Breaking curves and Joining curves and I am still having trouble.

 

I have an elongated rounded corner rectangle.  I'm trying to turn it into an elongated C.  I did an Expand Stroke.  Then I selected a node on the outside curve, hit Break Curve.  Then selected a node on the inside curve and hit Break Curve.  I can now move a node so that they look to be separate, no path between the nodes.  But the fill still continues between the broken nodes.

 

 

 

Then I try to do a join and they will not join.  I used the snap to get one node from the outside curve to align right over the node from the inside curve, select them both by holding shift and drawing a box around the two nodes, hit join curves.  And sure enough they are still separate.

 

I suspect the join just isn't going to work seeing as the fill continues along that they aren't truly broken.  I would guess that I couldn't have fill if I had two truly open curves.

 

Has anyone any ideas?  Has anyone tried breaking a shape following an Expand Stroke?

[MEB 7,561]

Hi Gear maker,

Regarding the fill, select your object go to the Pen tool, check Use Fill (on the context toolbar), then remove the check again. It should make your fill disappear. 

 

Regarding the nodes, after breaking them (resulting in two objects), select each one of the objects individually and press Close Curve button in the context bar (Node Tool).

 

 

In Affinity Designer you can have fills for open paths.

[Gear maker 270]

Fill for open paths, wow.  I don't see how the software could figure out where it would go.  It must remember where it was from.

 

I'll try what you suggest.  Because the two objects are from an Expand Stroke they are both in the same layer and when one is selected the other is automatically selected.  Or, do you mean select all nodes in both curves?  I didn't try selecting all nodes, just the two that overlap.

 

Thanks for the help MEB.

[Gear maker 270]

MEB, when I press Close Curve I get my O back instead of a C.  I even turned the end nodes until they almost touched and they still jumped the long distance to where they were when I broke the curve.  I tried selecting the curves and I tried selecting all nodes in both curves.  No difference, still O's.

 

I then tried to snap the end nodes from both curves together.  Pressed Close Curve and it still completed the O just very misshapen. The inside curve tried to heal and the outside curve tried to heal.

[J.L. Forrest 1]

It's 2019, and I'm having this problem now.

[Aammppaa 652]

@J.L. Forrest Can you be a bit more specific?

Perhaps a screenshot or provide the file along with a description of what you are trying to achieve.

Then I'm sure we can help