ReinhardK

Hi
Adding my vote here too. Simplify/reduce nodes on a curve is one of my top three requests!
Please, Affinity.

+1
Another one of the "basic" features I'm greatly missing after converting from Illustrator. Smooth curves might work in some cases, but you can't even isolate its use to a few points, which could actually make it a lot more useful.

Please, please add this to V2.

Just purchased the whole suite and really frustrated at the lack of this basic feature.  +1 again please! Its an everyday tool for Illustrator users - yes I should have checked, but thought its such a basic thing that it would be there?

The photoshop plugin is in CCX form but you can unzip it, it does not work with Affinity though unfortunately.

Yes! 😀 I second this. It's already possible with Photoshop.

Schau die Screenshots vom 21. April 2020 an, dort ist alles zu sehen.
Check out the screenshots from April 21, 2020, it's all there.

How is this still a problem?!

Note, there was a proposal to fix this as a simple feature as well
 

Mir ist klar, dass der Bug nicht mit ein paar Programmzeilen behoben werden kann. Ich gehe auch davon aus, dass der Entwurf leider missglückt ist. Doch  viele der seit Jahren schon verwendbaren Pinsel an einem geschlossenen Pfad kann man überhaupt nicht nutzen, weil das Öffnen des Pfads kein ansehnliches Ergebnis für diese Pinsel bringt. Ich habe früher schon einen Screenshot gezeigt.
Außerdem ist das "Skalieren mit dem Objekt" nicht möglich, da jedes einzelne Objekt manuell nachbearbeitet werden muss. Und das bei einem Vektor-Grafikprogramm. Eine Schande.
I realise that the bug cannot be fixed with a few lines of programming. I also assume that the design has unfortunately failed. But many of the brushes that have been usable for years on a closed curve cannot be used at all, because opening the curve does not produce a respectable result for these brushes. I have shown a screenshot earlier.
In addition, "scaling with the object" is not possible because each individual object has to be reworked manually. And that with a vector graphics programme. A shame.
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That is not how a voting system is used in the software industry.  It is a feedback mechanism.  It is not a contractual obligation.  No company treats it as such.  Users are never given a guarantee that something voted highly will be completed.  Companies which utilize voting system are still 100% free to work on whatever they choose.
However, there is better communication both ways.

It would really be great if there was a ranking/voting system for issues.  Many software companies have a mechanism by which their users can vote on issues.  It becomes much more clear which issues are of the greatest impact to users.  It is extremely frustrating that there are issues open for years and we have no idea if anybody even looks at them anymore.  People stop complaining because they give up which results in management/development not getting the feedback they need to prioritize.

Das bleibt doch ein frommer Wunsch, denn der Fehler ist seit Ewigkeiten bekannt und würde Serif den beseitigen wollen, hätten Sie den seit Jahren beseitigen können. Dieser Fehler ist Serif einfach egal.
That remains a pious wish, because the bug has been known for ages and if Serif wanted to fix it, they could have fixed it years ago. Serif simply does not care about this bug.

Man kann es nicht glauben: Auch in der Version 2 wurde dieser Bug nicht behoben.
It's hard to believe: this bug has not been fixed in version 2 either.

bumped, please someone make this possible

Now that we have a open source AI generator.  Affinity could leverage this to provide integration directly into the product.
Potentially could provide for unique capabilities when combined such as AI brushes.  Imagine being able to paint trees, flowers as a brush AI generated etc.

It is not the same issue at all.  A roadmap is a high level plan, it doesn't address the issue of community input to priority.
Voting is not about high level roadmaps, it is more granular.  It is ranking the bugs and small features.  The issue you have now is the community has low confidence that it is worth our time to even give feedback.
The problem with customer expectations is not too much communication, but too little communication with long iterations.  Most of the software industry has moved on to Agile development more than a decade ago to address these specific problems.  The problem of no communication is far worse than the problem of responding timely to changing priorities and updates on progress.

Wenn der Reifen eines Autos geplatzt ist sollte der Tausch des Reifens die höchste Priorität haben. Danach kann man daran denken, einen stärkeren Motor einzubauen.
Wie viele neue Versionen von Designer gibt es seit 2019? Alle haben weitere Features und Funktionen, doch ein so offensichtlicher Bug ist noch immer vorhanden.
Das ist für mich unverständlich.
When the tire of a car is blown out, the replacement of the tire should be the highest priority. After that you can think about installing a more powerful engine.
How many new versions of Designer are there since 2019? All of them have more features and functions, but such an obvious bug is still there.
This is incomprehensible to me.
 

Hi @Jen1234,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thank you for your feedback. I've updated/bumped the report to bring it up to management/development attention. It's up to them to decide what issues and when should be fixed first. Thanks for understanding.

This seems like such a basic feature, it's one of the first things I tried when I bought designer for my iPad and couldn't believe it's been a bug for years. @MEB can you please fix this basic function soon? 

Wow, very disheartening to see how long this has been a known issue and nothing has changed...

It is annoying. The "overlap"feature kind of fixes this but the result is not ideal. It's just "okay," and, now that I have worked with it a bit more, doesn't always work to close the gap. I have been pretty disappointed with Affinity so far. It could be such a powerful application suite, but if I am looking for alternatives.

Hey MEB,
 
thanks for the warm welcome  I'm longer here than some other people, but i'm not so active here... And thanks for your quick reply, not a problem at all. So no apologies needed, but any way i will accept it. I know there always may be some thing going under the radar. I'm myself in software development.
 
If you got any info if it will be considered, please reply here  That would be awesome to know if it will be implemented or not.
 
Thanks for the help any way.
 
Cheers,
Torsten

DWG export for when???????????????
 

I mean, to be fair DXF is a very bloated file format but to implement a basic import feature you can pretty much ignore most of the tags.

Is there any update on DXF/DWG importing and exporting?