[Rhino features]

I would love to see you guys having a look at Rhino. This Program has a bunch of awesome features witch would fit in affinity designer just perfectly. 

 
For example there are features witch allow the user to array objects along a curve, in a circle or in a rectangle. 

other handy features are 'connect' witch connects two individual lines by expanding them till they meet up. Fillet, a feature with connects two curves in a circle. 

they also approach moving a object in a different way, by setting a reference point to move from. This allows the user to move a object in one position by referring two a distance on another object. 

I don't say you should copy all of the features. I just think some would be really helpful and definitely worth a look.

sincerely Marius 

[break down curve layer]

In Rhino you get the sections, Floor plans etc. generated out of the 3D model. You don't have much control how the lines are generated from the model.

I get what you are saying. I recognised that Affinity Designer names these layers with more than one curve "curves" and the ones wirh line or parh "curve". Its quite annoying to find a eloquent solution. But thank you all.

[break down curve layer]

Literally three seconds in Inkscape: Break Apart & Ungroup. (new svg attached)

 

Now you're left with simple line segments, disjointed as they may be.... which is what you wanted I think.

But, if you want to fill anything, you're back into the frying pan ^_^ . (although, that was going to be a problem anyway, I guess)

 

(btw: Why is the the Rhino exporter unwelding every single point?? Does it do that on a simple/single box or circle? How would you ever get a working fill? I believe I've seen a fairly robust svg export plugin that even "tries" to keep some sort of element/layer hierarchy in the export. I think it uses order of creation.)

 

thank you for this Tip with Inkscape! 

 

i dont think you could export architecture plans so you get a working fill. its just not how these plans work.. you do get the hierarchy of lines with the export, but sometimes you want to change that later on.. 

 

 

No, the divide tool will only work with closed compound paths, not with individual lines. Basically Affinity only allows you to perform boolean operations between closed paths (no matter if you are adding, subtracting or performing any other boolean operation). If a line is not closed, it will close it automatically before peforming the boolean operation. So in this case there's no way to break the "curve" to get its individual lines inside Designer. Issue logged to be looked at.

Do You think that this feature (Break Apart & Ungroup) could be implemented into future Affinity Designer versions?

 

[break down curve layer]

if you open the file i attached, select the Rhino-Layer and divide it, the result needs corrections.. but in a big file with many lines.. this would take a lot of time. 

[break down curve layer]

i got all that. The thing is that Rhino, the software that exported the drawing has put several open curves into one curve-layer 
so you can't break down the Drawing in the Layers Panel.  
So what I actually want to achieve is to kind of detach alle the open curves an see them as individuals curves in the Layers Panel
that way i would be able to group them and change the style of individual curves.
I can make a copy of the drawing, delete all lines except one.. repeating this process with all the lines .. and i would end-up with the result i want to get. but that would take hours and hours..
I hope you get what i want so say..

 

 

Curves problem.pdf

[break down curve layer]

I dont know if i understood that correctly, is this a problem with AD or is the divide tool just not supposed to work for this purpose ?
And if so, is there or will there be be a way to to this? thanks :)

[break down curve layer]

thank you!

The elements of this file are made with Rhino. But if you draw a single line with AD and you divide it.. you get the same results  :( 
 

[break down curve layer]

i think i figured where this Problem breaks down to .. 
if you draw a single Line, and you divide it you end up with a closed curve. like a doubled line.
is that normal?

[break down curve layer]

 All the lines are closed curves now , which causes problems quite often...
 

curves problem.afdesign

[break down curve layer]

i got drawings to work with that contain curve layers with more than one curve stored on that specific layer. because this is not how affinity designer works, i would like to have every single line on another layer, so i can group them and change thickness and style. i tried divide. but most of the time it all gets messed up.. is there a way around? 
thank you :)