[Move By Specifying distance and Angle]

Hi, recently downloaded this software and it's quite lovely compared to AI.

One thing I do miss is the ability to transform an object using just distance and an angle.

AI had this:

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I say that I want to move an item 10 units 30 degrees (where 0 is just +Y and degrees go counter-clockwise). Based on this, AI is able to do trigonometric calculations and conclude that the equivalent translation is +5X and -8.66Y. More or less what this calculator does if you say "given a side and an angle".

There are online tools to do these calculations as well, but I just find it annoying to have to have a calculator on hand to essentially offset lines by a distance. Including this would be a great QOL improvement for my workflows.

[Transforming An Object Relative To Its Position]

6 hours ago, Pšenda said:

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/expressions.html

That doesn't look like it supports trigonometry

So let me make this clearer about what I mean WRT relative positioning and polar coordinates (I don't know if polar coordinates is the correct term)

I say that I want to move an item 10 units 30 degrees (where 0 is just +Y and degrees go counter-clockwise). Based on this, AI is able to do trigonometric calculations and conclude that the equivalent translation is +5X and -8.66Y. More or less what this calculator does if you say "given a side and an angle".

Is that a thing I can do in Affinity Designer?

[Transforming An Object Relative To Its Position]

Hello,

I've recently moved from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Designer, and this is a wonderful software so far. A question I have is about transforming - it looks like Affinity Designer only supports exactly specifying the X and Y of an object relative to the document.

Illustrator had options where you could change both the coordinates relative to its current position, both in terms of X and Y (e.g. move +10X and -10Y from where you currently are), and in a sort of "polar" system (e.g. position this 10 units away from where I currently am at a 45 degree angle).

Does this kind of relative positioning exist in Affinity Designer? I'd rather not do trigonometry every single time I have to offset a line to be parallel at a certain angle.