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mazarin

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  1. 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).

  2. On 12/19/2019 at 2:46 PM, ashf said:

    I know I can do it with Pen tool.
    This is a feature request that other vector graphics software have.
    Thank you for the opinion anyway.

    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

     

     

  3. On 7/6/2019 at 8:08 AM, JET_Affinity said:

    Ashf,

    In a situation like your screenshot example (in which you have a single open path selected), click the Close Curve button on the Node Tool's Context Toolbar.

    If you're talking about joining two open paths at end nodes other than the nearest, then yes, the Join Nodes command should join between selected end nodes (if any).

    That seems a pretty obvious overlooked need. I wouldn't be surprised to see it fixed soon. The Devs seem pretty responsive to such things.

    JET

    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...

     

  4. On 8/23/2019 at 8:40 AM, Igull said:

    LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year :/

    What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems :/

    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.

  5. On 11/2/2019 at 4:57 PM, Tinkerman said:

    Yes I know.. it;s 2019 now.. but I have just downloaded AD and the first thing i wanted to do is join two nodes.. AND IT CAN NOT BE DONE.. according to this post and all of its answers.

    Not in 2015 and STILL NOT IN 2019...

    I can not believe that this super basic functionality has never been implemented. To me this is the kind of issues that might convince me NOT to buy this software that is looking very promising...  I do hope that this issue has been resolved by now and that somebody can tell me how to do it... because ..  I may have 20 years of experience in AI and Coreldraw and Inkscape... but I only have 2 minutes of experience using AD.

    Please help!!

    Thanks!

    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.

     

     

  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Hi Mazarin,

     

    Don;t ever feel ashamed to ask, it's what the form is here for. If you select the NODE tool then click and select the nodes you want to join, (hold down shift to select more than one then in the context tool bar next to actions click join curves.

     

     

     

    Allan

     

    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

  9. 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

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