[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 3)]

Going to have to sit this version out. Can't get it to open after setting "open anyway" in system preferences. Downloaded again today, still nothing.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 2)]

I'm pretty sure the default settings for a new object is for constraints to be off...?

 

If you scale, rotate, move a parent object - any child objects will deform according the changes applied to the parent, unless you tick the "Lock children" option on the context tool bar.

 

Hmm, right. I remembered that differently. Now that I've redone the document in the regular version, it's the same.

Could we get a mode that leaves the child document in place and treats the parent more like a mask, but with all the benefits of an object?

 

With the constraints all I can make it do is move around when I touch the handles to scale the parent.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 2)]

Please make the constraints feature disabled by default. Not everybody works in interface design. For normal work it breaks too much and is a general hinderance. It's in the way pretty much all the time. A button in the constraints panel [enable constraints] would be great. That way we could use it on a per object basis.

 

Example: Nesting of multiple objects within a vector shape, then resizing the vector object.

Expected behaviour: The masking of the objects is modified

New behaviour: It distorts the objects.

 

I tried all options in the constraints panel. All of them result in modification of the nested documents and objects.