Simbad82

I strongly agree with all the above functionality requests.
I checked the details of the most recent Designer update and it seems none have these requests have been added?
Outside of dedicated pattern cutting software, Adobe Illustrator is the most widely used software by pattern cutters in the fashion industry to create patterns. My main reason for buying Designer was for pattern cutting, then I discovered it was really lacking in the features used for pattern cutting that Illustrator has! If Designer is trying hard to compete against Illustrator these features would get even more converts.

+1. I've been waiting 3 years for this. I keep using Illustrator because it can let me easily measure paths. Anyone who prints their designs will find this functionality useful regardless of the industry. Surely the software needs to make these calculations in the background anyway, it's just that visualising it to the user has not been a priority.

I am also a garment pattern maker hoping to use AD for accurately drafting up patterns. Have tried Wild Ginger which is a **** program and  did a promo version of TukaCAD which seems to have a very steep learning curve and it is 200 dollars a month which is financially crippling to an artist getting started. I have used AD so far for some logo design but was really hoping to get some heavier use out of it. I know Affinity would attract SO MANY at-home pattern makers out there if you had this feature, as it is very easy to use and the pen tool makes such beautiful curves!

Keying in the desired value(s) in the already visible non-modal Transform panel means making a trip across the screen to wherever you keep that dialog open.  That trip represents an extra step.  Dismiss the dialog (press enter just like Illustrator), is another step.  Then make another trip back across the screen back to your object is another step. That's 5 steps in Designer, and 4 in Illustrator.  Plus two of Designer's steps are time consuming movements across the UI.  It's much faster to do it all right there on the spot.  It's not really a big deal for me personally because lots of things in every program require trips all over the UI to enter values, but where we can avoid those trips, we will save a little time.  In this case, Illustrator is doing it faster and also doing it with less steps.
I also do not believe that this is some kind of happy accident since Illustrator works this way with other dialogs including things like the character or text dialogs.  With a single key command, you can not only open a text palette which may currently may not even be visible, but simultaneously placing the cursor in the box, and highlighting the current font name, so you can simply type the name of the font you're looking for.  That's not likely a mere accident.  Coreldraw does similar things.  With key command you can pop up tiny dialog boxes right on top of your object to enter sizes, or change text characteristics, etc.  None of that is likely to have been done by accident.  But if it was, I'm not sure why it matters.
That's incorrect.  Rounded rectangles were indeed live effects in CS6 and the whole live effects system was very mature by CS6.  And because Adobe does tend to revisit and improve existing features, Illustrator currently has the best rounded corner implementation of any popular vector software, by far.  Any corner can be rounded at any time.  Even if you just take the pen tool and draw a path with 3 points.  If the one in the middle is a corner, you can grab it and round it, chamfer, fillet, or straight, directly on that point.  And there's a setting that determines how the rounded corner behaves when you scale the object.  It's thorough.

Agree. Every vector drawing program should provide path length (and area, for that matter) for a selected path. Illustrator's was for much of its history hidden away in an undocumented 'Easter egg' programmer's window, the shortcut for which became known to users who in turn demanded its being added to the normal interface. So it ended up rather awkwardly in the catch-all Document Info panel.
JET

Actually, the Move dialog opens when you tap Enter because you have the Move Tool selected. If you had one of the other transform tools selected, its corresponding dialog would open.
When you re-invoke one of Illustrator's transform tool dialogs, it opens with the previously used values still there. it's something I and countless other longtime AI users leverage constantly.
It's arguable whether this is really a deliberately intended feature, or more a "happy accident" inherent to the modal dialogs. After all, as soon as you use the same dialog with a different value, the previous one is lost. And if you enter a transform value, perform it, and then Undo, the value you just entered is lost. Would a seriously intended 'value storage' feature for often-needed values be implemented in such a way as to only work for the last-used value and not survive an Undo?
Regardless, being able to store and recall a repeatedly needed transform value is quite useful and Affinity, as yet, doesn't provide for it. And more's the pity because Affinity does provide something closely related that Illustrator doesn't: The value fields of its (non modal) Transform Panel can interpret math expressions far beyond the simple addition or (not even and) multiplication that Illustrator's can.
Affinity's help document lists 80-plus sizing, relational, document, typographic, and math variables and sample expressions supported by the program's value fields. This seriously begs for a feature by which we could store and recall our own project-specific values and calculations.
What I'd love to see added to Affinity's Transform Panel value fields is something FileMaker Pro users know as User Defined Value Lists. I've actually built a working mockup of the idea built in FileMaker, from which the screehshots are taken:
Imagine Affinity's Transform Panel value fields being given unobtrusive popup icons:

The popups list expressions which, when selected, are applied to the current value:

In each of the popups, the bottom selection is always Edit…:

Selecting Edit… invokes the dialog in which the user adds, removes, or edits the expressions listed in the popup. Ideally, the dialog would provide two columns: one to contain the actual expression as to be applied to the value field; the other would be a name by which the user could refer to the expression:

Document-specific Stored Expressions would be applicable to all kinds of illustration and design tasks. They would also:
Serve to showcase Affinity's already existing, but as-yet under-appreciated competitive advantage of supporting a wide variety of expressions in its value fields. Be a gentle segway toward the potential of data-driven graphics for illustrators and designers without their having to dive into full-blown scripting. JET

That was a very interesting video.

Hey got a request to speed up pattern making with these functionalities seen in Adobe Illustrator
 
Video is long, but here are the functionalities that would speed up workflow.
1) 3:52 When a line is selected you can press "Return" and the Move menu Pops Up with fields already highlighted so you can tab through and enter your desired measurement. What I am doing now: clicking on the fields in the Transform field is very inefficient. I believe CAD programs also have this functionality
2) 5:13 Quick Dimensioning with new shapes. When a new shape is made, you can quickly enter dimension of the new shape with a pop up screen. Much better than clicking the Transform box.
3) 9:32 Offset Path (something I already mentioned in different thread), but this pop up offset path is significantly faster than the Affinity workaround.
4) 17:41 Scissor Tool (Cutting Lines of a Closed Shape) - Right nowI have been selecting the node breaking the curve and then deleting the node. The scissor tool in adobe does not require doing all this.
4) 18:08 Measuring Path of Curved Line (Document Info)
I know there are workarounds, but they are just too slow and inefficient. Thanks

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Hi there!
I'm brand new to Affinity and purchased Photo and Designer over Black Friday.
Originally trained as a photographer and have always used Photoshop. When I lost my job I lost my access to Adobe CC and couldn't afford my own personal CC subscription, so haven't done any personal work for a long while.
Fast forward to this year and I have started a new career as a pattern cutter, so will be looking into using Designer to create sewing patterns. 
 

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