rt-it

Any hints about progress on this?? ( its been a year now...) yay or nay, on the grand scheme of priorities, will we see this in a year?

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

I wish top add my name and voice to the above requests. I am a structural engineer in UK and I have used Draw Plus for years to convey ideas, provide technical drawings and to illustrate calculations.  I want now to be able to use  Affinity to produce my technical sketches etc so need the dimensioning and scaling routines.  It is a real disappointment that Affinity with all its power and ability cannot provide the basic functionality of dimensioning which all drawing and sketching packages should have.

Please add dimensioning and scaling to Designer.

Hi @Hywel Harris,
in AD you are not limited to pages. Alternatively you can use artboards and they can have any size and even any shape. Create a circle and with the artboard tool turn it into an artboard.
Cheers,
d.

+1 for the dimension tool.

I'm transitioning (well, looking to) from CorelDraw. The fundamental impression one gets for AD is that is it intended for illustration work. There are so many great examples of what it can do in that direction. What is missing is the attention to drawing where print/web is NOT the end result. There are so many aspects of design that are not part of the 'output to a rectangle' format too. So why do we have to have a page defined? CorelDraw is able to work seamlessly without displaying a page, meaning small architectural drawings can be drawn at real world scale. And with an efficient application why not a drawing 100m in size ? The focus on paper size needs to be removed since paper isn't always involved in the end result.

Once you grasp the concept of output to other than a rectangular print/web format then dimensions become an essential part of the workflow.

My trial period has run out and I will not be buying it unless they add dimensioning, (at least as good as Draw Plus that I continue to use).
I have been with Serif since the start and this is the first real disappointment.

Another +1 Here. This is really stopping me switching to Designer full time for work. 

Gotta have it!!! 

You just said everything I would.
Scaling, Dimentions and Macro or Scripting.
This are the features that would move my company from CorelDRAW to Affinity. Without doubt.

I also suggest the following:
 

+1 For this.
Dimentions and scale drawings.

Other people may feel differently, as there are many LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape etc. users around. It's also always a matter of personal taste and what people are used to. - However, fact is that LibreDraw offers some features Affinity Designer is missing and Dimensioning is just one of them.

LibreDraw part of LibreOffice (freeware) offers this too ...
LibreOffice Draw Dimension Lines Part 1 (Dimension Layer Tab)
LibreOffice Draw Dimension Lines Part 2 (Dimension Line Dialog Box)
LibreOffice Draw Dimension Lines Part 3 (Dimension Line Scale)

… baking them, to use the Affinity jargon.

They are almost there 😉 just ...

Just another strong encouragement for adding dimensioning tools and setting the document scale, including with feet-inches units (OK I won't get greedy). This really would open Affinity Designer up to a whole new audience. One that is a little starved for a good solution right now.
—Former Intaglio user looking for a new home

Speaking of which, the newest version of EazyDraw can import Intaglio documents – which are based on SVG.
And, EazyDraw seems to have quite excessive dimensions tools:

I've never liked the user interface though. But it would get the job done.
The trial version is only limited in how many objects you can create.
Also, currently they have an attractive crossgrade offer for Intaglio users, so perhaps I'd even buy a license.
SVG also seems to more or less work as an interchange format with Affinity. Oddly, not via clipboard though.
As for stability… well, on Catalina I made the demo version crash or hang (and thus having to force quit) about every 10 minutes within the last hour so far.

I dropped Adobe Illustrator for Affinity Designer. I miss the dimensioning tool the most.
I'm guessing not for everyone but a dimensioning tool would be very useful.
+1

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...

Blender has this feature. To have this feature for CAD/CAM, isometric top, front, side and 3D projection (really 2.5d) and leveraging brushes for shading would give the Suite blueprint scale production and Publisher a huge lift in technical publishing

This is about the only thing that still prevents me from ditching Corel Draw in favor of Affinity Designer. 
The ability to add configurable snapped dimension lines ( that auto-dimension as needed) is essential to my use case...