Mattyd

Really hope you guys work on a smooth tool and shape builder tool sometime soon! 

Really hope you guys work on a smooth tool and shape builder tool sometime soon! 

Really hope you guys work on a smooth tool and shape builder tool sometime soon! 

Really glad more users are showing how important this feature is to them and I hope that affinity team adds this to the roadmap soon. 
 
Currently I work between both illustrator and designer because of this feature at times. (Doing lines in illustrator and colouring in designer) (the other reason is for using astute graphics plugins - eraser tool in particular- if affinity added a tool like that as well as this request for anchor handle snapping, I’d be sorted!)
 
Im very meticulous when I design and I love to have anchor points snapping to grid (not always, but when it’s needed). 
 
It is a feature that needs to be a toggle on/off option in the snapping menu. It’s not always required but when it is, it’s fantastic and quick for when I want to be precise.
 

Would be great if there was an option to snap the anchor handles to the grid (and guides), and also other snapping alignments - when handles collide with other lines-.. this feature would be really helpful for precision work.

Really glad more users are showing how important this feature is to them and I hope that affinity team adds this to the roadmap soon. 
 
Currently I work between both illustrator and designer because of this feature at times. (Doing lines in illustrator and colouring in designer) (the other reason is for using astute graphics plugins - eraser tool in particular- if affinity added a tool like that as well as this request for anchor handle snapping, I’d be sorted!)
 
Im very meticulous when I design and I love to have anchor points snapping to grid (not always, but when it’s needed). 
 
It is a feature that needs to be a toggle on/off option in the snapping menu. It’s not always required but when it is, it’s fantastic and quick for when I want to be precise.
 

After thinking about this, now I count myself among the people that ask for this feature and I do so believing that it will benefit both sides: users and Serif.
Best regards!

I've just gotten back from holidays and have been checking out all the commentary on this topic. I don't have Affinity Designer, as my evaluation period expired. I didn't buy a copy simply because of this one lacking feature, the snapping of handles to grid (or grid-lines/intersections). I'm not sure how you could argue against having this ability. I can understand usage cases where you might not want handles snapping to grid, but I feel this is easily dealt with by having a simple checkbox somewhere on the interface for "snap handles enabled/disabled". In almost all cases in my work I do want the precision of snapping. This is the default behaviour in CorelDraw and Illustrator, so I'm surely not alone in this opinion.
 
The key reason is that you can create specific curvatures that can be easily replicated, especially useful for type, logo or pattern design, diagrams/flowcharts and other non-freestyle drawing applications. By using measurements rather than doing things by eye you can draw the same matching curve shapes much faster, without the need to constantly zoom in to adjust "by eye" (especially important on small laptop screens). You can calculate how to create the same curvatures at different scales because you're just scaling up the relative distances. You can also draw inverse shapes that exactly match the perimeter of another shape. You can confidently create many separate drawing files (e.g. for a family of icons or diagram elements) knowing that curvature shapes will match even though you're not seeing them at the same time.
 
Surely the advantage of using a computer for drawing is the ability to create with total mathematical precision, replicate elements, define exact ratios, fit things perfectly, work faster? I understand that many people are just doing the equivalent of freehand illustration, but that's no reason not to cater to users with a more technical drawing requirements. 

I agree with both options being available.
 
Exactly how I want is sometimes dictated by the grid not a sketch.

Would be great if there was an option to snap the anchor handles to the grid (and guides), and also other snapping alignments - when handles collide with other lines-.. this feature would be really helpful for precision work.

Would be great if there was an option to snap the anchor handles to the grid (and guides), and also other snapping alignments - when handles collide with other lines-.. this feature would be really helpful for precision work.

I think the colour picker tool is a bit of a hastle when dragging out then selecting, would be much better to have a colour picker like illustrator where you could just tap a shortcut and copy the colour with ease, 
 
perhaps-
normal click for colour
 
alt + click to copy style
 
:)

I think the colour picker tool is a bit of a hastle when dragging out then selecting, would be much better to have a colour picker like illustrator where you could just tap a shortcut and copy the colour with ease, 
 
perhaps-
normal click for colour
 
alt + click to copy style
 
:)