Craig Deeley Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 This feels like it might be quite a bit of a dumb question. When drawing a shape/fill freehand - with the pencil tool - is there a key or key combo that can be held while drawing, that will close the path? I am thinking of something like Illustrators pencil tool where holding the Option key (Mac) will close the path being drawn linking first and last node. I haven’t dug deeply thru the forums yet. I did look in the Affinity help:https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/CurvesShapes/about_linesAndShapes.html?title=About Lines and Shapes I can’t seem to find what I am hoping exists. Any guidance is much appreciated. SuperVicento 1 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souacz Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I don't think there is an option to create a shortcut to close the curve but I use "divide" button in toolbar when I use pencil tool to do it. R C-R, Alfred and ashf 3 Quote Dell Precision T7910, 2x Xeon E5-2630v3, 128 GB RAM DDR4, Quadro K6000, Dell UP2716D, Huion Inspiroy Q11K V2 Pen Tablet, WIN 10 PRO Dell Precision T3640, Xeon W1290, 128 GB RAM DDR4, Quadro RTX 5000, Eizo CG319X, Huion Inspiroy Q11K V2 Pen Tablet, WIN 10 PRO FWS -----Graphic software: Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher - Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat - Zoner Photo Studio - Topaz Gigapixel Ai, Denoise Ai, Sharpen Ai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 @souacz Nice workaround. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Deeley Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Divide works. Yes! Thanks souacz for pointing that out. That's one click. The Close Path, Action with the Node Tool also works (two clicks) I guess if holding a key to close a path (no clicks) while actually drawing doesn't exist - I will ask for it as a feature request. Seems like a productivity/speed factor like zero clicks should be in there. Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperVicento Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 this feature would be super helpful , can it be a request for the developers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 It seems that ”Add" button works also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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