Aristocrates

I appreciate OP for bringing this suggestion. I think for me, the first and foremost feature that needs to be implemented is a dimension tool. This is the subject of another thread and I won't talk about it further here. However, I think there are other features that would really help: Being able to type the dimensions of lines, rectangles and circles as they are being created, so that they can be created to scale, rather than only being able to set their dimensions accurately after creation. An offset tool. This would be useful for all graphic design, not just drafting. A trim tool. Ditto. An annotation tool i.e. an arrow with a text box at the end of it, that could be styled in various different ways. I'm sure there are others.

I'm having this issue too. In the attached image, the arrow on the left is what it's meant to look like, but if within a constraint group, the stroke ends are cut off. I basically want an arrow that I can change length but without the head size changing. I feel like this is a very basic use case for constraint groups, so very surprised that it can't be used for this!

I'm afraid this isn't working for me in 2.5.3 - choosing fonts -> recent crashes. I do have some variable fonts installed, but I'm not sure which they are and don't know how to deactivate!

I'm going to join the call too. Please add this feature. There are lots of people who seem to respond to this request with 'well, why are you using a drawing program to do CAD, just use a CAD program', so let me explain my position in bullet point form: I'm an architectural designer, and therefore need to draw up and present architectural plans. I use Affinity products to produce presentation drawings and documents for my work. I use a specialist CAD software to draw up architectural plans and drawings. These drawings change over time, as the design develops. I have to import CAD drawings from my CAD program into Affinity, and then use affinity to add things like colour rendering and annotations. It would be great if, rather than having to re-import my CAD drawings every time I need to add something simple like a dimension, I could just do this within Affinity. I'm generally really pleased with the progress that was made on this in Affinity Designer 2 - adding the ability to scale the units, so that shapes can be made to drawing scale rather than paper scale, and the ability to import DWG files. But Affinity could go much further, and be much more useful to companies like ours. There is a huge gap in the market for simple-to-use 2D CAD software that could help architects to quickly produce details and sketches, without having to use a complex and clunky CAD package. Affinity is in a great position to fill that gap, if it chose to do so. I hope it does. In the meantime, can we just have one or two little features that make us want to use Affinity more?

Great, that works! It would still be good for there to be a more intuitive copy and paste pages tool, but glad there's at least some way of achieving it.

We're now on version 2, and there still doesn't seem to be a way to paste pages from one document to another (unless I'm missing something).

Tried separating the Affinity Design file so that it has only one artboard per file. The behaviour does not carry over to this scenario, so presumably the error is due to a conflict between which artboard Publisher thinks it is looking at from the Designer file. 2023-01-14 11-22-34.mp4

When I try to switch and .afdesign document layers on and off from within Publisher, I'm ending up with some very odd behaviour. I can't even quite identify where the problem lies. Please see attached video which demonstrates the problem. I have several artboards within the afdesign document, each with their own layers which I want to turn on and off within publisher, depending on what it is I'm trying to show. I'm wondering whether there is some sort of conflict because there are several artboards, so I'm next going to try separating the artboards into their own afdesign files, and see whether this solves the issue. However, this is clearly a bug, since this is definitely not the expected behaviour. 2023-01-14 11-08-28.mp4

I'm really pleased that this feature has been introduced in Affinity Designer 2. I have yet to try it out with a live project, but just importing a DWG file seemed to work as expected, and I could set the drawing scale and both measure and draw using my scale units, rather than on page units. Well done Affinity.

I should think there are quite a lot of people who like me have all three desktop products installed on their computers. When there's an update, all of these have to be updated separately. Is there a possibility of an update package which updates all three at once? I frequently decide not to update because they are too frequent and take too much admin when I'm trying to get something done, so any way this can be sped up would be great.

OK. That worked. But I don't really want to keep hardware acceleration permanently disabled. But thanks.

Just to say that I had the same issue with it crashing whilst trying to apply an unsharpen mask in split screen in Windows 10. Not at 100% though. Not sure what scale it was. It seems that it was when I pushed up the radius slider it crashed. When I kept the radius slider low, it was ok. Not sure why that would be! Attached is image I was working on.

If it's available in Publisher, can you say where it is? In neither Designer nor Publisher have I been able to change the background colour of a text box. I did manage to create a text box with a background colour, but only by drawing the shape first, and then converting it to a textbox by clicking on it with the text frame tool. Any help gratefully received.

This sounds like the type of thing that would work and be helpful. And yes, it perhaps is more of a Designer feature. I've not really used Designer all the much, but perhaps I need to have a bit of an explore and see what it can do.

Have just watched the Publisher launch video and am so impressed with the look of StudioLink. Can't wait to start using it! Just one thing: I'm an architect, and therefore one of the things I used Affinity for is creating presentation versions of technical/scale drawings (see the attached planning drawing, scanned in and then coloured in Affinity Photo). However, it's difficult to maintain scale, since everything is done by the pixel or print scale dimensions. What I would love to be able to do is set a particular image up as, say, a 1:50 scale drawing, and then be able to type in dimensions in mm (i.e. if I was drawing a wall that I wanted 300mm thick, I would type 300, and it would appear on the drawing as a 6mm thick line). I don't expect Affinity to become a CAD program - I know this is not a tool that most of the user base will want, but I do think that if this feature was available, it would probably double the amount that I use Affinity products, and I'd be recommending it to all my architect friends! Again, love your work. Keep it up!