KishZera

Hi, I made the drawing below using many vector shapes, some filled shapes and some curves. At the base layer there are some black and white circles that on top of each other give the right black and white pattern I want. I tried to export this as SVG and use it in a CNC machine to carve this out of wood, but that machine is not carving what's black in the composition, but anything black in any layer. So I need to collapse this into a single layer shape. How do I do that? ... also, the drawing is too detailed as the drill bit is wider than what I have here as minimum line width. I can't think of a good way to do that. I'll probably have to retrace it with the pen tool set to a width that matches the drill? Thank you for your time.

@NotMyFault Thank you. This is working now!! For anyone else who has as difficult a time as I had in finding the cog wheel, it is in the Layers panel, at the top, next to the opacity setting, and just like it, it applies to the currently selected layer.

Hi, in Affinity Designer 2.5.5 I made a chart using some curved vector shapes. In my application I want the chart to be interactive, so I made a second copy of it, where each shape has its own unique uniform brightness gray color. Then when the mouse is over a pixel in the color chart I can get from the gray value in the gray chart what the object index is of the item the mouse is over. For this to work, I need to export the gray image free of any antialiasing at the edges of the curved shapes. It needs to be nearest neighbor "interpolaton". There is an old post how to do this: https://tinyurl.com/oldDesignerInstructions. However, that refers to a cog on an individual layer item that no longer exists. And nothing states blend options or similar. Or at least I can't find it. Anyone can guide me in how to do this in Designer 2.5.5 or newer? Thank you for your time

How do I make one?

I just upgraded to Designer V2. The automatic grid is great. I love that it adds levels of subdivision as I zoom in. However it gives me 5 new boxes across each coarser box. I'd love to have 4 instead, so that there are grid lines at 25%, 50% and 75% - very nice for centering and lining up. Can I configure the subdivision sections count per subdivision level? (all the non-automatic grids only have two levels of coarseness, I want to keep the automatic feature of many zoom dependent levels of coarseness)

that sounds very promising. I think I upgraded recently and am now on version 1.10.5.1342 My Layer menu looks like this (no warp):

this thread is over three years old, but I now have the same need for a vector mesh warp or perspective shear. Does such a tool exist by now?

+1 for a dimension tool

Hi, I'm making a plan on how to cut a big piece of wood to get the parts I need to make a desk. In affinity designer I can setup my page to the same size as my room and measurements to inches so that the shape sizes in designer match what I'll need to build in real life. The simplest shapes I need are rectangles and triangles. Unfortunately I can see their sizes only one at a time when they are selected - and all of that disappears on a printout. Is there some way to automatically put into the middle of a shape same text stating what it's width, height and angle are? And if not automatic then at least in a way that when I resize the shape the text updates accordingly?

I found another forum post that claimed that the latest beta has this issue fixed. I just downloaded it via the link below. It still crashes

I am having this issue now as well. Really annoying as I really need the new illustrations. So any update on when the new build will be available?

Just FYI to the developers: Select set, "Set stroke width to 0" "Expand Stroke", "Add" causes Affinity Designer to crash.

Indeed! Great! Thanks!

Hi, I have a similar issue: I made the shape below and would like to fill each area in a different color. I suppose I need to convert the curves that are lines and circles into curves that are contours of each area. Is there a good way to do that?

@Ben the new dynamic grid is great (as implemented in 1.7.3.481), but still not ideal. I'm working on an icon collection. I had setup a custom advanced grid (which is still not dynamic) with 64x64 pixel tiles for the icons that have a slim 16 pixel gutter horizontally just for visual separation and a bigger 32 pixel gutter vertically to have space for a icon name label. Within the 64x64 tiles my only option is the number of divisions. I chose 16. Symmetry and centering is a big thing in icons, so having instead the dynamic subdivision based on zoom would be much better. With maybe two parameters, 1) number of divisions per zoom level, 2) number of zoom levels visible (currently only two, up to three of four would be nice, getting progressively faint). That way I can get clear lines at the center of each icon, level two at quarters and level three at eights. And it all jumps by a factor of 0.5 when I zoom in more. Thanks!