Adding to objects - Joining lines

[johnyoungphotos]

OK I came from Drawplus which just worked for me but that another subject

I am trying to add a hand to a figure I have already drawn in Affinity. I did originally draw the hand separate but gave up trying to join it to the drawing as nothing seemed to work but now I am drawing the hand again from scratch onto the arm and I can start at a node by selecting it and using the pen tool but as soon as I start the end point node disappears and I cannot join it there. I have tried the join node tool etc but it does nothing what am I doing wrong. As I said in Drawplus this used to just work and was brilliant to use

[Alfred]

36 minutes ago, johnyoungphotos said:

I am trying to add a hand to a figure I have already drawn in Affinity. I did originally draw the hand separate but gave up trying to join it to the drawing as nothing seemed to work ...

The ‘Add’ command in Affinity Designer works somewhat like the one in DrawPlus except that it will close the curves if they are not already closed (instead of simply refusing to add the selected objects).

36 minutes ago, johnyoungphotos said:

... but now I am drawing the hand again from scratch onto the arm and I can start at a node by selecting it and using the pen tool but as soon as I start the end point node disappears and I cannot join it there.

When you select a curve with the Move Tool or the Node Tool, you should find that none of the nodes are selected. Marquee-select one of the end nodes before switching to the Pen Tool.

[johnyoungphotos]

Sorry I don't know what you mean ?

I have just about given up trying to connect anything with the nodes and now just use the add shape options to connect and then alter after.... its just way more fiddly than it needs to be.

[johnyoungphotos]

Anyone else got any advice or help for this....   So annoying simple thing that should work

I assume its just me not doing something  right.  I select a line and make sure node is selected then draw a new line to add to the current one and it just puts a new line. It wont connect it to the previous line/node 

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, johnyoungphotos said:

Anyone else got any advice or help for this....   So annoying simple thing that should work

I assume its just me not doing something  right.  I select a line and make sure node is selected then draw a new line to add to the current one and it just puts a new line. It wont connect it to the previous line/node 

I too am baffled by how the curve/pen tool will not add to, or rather continue on from, a selected node or curve.

[Move Along People]

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[johnyoungphotos]

On 11/3/2019 at 4:43 PM, haakoo said:

 

That is very useful thank you - Never noticed that Add New Curve.... option at the top there.

 How do you do this with the pencil as I see no button at the top for that ?

[Move Along People]

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[johnyoungphotos]

25 minutes ago, haakoo said:

This doesn't work for the penciltool though

 

 

 

Sorry for ignorance but I still cannot see how to do this with the pencil tool I can now do it with pen tool and I can join the node by dragging but how to I add to a line already created with the pencil tool ?

This is not as intuitive as the old DrawPlus software