Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get some assistance regarding a project I'm working on.

It's something for my mother, she wants to build a bird fountain and asked me to cut out some acrylics in bird shapes, but kind of stained glass style. The picture she provided isn't quite fit to be cut that way so I've traced the shapes and am now trying to modify the vectors to separate the bird into parts.

My problem is that when I'm trying to get some nodes joined together to make a single shape, the node doesn't snap to the other and instead tries to align with some other distant objects or other nodes.

When nodes DO snap together, there's a small black square on the bottom right of the mouse cursor to confirm they'll merge, but it isn't there in those cases AND it tries to make me create a new line instead of letting go of my mouse. I can't change the angle of the attached lines after, as whenever I click the node, it tries to make me add more lines instead.

I've looked online, but failed to find anything but basic tutorials explaining the basics of the tools, nobody even explains the black square of merging nodes :(

  
First picture - What I get after trying to merge the nodes.  
Second picture - What I should get when trying to merge the nodes, before I left click and they merge.

Looking for assistance using xTool Studio