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No, they are separate. But the issue remains that the object is rotated, by the Rotation, and can not be un-rotated in any way other than manually, one object at a time. The new Move Data Entry is really just another interface for the existing Power Duplicate. It can be more convenient at times, and allows for precise numerical entry. But it has all the shortcomings of Power Duplicate, such at the one illustrated in this thread, and that values are relative not absolute. Move Data Entry.mp4

Yes... but it will not achieve what the OP is asking, as Angle and Rotation don't do what (I think) you think they do. Angle and Distance work together to perform a Translation of the object. They are just a different expression of the Horizontal and Vertical offsets. Rotation rotates the shape about the Transform center, but there is no way to lock the orientation of the object and rotate just its position.

The center point of the triangle is being snapped to the vertices of the regular polygon, which by definition are equidistant from the center of the polygon. Overlaying an octagon onto your original image shows that the centers all align. (I didn't do it very accurately, but hopefully it proves the point). What am I misunderstanding?

Agree with the above. There was much user input about Select Same with great examples of comprehensive checkbox filter lists, suggested UIs, even fond reminiscence about 30 year old programs that got it right. And then we got a rather limited text menu. And sadly (as with a number of other half baked implementations) nothing has been changed since.

Brushes (and other assets) in v2 can now be installed once and shared across all 3 applications.

That's really cute! I like the texture work.

Your work is always so impressive to me, but something about this one is even more remarkable! Perhaps it is the accuracy of the numbers wrapped around all those surfaces, or the grain of the leather, or the soft satin sheen of the brushed metal. Absolutely beautiful.

Perhaps including the operator would be necessary... +1cm Original square is 4cm, so each duplicate gains 1cm. -1.5mm Each duplicate reduces by 1.5mm. I think the aim is to allow absolute differences in addition to the relative scaling that Affinity currently uses.

Nice. This is crying out to add a spiral to the record, with the new Spiral Tool!

I wondered whether anything close could be achieved with existing tools / functionality. A couple of related observations... 1. The Move tool can resize and move (translate) Artboards, but can't rotate them, which is an odd design choice especially since... 2. The Point Transform tool can rotate Artboards (as well as resize, and translate). However the usefulness of either of these existing tools is seriously limited since the handles / nodes required to rotate an artboard will almost always be off screen when the user wants to 'rotate the canvas'. This in turn relates to user comment over the years that there must be a better way to interact with objects / bounding boxes that doesn't rely on such small target area. For example making the entire edge into the resize target, rather than just the corners and midpoints.

A very similar thread from earlier in the year... It does seem ridiculous that the Pencil Tool (and Vector Brush Tool) do not have the same snapping ability of the Pen / Node Tools, nor other niceties such as auto Merging Curves as we draw multiple strokes. You might find a workflow using the Shape Builder and Vector Fill Tools (both new in v2) similar to those used by GaryP in this thread... You are almost doing the inverse of this! So can build up several rows of scales, then use the Shape Builder to clip off the unwanted overlaps, and the Vector Fill to put the gradient in each resulting scale.

I must confess that I don't get the Knife Tool at all! There always seems to be a better option in my work. If it followed the usual snapping rules, then perhaps I'd have a use for it. And maybe it is suited to other styles such as more organic shapes. Does anyone have a good video that shows the power of the Knife over other tools such as Shape Builder, Pen Tool, Boolean operations, etc?

Hmmm... I just drew an open curve and the area tool measured the perimeter just fine. So then I thought you might mean a series of separate curves / lines, but the area tool can measure that too. Either you need to preselect all the curves first, and then switch to the Area Tool. Or you need to hold Ctrl+Click to select a new object, or Ctrl+Shift+Click to add to the selection. But perhaps I miss understood your issue... can you post an example screenshot or Affinity file? @Affinity: The status bar does not show the keypress modifiers required to correctly use the Area Tool to select new objects, or add to the selection. The help page for the Area Tool is poor. It has no description of how to actually use the tool, only its intended purpose. The pertinent information is all on a page called Measurement, which does not feel like the right location for such needed information.

The area tool measures perimeters. https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_area.html

The new Move / Duplicate dialogue does not activate the Duplicate Checkbox when using Previous Settings. 1. Draw a circle, and hit Enter to bring up the Move / Duplicate dialogue. 2. Enter values for Horizontal, Vertical, Angle, Rotation, Scale. 3. Enable Duplicate, and add 4 copies. 4. Now repeat for a new shape (say a square) and enable Previous Settings. Expected: The exact same operation will occur. Actual: Duplicate is not ticked, although all other attributes, including the number of Duplicates are correctly recalled.

Yep, all these little things are frustrating. Another one... Switch to a different swatch, and the first entry is (usually though not always) highlighted even though the selected object does not use that colour for fill or stroke.

Agreed. I would expect... Alt+F4 to close the application, and Ctrl+F4 to close the active document. @_Th in case you didn't realise, you can save panel layouts via Window > Studio > Add Preset

For the record, the same thing happens with the Swatches panel. A small movement while clicking highlights the swatch colour as if it is selected, but the inkwell still shows the previous colour. I agree that this is frustrating!

I'd suggest you search the forum (either with the in built search, or even better via google). You'll see that this has been discussed a great deal. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=measurement tool permanent&search_and_or=and https://www.google.com/search?q=measurement+tool+permanent+site%3Aforum.affinity.serif.com

This has been discussed at length on the forum in the past. A quick search will show up many threads dating back years. Here is one example from 2018. Affinity say it is 'by design' that open curves (which would include the spiral) do not have an inside and an outside, so the stroke alignment options make no sense, and can not be implemented. Many users (myself included) say that the terminology (inside/outside, left/right, etc) is unimportant - we just want to be able to switch which side of the curve that the stroke appears (for reasons such as you demonstrate!) Indeed it would be really nice to be able to manually offset the stroke from the curve to any distance, just as we can do with baseline adjustment for text... which kind of proves that the maths is already there, and the terminology isn't an actual issue, since we all manage baseline shift without confusion.

@Lisan Al Gaib I downloaded your file, and have to agree with you... I can't get your shape(s) to Add. No error message, or apparent timeout, just does nothing. I had a bit of a fiddle, and can't see anything obviously wrong with the geometry, so I think one of the Affinity devs will need to take a look. Sorry couldn't be of more help, but wanted to let you know that I see the same issue.

Not sure I fully understand your situation, but can't you align your stroke to the inside of your shape (via the Strokes panel) so that the dimension remains the same? If I've not properly understood, could you provide an example file/image?

Congratulations. To me the shorter turn around seems to have been a success... A couple of new features, and a long list of bug and stability fixes.

Hi @kilicskills, welcome to the forum. A quick search for "dimension tool" will show you a number of threads discussing the need to improve the current measure tool. Rather than start your own thread it is usually better to add your voice to an existing discussing.

Here is an interesting approach that gives the benefits of Compounds (a non-destructive workflow) and allows for rounding of the corners. If you pick apart the attached file you should see how it works. Compound with Corner Tool.mp4 Also: Can anyone can tell me why my embedded screencapture videos appear so large, and how to resize them? Compound with Corner Tool.afdesign