joel,
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So, right now I'm kind of winging these kind of things.

But to any gurus? How do u approach joining two circles like this?

adamsdesk,
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@joel Wouldn't you use the shape builder? I would have to play with it honestly... which I'm trying not to at the moment so I can finish what I started 😏.

iam,
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joel,
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@iam I am not that noob lol

Not to say I am beyond his tutorials, his channel is amazing and I do watch it often, it's just that I don't think this is specifically covered in any of his tutorials

iam,
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@joel LOL. I'm not saying you're a noob, but there are good tutorials on how to do many things. Maybe something helps you. Although yes, it may not have anything you need. You could still ask him. 🤔

joel,
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@iam that's not a bad idea!! Yeah don't worry I know u didn't mean it xD

gadgetoid,
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@joel turn on tangent snap in the advanced snap tools, the rest is a cakewalk

gadgetoid,
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@joel (that’s like the arrow to the right of the backwards C 64 logo on the right)

gadgetoid,
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@joel then draw the two circles, convert to paths, then just a regular rectangle, convert that to a path and tangent snap its four corners onto the circles and you get - why yes I am incredibly ADHD how did you guess?

gadgetoid,
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@joel then of course finish with a Union, clone and horizontal flip and scream that it doesn’t line up with the right-hand grip 🤣

joel,
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@gadgetoid I will definitely scream LOL

gadgetoid,
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@joel ha, this left me with extra control points after the union- right where the line tangent should have intersected the circle. Can clean those up by ZOOOMMIIING RIIIGHHHT IN and deleting the nodes from the straight line segment.

joel,
@joel@fosstodon.org avatar

@gadgetoid I need more zooooom it's not enough at all

gadgetoid,
@gadgetoid@fosstodon.org avatar

@joel haha you totally nerd sniped me into this 😭 I used to spend hours in Fireworks vectoring up fantasy game controllers and PDAs 😆

A fun nostgalgic diversion from writing a review of some keycaps. Thanks!

ohyran,
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@joel I think turning the two circles to paths instead of objects, and then using union on all three objects

ohyran,
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@joel you can use just ctrl and + as a shortcut with all three chosen, you don't even have to do the circles in to paths.

joel,
@joel@fosstodon.org avatar

@ohyran yes that's what I do. But I still need to do the alignment by hand and I wonder if there's a better way for that

torsten, (edited )
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@joel @ohyran
i would just eyeball it
but rounded line ends or corners - you can choose in the stroke menu - might help you to make it look more polished

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