How do I combine shapes in Figma?

Figma has a really simple tool you can use to combine and work with individual shapes to get to more complex structures for your designs. And you don't need any plugins or third party addons either.

How do I combine shapes in Figma?

Check out this simple tutorial on how to combine shapes by using the Boolean Groups:

Basically you select the groups that intersect and decide in which way the overlapping layers should transform: you can unite, substract, intersect or exclude the layers.

Once you're done with the grouped layers you can click the flatten selection to only keep the vector points around the edges. But keep in mind that once you've flattened your design you won't be able to make adjustments to the initial individual shapes.

To go back to the way layers were before you combined them you can just select them, right click and ungroup. This will split them back into individual layers.

Conclusion

To summarize, combining shapes in Figma is really easy. All you have to do is select your shapes and use the boolean group tool to link them together.