ashf Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 Would be nice if I cloud connect certain nodes I selected without snapping them each other. A problem with "Join Curve" action of Node tool is that it connects nearest combination of nodes automatically, so I can not choose which combination. UPDATE: this has been improved in v1.8. now you can connect nodes you selected. NonstickRon, mazarin and Dharmic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 Can't you select two nodes and then have them joined? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 21 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Can't you select two nodes and then have them joined? would you direct me how? As I mentioned "Join Curve" action of Node tool connects nearest combination of nodes automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Well I will be darned. You are right, after a fashion, I can't even get the top two to join. I would have sworn I could do this before. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Well I will be darned. You are right, after a fashion, I can't even get the top two to join. I would have sworn I could do this before. I'm on PC so that might be a bug. At least I can connect nearest nodes with Join Curve on my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Ashf, In a situation like your screenshot example (in which you have a single open path selected), click the Close Curve button on the Node Tool's Context Toolbar. If you're talking about joining two open paths at end nodes other than the nearest, then yes, the Join Nodes command should join between selected end nodes (if any). That seems a pretty obvious overlooked need. I wouldn't be surprised to see it fixed soon. The Devs seem pretty responsive to such things. JET Dharmic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted July 6, 2019 Author Share Posted July 6, 2019 7 hours ago, JET_Affinity said: Ashf, In a situation like your screenshot example (in which you have a single open path selected), click the Close Curve button on the Node Tool's Context Toolbar. If you're talking about joining two open paths at end nodes other than the nearest, then yes, the Join Nodes command should join between selected end nodes (if any). That seems a pretty obvious overlooked need. I wouldn't be surprised to see it fixed soon. The Devs seem pretty responsive to such things. JET Yes I'm talking about joining two open paths at end nodes other than the nearest. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Another detail worth mentioning along these lines is a keyboard modifier that would control whether or not preexisting extended handles are respected when joining. Back when Illustrator couldn't join more than two paths at once (not that long ago), I hacked out a couple of Javascripts for that: JET ashf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 AD can do this: Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharmic Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Another upvote for this. Preferably click on a node in each of two open curves, hit "join curves" and have a line between those nodes and a single curve at the end of the operation. ashf and Krustysimplex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 7/4/2019 at 7:58 PM, ashf said: would you direct me how? You need to make sure that both nodes are part of the same object (use one of the boolean ops to combine the objects if needed) then connect them using the pen tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 12 minutes ago, fde101 said: that both nodes are part of the same object When you look at my GIF from Aug 5th you´ll notice that this step isn´t necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 1 hour ago, fde101 said: You need to make sure that both nodes are part of the same object (use one of the boolean ops to combine the objects if needed) then connect them using the pen tool. Read through this thread. What I need is connecting nodes on two separate curve and that's not the nearest combination but particular combination. it's not possible with Join Curve for now. mazarin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 15 minutes ago, ashf said: Read through this thread. What I need is connecting nodes on two separate curve and that's not the nearest combination but particular combination. it's not possible with Join Curve for now. so don't use Join Curve... use the pen tool and click on each of the two nodes you are trying to join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 1 hour ago, PixelPest said: this step isn´t necessary. not when using Join Curve, but as others have pointed out, that is not the scenario that they are looking for here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 4 minutes ago, fde101 said: not when using Join Curve, but as others have pointed out, that is not the scenario that they are looking for here... I know I can do it with Pen tool. This is a feature request that other vector graphics software have. Thank you for the opinion anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazarin Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 7/6/2019 at 8:08 AM, JET_Affinity said: Ashf, In a situation like your screenshot example (in which you have a single open path selected), click the Close Curve button on the Node Tool's Context Toolbar. If you're talking about joining two open paths at end nodes other than the nearest, then yes, the Join Nodes command should join between selected end nodes (if any). That seems a pretty obvious overlooked need. I wouldn't be surprised to see it fixed soon. The Devs seem pretty responsive to such things. JET Well, not that responsive... 5 years waiting for that. Many people pointed after this odd design choice since version 1.0 was released. But developers were not convinced, and it seems they still aren't. That's unfortunate for many... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazarin Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 12/19/2019 at 2:46 PM, ashf said: I know I can do it with Pen tool. This is a feature request that other vector graphics software have. Thank you for the opinion anyway. I know what you are talking about. I've just uploaded a video showing a basic drawing that people frequently do in illustrator and can't do in Affinity Designer without workarounds. Even ignoring that it is easier and quicker to draw this example in adobe Illustrator, I can't figure out why it does not work on Affinity Designer. Affinity Designer VS Illustrator - Joining Nodes https://youtu.be/KzXG2tpqhnc Ps: I have Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo both on Mac and iPad. I believe in the future of the software. I just can't understand why nobody cared to listen all this time. Edit: As of this post, YouTube is still processing video resolutions higher than 360p . I think it will be available in a few minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 @mazarin I realize that you are merely providing one example, and agree that the node editing in Affinity needs some improvement, but sometimes it is about adopting a different workflow. Try this… Draw a square (50mm) With corner tool grab bottom right corner and drag to top right corner. Change corner type to Concave. Job done in less than 10 seconds. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazarin Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Hello, @Aammppaa Thanks for the example. Yes, I provided just a very simple example, that can be resolved in other ways. The main Issue here is when we are doing more complex drawings. Let's put here an easy and straightforward example: Imagine you are designing symmetrical elements on the page... Or drawing a symmetrical face or a entire character... And you just want to mirror sides and join nodes. It will not be possible without many hurdles. That’s what many people have been complaining since affinity designer launched 5 years ago. Many of my colleagues even mock on affinity designer for that (I don’t agree of course). Dharmic, Aammppaa and NonstickRon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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