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My feelings exactly, a reputable company cannot claim to have an 'all in one design' package with an application not even being able to carry out the most fundamental of operations, my goodness, we are only talking about drawing a simple line at a specific length. I do not intend this to come across as being rude, but I'll say it over and over again if asked - and I know 'it's old code' but Drawplus can already perform these things I need already! Yes I forgot to mention Drawplus, it does all these things smoothly!

I am able to save the file as a pdf or svg, could I trace accurately and would I be able to colour in each individual part separately?

Thanks. I understand about dragging the line end to a new position, what I would need to do is specify an exact angle to rotate the end point it could be something like 110.5 degrees. Thanks also for the feedback with what I would hope to do with affinity designer ... so maybe I could use the simple shapes method, a bit like building blocks you mean, then just copy and paste them in ?

Thanks again, please see attached: You can see that I have drawn out a simple shape here, what I'm trying to do is select only the line with the end node circled in Red, I want to change the angle to something like what is shown by the Red line - can this be done simply ? Also attached is an example of what I am currently achieving with Drawplus, very straight forward, just draw in CAD, open up in Drawplus and colour in - job done. Do you think that this would be achievable in a quick way with affinity designer ?

Thanks Lilpri, Robert22 very useful info. How do I attach an image here in this forum to further explain what I'm trying to do please?

I found it ;) One more question though. 1. If I draw out a simple shape, whether this a closed or open curve and I want to select a particular segment to change the length, how do I only select the segment I need ... at the moment all the segments in the curve get selected. Is there a way to break it up in order to only change the properties of a single segment ? Clive

QA, thanks, where's the Move tool ?

Okay, so after my first questions on this forum relating to opening up a CAD file and trying to work on that and trying to use the flood fill tool etc. etc. etc. and becoming increasingly more and more frustrated I am now trying a different approach. I have read how affinity designer is being developed and understand the aim is to have an 'all inclusive' design application, so I have decided to give this beta version a work out and try to do everything I want only in this one application - instead of what I was doing using two programs before, namely one CAD program where I would draft up my 2D work and then open either a DWG or a DXF file in Illustrator to finish up the colouring work. You could easily compare my approach of that as a colouring book style method - in other words I would have my outlines and details in simple line work and then add colour between them! So moving on ... and now working 'solely' with Affinity Designer *beta (which to be honest has already been a significant learning curve for me). 1. In Draw persona > using pen tool > polygon mode, I draw out several connected lines to form a shape. First question -how do I specify line lengths as I draw, there is a grid which helps, but is there any way to set the line lengths ? 2. Also is there a way to draw at angles and set the angle I need? I am aware that Affinity Designer is not a CAD program in the sense that I am used to (AutoCAD for example) but I only need to draw out simple and for the most part quite orthogonal stuff. Regards Clive

Thanks Jimmy Jack It's a step closer, it does work indeed if you are only dealing with one shape at a time .. but for example consider that you had a grid 100mm x100mm containing 100 smaller squares in it at 10mm x 10mm, forming a grid, then we ad a circle in the middle at 25mm radius. Now I want to fill each segment of our drawing with different colours, using your method, which by the way is potentially a step forward as a workaround, you only get a bit further before you realise that you need to isolate somehow each segment that you wish to independently colour in.

Thank you very much MEB, for your time and input to my posts here, I understand what you are saying here, for me I have only been trying out Drawplus and Affinity designer over the past few days .... however like you say 10 years of development has gone into Drawplus - I wonder how 10 years worth of Drawplus users feel about no more development with Drawplus? In addition how much longer will Drawplus function on operating systems when they are constantly being upgraded? I am honestly trying to find some middle ground here, you say carry on using Drawplus in the meantime, sure, you say Affinity designer is a new program, sure, not a replacement for Drawplus, sure I understand all these things, but what I'm thinking is you are hopefully wanting Drawplus users to migrate to testing and using Affinity designer but with a program that doesn't offer maybe for some the same tools/options and workflow?

Okay thanks MEB, I genuinely thank you and Dominik for your support here, however this whole thing is becomingly increasingly frustrating to say the least. Of course affinity is a new application being developed now for windows also and of course Serif are well within their rights to develop things as they see fit ... but goodness me, to drop development on Drawplus and focus just on Affinity for windows without matching what is capable currently on Drawplus is not good. I have added feature request to have what is already there in Drawplus to be added in affinity designer. All of the big competitors out there have an option to work with dwg/dxf file formats .... jus a thought! Kind Regards cct

Hi I would like to see a flood fill tool that works with vector entities in the same way that it does in Drawplus, this would help with mirroring work flows bewteen the two applications! Currently I can open up a dwg/dxf file in drawplus and use the flood fill tool to click on areas and fill them with colour. I would be happy if I could open up a similar file in Affinity Designer (even if I have to first export the dwg/dxf file to pdf or svg first) and then have the option to use a flood fill tool in the same way, this would then match a workflow that currently works in Drawplus! Thank you cct

Thanks, Dominik. @MEB, thanks, so far in Draw persona, I am testing with a simple 100 mm x 100mm square of 4 vector lines, drawn in cad, exported to SVG and opened up in AD. In Draw persona, working on the one layer I select the 4 lines and using the fill tool try to fill the square .. but nothing happens.

Hi Dominik Thanks, you explained things very well for me. I am working with vector lines/entities - for example what if I had a star shape drawn with lines in a cad program, exported this to pdf, opened in affinity designer ... then what would I need to do please in order to select the star shape accurately and use the flood fill tool to colour it in? What I need is a tool like the flood fill tool in Drawplus ... @Serif staff -will such a tool be implemented for Affinity Designer? cct

Hi, New user on testing Affinity on windows 10 Okay I'm testing out the flood fill tool on an imported pdf. The drawing is on one layer and it is a simple line grid 100mm x 100mm square with 10mm x 10mm squares. I change the persona to pixel draw and start using the flood fill tool but nothing is happening ... I'm guessing it has something to do with maybe changing all the lines to a different state first - but how ? All I'm trying to do at this point is to test out the flood fill tool with adding any different colours to the individual 10mm x 10mm squares! I am new to using any illustrating program at all and I've tried out Drawplus and the flood fill tool works with that, but I'm not getting why it isn't working with Affinity. I'm guessing it has something to do with vectors and pixels? If this option isn't currently available in Affinity yet: 1. Is there a work around please ? 2. Is this option going to be implemented in Affinity for windows ? Kind Regards cct