

The ‘ Unite‘ tool in illustrator works the same, and can be found in the ‘ Pathfinder‘ toolbar in the form of the button to the left. This will combine everything selected into one single vector shape, which takes it’s colour from the shape that was on the bottom. Simply position the shapes you wish to combine, which can be intersecting or separate and click the Add button (image to the right). Addįirst of all I wanted to show the simplest and most commonly used function, the ‘Add’ tool as it is known in Affinity Designer (the ‘ Unite‘ tool in Adobe Illustrator). In Illustrator, the equivalent tools can be found in the “ Pathfinder” toolbar, which can be found in the ‘Window’ dropdown menu. I will also show the corresponding Adobe Illustrator buttons through the course of the post. These functions are Add, Subtract, Intersect, Divide and Combine and they can be found in the top toolbar in Affinity in form of these five buttons. In this blog post we will be showing you the 5 different tools found in Affinity Designer, which can also be applied to Adobe Illustrator – the tool names are different but the outcome is pretty much the same. It’s essentially the process of using multiple vector shapes to Add, Subtract or work in conjunction with one another to produce new, non-standard shapes. Would be good if someone could try replicating this in Illustrator CC 23.0.Shape building is a highly effective and speedy way to create a range of custom shapes for anything from simple icons to full blown digital illustrations.

I can view results in outline mode and the pats are not aligned along any curved edges.

Have looked at view as GPU vs view as CPU and problem persists. Straight lines seem to line up OK but on curves it's just that tiny but out that it leaves a load of messy edges when you zoom in.

Never had this problem before, it's like something has changed and it's not 100% accurate since latest CC update. I should add that doing intersects like this is part of my workflow for how I illustrate and I use this loads, it's not that I'm trying it for the first time or something. If I expand the shape it still has the same problem when intersecting. If I draw a circle and go to Object>Shape the options are Convert to Shape (grey out) and Expand Shape.
