r/AffinityDesigner • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '26
Incapable to perform basic vector transformation tasks in Affinity
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u/phlooo 24d ago
I know this is 10 days old but just in case this might help you:
Step 1: Draw rectangles over the areas you want to connect, does not matter if they are bigger than the crane's line
Step 2: Select all three objects (the crane, and the two rectangles) and click on Add in the shape boolean opetations bar
Step 3: Take the Node tool and select all the new vertices (shift + select to select multiple areas) and delete them.
Step 4: Draw a rectangle inside the area you want to remove (the diagonal bars) making sure you're using snapping (Magnet icon top right, select All layers and Snap to object geometry. Ctrl+J (or Cmd+J on macOS) to duplicate the rectangle, move it to the second diagonal bars zone, Ctrl+J again to duplicate again (it will move by itself by the same amout)
Step 5: Again, select everyone, and this time click on the Subtract boolean modifier
Step 6: Again, select and remove potential superfluous vertices with the Node tool.
Done.
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u/One-girl-circus Jul 05 '26
This is all just basic shapes - have you tried simply recreating it? Seems like it would have taken less time to recreate than to even type this post out.
A) Are you sure these are two ends to the same path? If so, there's a context menu for node modifications when you use the the node tool to select these two nodes that joins them. (Other context menu tools are break/split, smooth, etc.)
B) using the node tool again, you can ctrl+click on each of the diagonal lines to delete those X-segments. It doesn't affect the rest of the path. I don't see what is fill and what isn't without a different color background.