How to make 2 different paths become one path?

[Paul009]

Hi,

let's say you create 2 paths with the pencil tool, if you release the click, it will create a new path. How is it then possible to make the two paths as if they were only one? And fill the area with a color. I don't want to group them, I would like to make one point from the first path join another point on the other path.

 

Here is an image of what I have got :

 

 

Thanks :)

[A_B_C]

Hi Paul009,

 

that depends … but a standard method might be this one:

• Activate both paths using the Node Tool (hold Shift and click the paths)
• Choose Snap to Selected Curves in the context toolbar
• Drag and snap the endpoint of the first path onto the desired endpoint of the second one
• Select both points using the Node Tool marquee
• Choose Join Curves from the context toolbar
• Repeat for the other endpoints
• Finally add a fill from the colour panel

Have a look at this post too:

 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4274-join-nodes/?p=18300

 

Hope that helps, Alex  :)

Paths.mov

[Paul009]

Thanks. It is great to add the video  :)

But I don't have the same icons/settings as you have. I don't have the same snap, the only snap I have is the "magnet", I can join two points, they look like they are joined but they belong to separate curves. I try to click on "add" in the context menu, but the second curve completely changes into a straight line, as if it removes all the points and join the first point from the first curve to the last point.

 

You can see here the straight line :

 

[A_B_C]

Select View > Show Context Toolbar to see the additional options …  :)

 

EDIT Oh sorry, I have seen you are using the french localisation. See my second screen shot … hope that helps. Just to be clear. You need to use the Node Tool to perform the actions I described. And I was not talking about the context menu, but about the context toolbar ("barre d’outils contextuelle") …  

 

Cheers, Alex  :)