Bobi Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Hello, I am working on tutorial found on web but I meet the problem with Add operation. I can't add 3 shapes to make a flat phone icon. After trying to use add operation my shapes vanishes and I don't understand what I am doing wrong here. I attach a afdesign file for this icon. phoneapp.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Hello Bobi, Select the three shapes, switch to the "Node" tool and delete all the nodes inside the ends that are not part of the phone shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobi Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 Thanks for the answer however from video that I was recreating this Add operation worked just fine with same amount of extra nodes in main shape of a phone. Deleting some nodes are going to distort main shape and wont be same as Adding everything with Add Operation.' #Edit From what I see I have to delete just few nodes from biggest shape and Add Operation works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Zoom in strongly before removing nodes and be careful to remove only those that are not on the main shape so that it does not distort. The image on the right of my screenshot shows the result after deleting the nodes and the "Add" operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobi Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 Even deleting one node from middle of the biggest shape makes Add Operation works fine. What is the problem here? Does this shape must be connected in some shape or form? #Edit Is this a Bug or something specific appear in my situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I don't know if this is the right explanation, but I think these two lines are the remaining parts of the two circles that were used to make the ends. Since they are isolated and discontinuous curves, they cannot be used in a Boolean operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Hey @Bobi , while all those extra nodes aren't great to have in there (btw they aren't actually lines. They're flat holes) only one is technically illegal. It's a single node all by itself.... an aberration (messing with it too much actually crashed Designer a couple of times). That's the one that needs to be deleted in order for the Boolean to work (messily, but work). Funny thing is though, if you delete any node that one disappears too and solves the problem. Another solution is to just hit the close curve button. That will make the point into another "closed" shape, although it will still look like just one point (until you pull on it a bit ) gdenby and Bobi 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 @JimmyJack, well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobi Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 Closing curve also fix my problem, thanks! It's just weird this abomination appeared out of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 J-J, Can you tell us how you came across the "lone wolf" effect? Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Had a doodle to see how you made the phone and tried an alternative method. phoneapp another method.afdesign Saved with history so you can jog back and forth in the history panel. Bobi 1 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...
R C-R Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 3 hours ago, gdenby said: J-J, Can you tell us how you came across the "lone wolf" effect? I don't know exactly what causes it but I have seen it a few times, usually in files imported from some other vector format. I also remember seeing one appear when I had clicked with the Pen Tool to set the first node of a shape & something, a notice from another app or some such, popped up on the screen & I had to click one of its buttons to dismiss it. The details are hazy but I think I may also have done something else to switch out of the Pen Tool before setting the next node. Whatever it was, it was the result of some unusual sequence of events. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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