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Hello, @Aammppaa Thanks for the example. Yes, I provided just a very simple example, that can be resolved in other ways. The main Issue here is when we are doing more complex drawings. Let's put here an easy and straightforward example: Imagine you are designing symmetrical elements on the page... Or drawing a symmetrical face or a entire character... And you just want to mirror sides and join nodes. It will not be possible without many hurdles. That’s what many people have been complaining since affinity designer launched 5 years ago. Many of my colleagues even mock on affinity designer for that (I don’t agree of course).

I know what you are talking about. I've just uploaded a video showing a basic drawing that people frequently do in illustrator and can't do in Affinity Designer without workarounds. Even ignoring that it is easier and quicker to draw this example in adobe Illustrator, I can't figure out why it does not work on Affinity Designer. Affinity Designer VS Illustrator - Joining Nodes https://youtu.be/KzXG2tpqhnc Ps: I have Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo both on Mac and iPad. I believe in the future of the software. I just can't understand why nobody cared to listen all this time. Edit: As of this post, YouTube is still processing video resolutions higher than 360p . I think it will be available in a few minutes

Well, not that responsive... 5 years waiting for that. Many people pointed after this odd design choice since version 1.0 was released. But developers were not convinced, and it seems they still aren't. That's unfortunate for many...

I personally think that a lot of people bought Affinity Designer during the last 5 years, really wanting to replace Adobe Illustrator, but most people do not use it, simply because it lacks basic drawing features. 5 Years ago I thought it was a great and promising piece of software, and I still think it is, but I can't see why developers can't seat with experienced graphic designers and illustrators and see why they can't fully migrate from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Designer: A big part of the answer is in the vector drawing basics. Something certainly easier to work on than many of the fancy features we got since version 1.

Well, here I am, almost 5 years later, lauching Affinity Designer to have a look in it's evolution. I have used Illustrator in a lot of projects during my 20 year career, and I find it very odd the way Affinity team decided to go without basic vector drawing tools like this. I'm overwhelmed that this nice piece of software still can't do something so basic: Joining two nodes. At first, I thought it was an early software issue, or lack of features. But now I can see this is a software design choice, that comes from a specific vector drawing style, which is very plastered by the way. Maybe this is why any of my colleagues which have more than 10 years of experience in vector drawing likes affinity designer. In the end, all that I can say is: Don't get me wrong, because you showed that you are a very talented team of developers, who made a very cool software, but you are either blind to it, or there's someone a bit arrogant to listen to designers that grew with illustrator/corel flexibility in vector/shape drawing.

Well, I'm discussing the exact same drawing situation here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/11291-how-to-combine-objects-or-connect-separated-lines-on-ad/. This is more a workaround than a real world way to draw. This slows down object creation a lot. The solution I could see on the other topic is more of a workaround than a real world way to draw. This slows down object creation a lot. Bro. It's my personal opinion, but together with the actual "raw snapping options" this should be addressed ASAP. Graphic designers or people who do a bit more technical illustrations are significantly tied when drawing in AD right now.

Well, I'm very worried now :( , because the other forum member had the same feeling as me when faced with the same basic drawing situation. <_< This thing I'm trying to do is too basic, standard and simple and now I'm wondering why can't be done in a straighforward way, but only in a "quick fix" way. Why not allow the pen tool to connect one object point to another? Maybe when AD was in development, illustrators who helped with the vector drawing concepts had a very particular way of drawing or designing. Maybe they were more into free hand illustration than into graphic design. <_< I still can't believe in it. :( The solution I could see on the other topic is more of a workaround than a real world way to draw. This slows down object creation a lot. Bro. It's my personal opinion, but together with the actual "raw snapping options" this should be addressed ASAP. Graphic designers or people who do a bit more technical illustrations are significantly tied when drawing in AD right now.

Thanks for the tip, Allan. Something is still not going in the way I expect. Please see this video where I want to connect the two left nodes: https://youtu.be/1niBr07WAlc

Hi. This is a question that is so basic that I'm almost ashamed to ask! In Affinity Designer, how can I connect two separated lines or two distinct objects? In AI, you can do it in different ways, like using the "join" command or by connecting the end point of an object to the end point of one another. This video shows what I want to do: https://youtu.be/ACI04PgeFoY Thanks

+1 To all 3 requests. I believe that only "Another thing that does not concern the guides: show and/or move the center / center of rotation of shapes" was considered.

I hope to see this new feature ASAP. A must have feature in any 2d or 3d design software.