GlennG

Thanks for the comments. I will try to work with this suggestion although it is very complex. Very impressive!

I created this cylinder to serve as a building in an isometric scene. The problem is adding windows across the front. I can't seem to work out how to do this. Using the simple cylinder attached here as an example, the windows would be in the dark gray band. The band itself was easy to create from two top ellipses but adding isometric windows to it has stumped me.

Thanks. As I mentioned, it was working fine until it wasn't. Might have been the most recent update that I installed last week. Not sure though.

If anyone from Affinity Support is around, I did a complete reset and the problem still occurs as described above

I just tried the same thing in Affinity Publisher and the same problem occurs. I tried a limited reset of Designer by pressing <Ctrl> while starting and just accepting the first three options that were checked by default. This did not help. I have to emphasize that this problem just started recently. It all worked fine until now. I am a new user but have been using both programs for over a month now and on a daily basis.

Yes. I have quit and restarted Designer as well as the PC itself.

Yes - autoscrolling is ON in both places but the problem persists. I will give an example. Create a new document and create 10 layers. The bottom layer is 1, the top layer is 10. Set your layers panel size to show about 4 layers. Now try to drag layer 1 up so that it is above the top layer, layer 10. When your mouse pointer hits the top of the layers panel it should scroll the contents of the panel until layer 10 comes into view and you can drop level 1 above it. This is the feature that stopped working. To repeat, both auto scrolling settings are ON and this does not impact the problem. Unless there is a setting I missed, something broke. The only way to make the window scroll is to drag the layer up and then turn the scroll wheel on the mouse, which is cumbersome and not the way it worked befoer

Thanks, but that is the auto-scroll I was referring to as already on. It makes sure the layers panel scrolls to any object you click to make active. That works fine. My problem occurs when you try to drag a layer up or down in the panel. It will not scroll beyond the few layers visible in the panel.

I saw this reported in the past but find no solution. I have version 1.9.1.979 running on Windows desktop. I can no longer drag layers up and down in the layers panel because the panel will not scroll. It doesn't matter how I position the mouse when I move it up or down. This worked before and I am not sure when it stopped. I even created a simple file with just 10 blank layers and tried to move layer 1 to layer 10 to scroll the panel but it would not. If I scroll the mouse wheel while dragging the layer, the panel will scroll but this is very cumbersome. I cannot find any setting related to this. Auto-scroll is on but my understanding is that this has nothing to do with the problem I am describing.

That makes perfect sense as I think about it. I suppose for Affinity to allow nodal adjustments of Groups ( and therefore embedded files) would require them to modify all of the underlying layers accordingly which sounds like a prodigious task. I'll have to simply my standalone window file to the degree possible and then copy it in multiple times. I'm not interested in using other packages or rasterizing at this time, so that will have to do it. Thank you all.

I am running Designer on Windows desktop. I am trying to draw a street scene as a learning exercise. There are buildings along a street in 2 point perspective. Each building has windows whose shape changes as they recede into the background. The windows are fairly complex and take many layers, both vector and pixel to create. I decided to create one window in its own Designer file (shown below) and them somehow import it into the main document. Each copy of the window that gets imported will have to be reshaped as shown in the sketch. When I try doing this as an embedded document I cannot reshape the windows in this way. When editing the embedded document I can change the size and I can rotate the image but I cannot use the nodal tool to adjust each corner individually. Does this mean I have to manually copy all of the many layers in the standalone window file into the street scene for every single window on the street? Seems like that is going to get quite unwieldy. Thanks for your consideration.

It appears that the only solution is the old fashioned way. I drew all the reference lines as seen in my attachment, converted all shapes to curves and now am forcing them into alignment.

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I am new to Affinity products and to digital painting. I have done all photography work up until now. I am trying to draw a waterfront scene looking down the block at a slight angle as in the sketch I have attached. The bottom of the image points to a horizon line that is up and to the right. The top of the image points down and to the right. How do I set this up with grids? I would need fairly precise control of angles since the lower angles are steeper than the opposite upper angles if that makes any sense. I would love to use the isometric grids but would be happy with any grids at all. I have not found a tutorial that covers this twin perspective problem. I do not have the Photo app so those tools will not help at this time. Thanks for any help.