Josh Neufeld

Perfect - thanks! Seems odd that a raster image would not be pasted in as a pixel layer by default.

Might DXF export be a feature possible to include? Holding my breath. 

"Select Same" implemented in the Affinity Designer 1.9.0 update!
(thank you Serif)

Fantastic! Even the first simple version will be a gamechanger. Thanks for the update! 

Fantastic! Even the first simple version will be a gamechanger. Thanks for the update! 

"Five years of intensive refinement since launch have been dedicated to our unwavering vision of a powerful, super-smooth app which improves your workflow and allows your creativity to shine."
"The engine behind Affinity Designer is built to handle huge documents so you can be confident in adding all those tiny details without any compromise to performance."
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ 
Every day I wish I could use Affinity Designer for its intended purpose - my design workflow cannot happen without select same functionality. I can add tiny details but there are always too many to select one by one.
I would like to see redundant requests (and likes) continue until this thread is no longer needed.

I think the point was that it would be difficult to work with such a complex file using Affinity Designer because select same functionality is missing.

"Five years of intensive refinement since launch have been dedicated to our unwavering vision of a powerful, super-smooth app which improves your workflow and allows your creativity to shine."
"The engine behind Affinity Designer is built to handle huge documents so you can be confident in adding all those tiny details without any compromise to performance."
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ 
Every day I wish I could use Affinity Designer for its intended purpose - my design workflow cannot happen without select same functionality. I can add tiny details but there are always too many to select one by one.
I would like to see redundant requests (and likes) continue until this thread is no longer needed.

Fantastic! Even the first simple version will be a gamechanger. Thanks for the update! 

The first version will be very simple but functional - along the lines of Illustrator, as mentioned by MikeW. It will not be a Find + Replace, that will come later. It will be, as stated, a 'Select Same' with a number of variants and easily assignable to keyboard shortcuts for productivity's sake...

The message was from about half an hour ago saying it is one of the next things on the list. 

That's just a single feature request, still unrealized, and there are many others also not realized.  As I said, Serif has their own plans and it doesn't necessarily line up with what users are asking for.  Serif has not "messed up" just because they're doing what is profitable for their company.  I suspect that the majority of people don't care about the higher profiles 5 year old feature requests of people trying to switch from Illustrator and that could be why Serif does not need to prioritize any of those feature requests.

Maybe they require 10 years so, the glass is half full.

I don't believe they've messed up.  I believe they're executing their own plan which doesn't necessarily match up with the wishes of some of it's userbase.  Meanwhile, tons of people declare their love for Affinity Designer and hatred of the program that actually has the features that people are begging for.

Because people are getting the point that constructive ideas are just wasting time.  Ranting is what's left when you ask for something for 5 years, and get nowhere.  Sooner or later people will understand that the feature is not going to happen.
 
The advantage of Illustrator's implementation is speed.  Plain and simple.  Just one tap and it finds exactly what you're looking for.  You can bind it into an action and work even faster.  Coreldraw has a similar implementation as Freehand.  Longwinded, tabbed pages of questions.  After using that just once, you never want to use it again.  That's why people created macros in Coreldraw to immitate how Illustrator works as closely as possible.  Although the macros are good, it's probably just not really possible to truly reach the level of speed and simplicity that you find with Illustrator.
And I have yet to see Illustrator's simple and fast implementation in any 2D drawing program.  Both have merits.  I personally wouldn't be able to work with how Freehand does it, or Coreldraw.

I think the point was that it would be difficult to work with such a complex file using Affinity Designer because select same functionality is missing.

I think the point was that it would be difficult to work with such a complex file using Affinity Designer because select same functionality is missing.

"Five years of intensive refinement since launch have been dedicated to our unwavering vision of a powerful, super-smooth app which improves your workflow and allows your creativity to shine."
"The engine behind Affinity Designer is built to handle huge documents so you can be confident in adding all those tiny details without any compromise to performance."
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ 
Every day I wish I could use Affinity Designer for its intended purpose - my design workflow cannot happen without select same functionality. I can add tiny details but there are always too many to select one by one.
I would like to see redundant requests (and likes) continue until this thread is no longer needed.

False advertising refers to "false, misleading, or unproven information to advertise products to consumers". I get what you mean, but if I, as a potential customer, look at that image on the website, I could be easily misled into thinking that that's an imported cad drawing that I can manipulate in AD. Or at least, that's what I thought. I also find the sentence "Optimised for documents of any complexity" quite misleading (because of the lack of the "select similar"), but again, maybe it's just me.

OK thanks.
Guessing some here might just be salivating at the thought of that feature set appearing in AD's menu system.

Well this is actually false advertising! Imagine having to work on that CAD drawing without "select similar" 😂 (even though I'm not sure how you would import it into AD...)

"Five years of intensive refinement since launch have been dedicated to our unwavering vision of a powerful, super-smooth app which improves your workflow and allows your creativity to shine."
"The engine behind Affinity Designer is built to handle huge documents so you can be confident in adding all those tiny details without any compromise to performance."
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ 
Every day I wish I could use Affinity Designer for its intended purpose - my design workflow cannot happen without select same functionality. I can add tiny details but there are always too many to select one by one.
I would like to see redundant requests (and likes) continue until this thread is no longer needed.

I must have select similar. Now. This minute. End of today will be too late.
I can tell you, this program is ABSOLUTELY F**king USELESS without the menu that allows me to select by similar (stroke width, colour, whatever).
How can it be even marketed and how can you have the audacity to accept money for this? It CANNOT BE USED like this. Do you hear?

lol, holy F**king shit, most action this thread has seen in years. how nuts would it be if they actually released this feature? I mean...I've so long given up on Affinity, purely because of this feature, but man am I glad I kept the emails coming for this. Cheers, y'all. Stay safe.