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Not the craziest idea, though if you move the line or box off of the canvas, while still existing as a curve, it effectively visually disappears which is a bit annoying. Also you have to worry about its layer order so you don't accidentally grab it instead of the edge you were aiming for. Thanks for the idea! 🙏

Very busy document. Unfortunately, the design I've been given is fairly fluid and can't be [sensibly] fit to a grid. It would be easier to grab and move guides from off to the side.

I can *not* get Guide lines to show up outside of the document workspace/canvas no matter how many ways I try. This is the case with all of my files, even new ones. Is there a setting I accidentally changed? See attached image for how the horizontal Guide pulled from the ruler is only as wide as the work-area & the vertical guides don't extend to the top. Yes I have "View > Show Guides" checked Yes I have "View > View Mode > Clip To Canvas" unchecked. No, I am not using any Artboards. I am running Affinity Designer 2.3.0 on Mac Sonoma 14.2.1 (Somewhat related because I can't see: I can change the color of Guides, but Is it possible to make the Guide lines thicker than 1px on the screen?)

[Apple M1 Pro, MacOS Ventura 13.4, Affinity Designer v2.1.0] Right now in Designer I have no ability to select/sample colors from other program/windows outside of AD. No matter how I mouse-drag either color picker (the color-swatch-panel eyedropper or the "other" color picker from the tools), whether or not I hold the alt-key, as soon as I move out of the Affinity-Designer window (even on a single screen), no matter what other windows I'm hovering over, all the color picker registers is my desktop-background (which happens to be a solid color). I have the Source set to Global in the top-bar. Have tried changing the sampling Radius, but no change. I can just use another app to do this for the moment, but thought you should be aware...

Perspective Grid Please. Thanks.

I am having the same question - "How can I make a 1980's grid-horizon?" The issue with the somewhat-automated solutions presented above is that the horizontal lines aren't getting closer together as they approach the horizon. Has there been any updates to in the last 5 years? I've spent way too long trying to figure out do this. Do I really need to go to Affinity Photo, rasterize and use its tools?

I'm very very frustrated by the difficulty I'm having just drawing out a simple circle with an X inscribed through the center. Yaknow, like the close button symbol (or the x-men logo), meshing together an X and an O? I can make the ellipse, but when I try to use the pen tool to draw two lines, I am unable to use *add* to get the shapes to combine. If I do use add, one or both of the X lines disappear. Also, the lines will tend to stick out a bit and extend beyond the circle's stroke. The only thing I can do that sorta works is to select all 3 layers and use the Layer>Geometry>Merge command in order to combine them, except, as soon as I do that, the path alignments change from what I had them set as (once merged strokes are on the exterior instead of interior, and my sizing is all off which makes the result useless for me). This is such a simple thing, can someone please help me and explain how to do it? Also, what is the difference between the normal "Add+" function and "Merge"? Thanks

I have found no fewer than 5 existing threads in this forum to request the ability to setup a KEYBOARD SHORTCUT for the purpose of RENAMING LAYERS. Is renaming layers via keyboard-shortcut still not possible? These threads go back to at least March2017. I'm using v1.8.3 and I do not see a "rename" anything in the shortcuts for the different menus. The only way I know how to rename a layer is to double-click the name on the layers panel (which itself has a bug where it will accept a couple of characters and then deselect like you had hit enter - but that's neither here nor there.) However, if you are creating very geometric illustrations, there should be no need to touch the mouse.