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Apologies for that, I seldom read further than the end of any post, in my defence, in most other forums I occasionally frequent, it invariably contains endless trivia about what toys the poster owns 🙂
OK, I've just watched the video by NPM (thanks for that BTW, cleared up a lot of my pre-conceptions of AD 🙂 )and see where my (?) issues arise.
In AD, it seems that not all polygons are the same - a rectangle or a star (or whatever regular poly) are separate entities with their own super set of attributes particular to their design and NOT simple polygons with nodes - as in AI ! For instance, a rectangle created with the rectangle tool in AI is just a four sided poly and any of the nodes can be adjusted with the node tool - unlike AD where you have to "convert to curves" before being able to edit any of the nodes (of a "super poly" )- fine if you want the rectangle to stay as a rectangle, but painful if not.
On the select all thing, I don't know what happened there, but the node tool was definitely changing to the move tool when within the bounding rectangle of the selected objects. In light of the above video and also the way AD handles 'super' polygons, I assumed that it may have been something to do with that - selecting all regular polys and created polys. I can't reproduce it this morning, it may be some low level bug - or may have been finger trouble on my part (couldn't possibly be that of course 🙂 ).
I'll re-iterate the inferencing thing - I've just run through all my CAD applications and a few of my vector graphic applications and they ALL use inferencing at all levels, not just the bounding box of the object. I DO understand that you can do what I wish, but only with some effort to do something that should just be so ! I am of an age that has used graphic and cad apps for 40+ years, so have at least some experience with GUIs (and their foibles 🙂 )
Rather than one-click to move and snap in AD, it requires...
1 - Change to the node tool
2 - Select the object with that tool
3 - If it's a "super" poly, convert to curves
4 - Select all (this makes NO sense to me, Select All is a global command surely 🙂 ) to select all nodes of the selected object
5 - Click and drag the object either by the selected node (the node is highlighted, that in my book would adjust that node surely ??) and snap to the required node of the other object.
For me, it's probably a deal-breaker, I can see where others that don't require this level of precision will find it perfectly fine for them - I really don't want to go through all the above steps simply to snap to a node - forty-odd years of muscle memory probably hasn't helped either in this case 🙂 
Thanks to all for pointing out the "error of my ways" 🙂 , it seems that AI and I will have to be friends for some while yet /rant
Cheers
Neil
 
 

LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year 
What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems 

LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year 
What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems 

LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year 
What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems 

LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year 
What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems 

LOL, I come back to the Designer forum every few months to see where this wonderful tool is that is to arrive 'one day soon' and here we are in late 2019 - 5 years later - and the 'contour tool' (AKA Offset Tool) is nowhere to be seen. Buying Designer for both platforms has literally been a waste of money for me for this very reason - I should have put the funds to good use and put them to a subscription to Illustrator for yet another year 
What's even more annoying is that there is no mention of it in any future release either (AFAICS ?) - real shame, I had really wanted to ditch the adobe connection forever, but never to be it seems 

This just needs to be a menu option like Illustrator – something like Object => Offset Path => <enter value>. So much faster than this method.

LOL, except for snapping while rotating  
All of the above offer truly accurate rotation, but not the precision of snapping to previously drawn parts that I require.
At least I gained a few nice things from this post - every day is a  earning day some say - thanks all that provided the info, it's appreciated 
Talking of cars, I see they are changing to driving on the right hand side of the road here in Scotland - probably something to do with brexit, it's to be done over the whole of next weekend. On Saturday after 1:00pm, all commercial and public transport will move over to the right, then on Sunday, all private cars and manually propelled vehicles will follow suit. Road signs will be removed and changed over the following weekend - if required. 
Cheers
Neil

I don’t believe we can at the moment. What we need is a dialog with checkboxes for each open document, allowing us to clear the ones against those that we don’t want to save.
 
BTW, it’s interesting to see your screenshot from the Mac version of Affinity Photo. The pedant in me is always mildly irritated by the wording in the Windows versions of the Affinity apps, where the corresponding dialogs run the two sentences together so they’re only separated by a comma.

LOL, there you go then Alfred, I'm forever doomed to using 'Layer - Convert to Curves'- I'll be castigated for not reading the manual and I've never read the licence agreement either (I'm kidding, OF COURSE I've read the licence agreement, I signed it didn't I :-)
I'll just put a sticky label on my monitor that says 'Type/Create Outlines - cmd+return' that should be OK for the software police - it doesn't expressly state that you can't do anything with sticky labels - or perhaps I missed that paragraph too.
As you're resident in Scotland too, I expect you'll be around to check that I haven't done anything that would incriminate me :-)
I do notice that Designer doesn't have applescript support - shame really, I could have maybe done something really naughty there :-)
Anyway, I'm off to add to my licences by purchasing a Windoze copy too - wonder if they'll give me a refund on my (really) old Illustrator licences ???

LOL, there you go then Alfred, I'm forever doomed to using 'Layer - Convert to Curves'- I'll be castigated for not reading the manual and I've never read the licence agreement either (I'm kidding, OF COURSE I've read the licence agreement, I signed it didn't I :-)
I'll just put a sticky label on my monitor that says 'Type/Create Outlines - cmd+return' that should be OK for the software police - it doesn't expressly state that you can't do anything with sticky labels - or perhaps I missed that paragraph too.
As you're resident in Scotland too, I expect you'll be around to check that I haven't done anything that would incriminate me :-)
I do notice that Designer doesn't have applescript support - shame really, I could have maybe done something really naughty there :-)
Anyway, I'm off to add to my licences by purchasing a Windoze copy too - wonder if they'll give me a refund on my (really) old Illustrator licences ???

Again, my apologies for these delayed replies - I did mention this as probably my last showstopper - and again many thanks for pointing out yet another menuitem 'easter egg' :-)
This is exactly what was required - and again, 'layer/convert to curves' makes no logical sense to me whatsoever when what we are doing is converting a truetype/PS outline to a path (or curve if you must)  LOL
Patently it makes full sense to the folks who create the menuitems 'though :-)
Either way, it works and short of that decent offset tool - that's my list ticked off :-)
 
Not sure what the reference is to the Infinity Kat 'though :-)
 
Cheers
 
Neil

AAMMPPAA - Sincere apologies for the delayed reply - vacation got in the way, yep, the node snapping definitely works, thanks a lot for that, it's solved a major problem here - however, perhaps just a wee bit unintuitive - more of an 'easter egg' than an implied function LOL :-)) There's no way I would have figured that one out :-) It does work 100% of the time though (unlike Illustrator :-)
Having to use the node tool - especially using command/ctrl A  to select all the nodes while using it doesn't jive with the function of moving objects around - it's the wrong tool - that really does need to be fixed?
 
Oval - Yes, 'offset path' is what was intended - apologies - in my case, essentially a small offset to create a toolpath. Illustrator has perhaps one of the best offset algorithms I've seen - far better than many of the ultra expensive CAD apps out there.
 
Thanks for the great help - I really still can't believe how good affinity is - for me, just a few minor tweaks and it's there - 'text to outlines' maybe is the only showstopper :-)
 
Cheers
 
Neil
 
 

Plus one on  the offset path - an ABSOLUTE must for me and my best friend the laser