: Joining shapes in Affinity Designer I am teaching myself the very basics of design using Affinity Designer - and I haven't been able to figure out how to create a single shape from multiple

@XinRu324

I think what you are looking for is the compound. E.g. I was trying to create an object out of 2 shapes where the inner shape forms a hole. So I used the complement compound (The square with the circle and the intersection is missing).

For other stuff you might need the other operations for forming compounds.

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@Kimberly620

Just to clarify a bit, I think you mean this: Say you had a line with 3 nodes, a,b, and c, with a and c being the endpoint of the nodes. You wish to attach another another line with two nodes d and e. You wish to connect the nodes b and e.

As of right now, I can't seem to find functionality of the program where it attaches two unrelated lines that AREN'T endpoints of each line.

I think the Pen module Affinity designed assumes you are always wanting to produce an endpoint to endpoint shape. But unfortunately, when creating lambda shapes, asterisks, x's, f's, $'s, etc. you're going to run into some issues. I would love to see the ability of the pen to create complex shapes that are much less dependent on endpoint snapping.

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@Lee3735518

You can indeed join two separate nodes from unrelated vector lines.

Do this by :


Select both lines using the Move Tool.
Using the Node Tool select both end nodes you want to join (hold down Shift to select them both).
Choose 'Join Curves' from the Action section of the Node context toolbar.

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@Kaufman565

With the node tool (hit A) shift-select both curves you want to join together. Then, in the context toolbar at the top there are a bunch of buttons labelled "Action" - they look like this:


the fourth button along from the left is "Join Curves" (you'll see that when you hover over it) and clicking on that will join the two separate lines together. Hope that's what you're after...

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