Affinity Designer Help - Snapping shapes

[AndyB1972]

Hello,

 

I am practising with Affinity designer and i am attempting to create a microphone vector. I am trying to curve the edge of a rectangle so it joins the curve of a circle seamlessly, but i am struggling (see image attached). What snapping presets and tools should i be using please? 

 

Thank you

 

AndyB

[Alfred]

Start by making the rectangle taller so that it sticks out at both the top and the bottom of the circle. Select both objects, click on the 'Divide' icon in the Geometry section of the toolbar, and then delete the surplus pieces of the rectangle.

[AndyB1972]

Perfect, thank you for your quick response!

 

Incidentally, is there any way, or any tool to make a sphere? either to make the lines in the microphone 'bulge' if you know what i mean....

[A_B_C]

There isn’t a dedicated tool. But you can create a circle, duplicate it in place, hold down Command and grab a middle handle of the duplicate’s bounding box. This will allow you to resize your circle (ellipse) symmetrically around a center axis … 

 

[Alfred]

40 minutes ago, AndyB1972 said:

Perfect, thank you for your quick response!

 

You're very welcome, Andy. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[R C-R]

13 hours ago, Alfred said:

Start by making the rectangle taller so that it sticks out at both the top and the bottom of the circle. Select both objects, click on the 'Divide' icon in the Geometry section of the toolbar, and then delete the surplus pieces of the rectangle.

Alternately, you can use layer clipping to nest the rectangle in the circle, something like in this clipped layer.afdesign file:

On the plus side, there are only 2 layers & everything remains easily editable. On the minus side, if the circle has a stroke then the rectangle won't cover it.

[toltec]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

On the minus side, if the circle has a stroke then the rectangle won't cover it.

 

Cheat ?

 

 

[AndyB1972]

Cool. These are really helpful! great forum!