LarrySunshine

https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/pages/DesignAids/grids_axonometric.html

A nice sentiment, but that isn't how the world works, in any respect, in any field, in any competitive situation, in any arena. If I was less excited about finding a competitor to Adobe, I would have been better about reading the fine print. Somewhere, it would have surely said that this is a pay-to-beta.
At least Avis tried harder. Affinity Designer can only seem to promise to get there eventually, maybe, one day, who knows, but without that pesky subscription fee. 
Great.
I'm using this platform why? I chose to dip my running shows in a bucket of mud right before the big race to save a few bucks? Really? This is the value proposition that I fell for?
Oh, but when you say you're an illustrator killer — or at the very least a legitimate competitor — most prospective customers think you're talking about Illustrator in 2019. If your competing against Illustrator 2002, well nevermind, because Affinity Designer is still too late — Distortion and Warping (among a coterie of tolls Designer can't sniff) have existed there since 2001. 
The only saving grace is now you can not use the various features on an iPad, too.. 
To demonstrate how < moderated > the development of this program is, please refer to the images below. They show what cell phones looked liked in in 2001.
In computer time, Designer was born a dinosaur that had just enough time to look up and see the asteroid. If there was a refund button, I would have already mashed it into the ground.
If anyone wants to dive deeper into this sad exercise of masochism, here's a link to Serif's plans for Affinity Designer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator
They are assuredly on the roadmap to 2030.

It has been 4 years, still no tool. But don't worry, it's on the roadmap and Affinity has got it under control! I haven't seen fanboy base cucked so hard...
Just use InkScape, it's free and it has Envelope Distort. It can also expand strokes precisely.

Stockholm Syndrome over here. Nature is weird.

So the mod locked Expand Stroke post, and posted some "ultra legit" results of CorelDRAW and Illustrator in comparison as a final word. So here's a video where I doodle in Affinity Designer, try to expand the stroke then copy the same thing to Ilustrator and expand it.
Just doing my part, exposing your lies and lack of responsibility.
 
2019-09-11_15-26-32.mp4

So the mod locked Expand Stroke post, and posted some "ultra legit" results of CorelDRAW and Illustrator in comparison as a final word. So here's a video where I doodle in Affinity Designer, try to expand the stroke then copy the same thing to Ilustrator and expand it.
Just doing my part, exposing your lies and lack of responsibility.
 
2019-09-11_15-26-32.mp4

So the mod locked Expand Stroke post, and posted some "ultra legit" results of CorelDRAW and Illustrator in comparison as a final word. So here's a video where I doodle in Affinity Designer, try to expand the stroke then copy the same thing to Ilustrator and expand it.
Just doing my part, exposing your lies and lack of responsibility.
 
2019-09-11_15-26-32.mp4

591 days ago the shoes of the CERN accelerator complex were presented as follows:
Not only repeating complaints, it was always made hope.
2015:
2016:
2017:
2018:
 

Yes but in prod where you cut stuff, foil etc there are just too many details so you can overlook easily even if you triple check. If you are holding your breath every time you launch prod worrying your software may have failed you it's just not the way to work. If you have to check on everything everytime then you may as well write your own code to operate plotters, printers etc. Keep in mind we are talking about critical bugs dev's know about for years. It's no excuse.

Not taking anything for granted is one thing and I agree, but there is a limit where you put a certain amount of trust in basic tasks software should be able to handle. If you have to triple check every step manually it will add way too much stress which is very bad.

Absolutely, but that's where the problem is. Expand stroke works sometimes as it should, but sometimes it loses nodes or messes the shape up. The worse scenario is that the result is barely noticeable with bare eye so you launch the prod and you find out you spend money on bunch of scrap. This could be forgivable if it wasn't... 5 years in development of so called professional software.

Btw this passive aggressive guy reacting to my comments with a cry smiley is adorable.

Absolutely, but that's where the problem is. Expand stroke works sometimes as it should, but sometimes it loses nodes or messes the shape up. The worse scenario is that the result is barely noticeable with bare eye so you launch the prod and you find out you spend money on bunch of scrap. This could be forgivable if it wasn't... 5 years in development of so called professional software.

Btw this passive aggressive guy reacting to my comments with a cry smiley is adorable.

Insinuations? Do you have any idea what happens when prod of a big project goes to waste because of a software bug? The answer is NO you don't. And this bug has been for 5 years from what I understand. This is not acceptable and people are outraged. Like I said before the only people who defend Affinity are amateurs or aspiring designers who have no clue what professional design process is.

Indeed and I don't think there's anything wrong about that.
Btw you can easily use forum's ignore feature and won't see my (or Jowday's or JGD's, make your pick) repetitive posts ever again. It's there exactly for that purpose.

I stand corrected, sorry for misinterpreting your words.
I believe he was just being sarcastic. Well, after 5 years of patient waiting, who wouldn't be? Politics has nothing to do with business, this is clear business and humour.
I'm not. I'm still locked in the Adobe ecosystem. I wanted to leave it, and Serif seemed to be helping. But it's sadly not...
Since I can't rely on Affinity Suite, I'm mostly avoiding it. Getting back to it after each update to find out if it's already useable for me or not.
Expand Stroke doesn't need work. It need to be completely rebuilt.
Why I keep complaining? Because I was sold a most precise vector design tool available (and Designer isn't that tool).
Until it does what it was sold as, I have complete right to complain. Or should I remain silent for next five years?
Hey, but fanboys clapping their hands how awesome the tool is, that' ok, amiright? Those don't bother you, you donesn't seem to complain about those.
But it's the very same song, mate.
 
 
 
 

Stockholm Syndrome over here. Nature is weird.

Backups of physical materials? I don't know you can back those up.

I haven't noticed a single insult here, you seem to be a bit oversensitive, don't you think?
Well, I'm a frustrated user who paid for "professional and most precise vector drawing tool" and that is clearly not true (now for years).
Please, stop with euphemisms, Expand Stroke's current state isn't unfortunate. It's catastrophic. And it's not just current state, it's been like that for years and sadly, it wasn't Serif's priority to fix this. Instead, we got arrowheads and isometric drawing. How often will people use those compared to expand stroke? It's like the second most discussed feature on the forums. And I'm really happy that the dev is currently working on it. I hope he's gonna manage to fix it along with some other frustrating bugs.
Please, begin to understand that when basic features are not working as expected (for years), blast of semi-useful features added in to market and sell the app to more people won't help the current userbase and will push unsatisfied people to voice their opinions. And they are entitled to do so. Not everyone is an uncritical fanboy. Some of us need to work, to rely on the tools we use.
Honestly - every time there's an update, I'm happy - hoping that most of the annoying bugs will be fixed. Instead, I get another bunch of regressions or new bugs.
It even seems that there are no testers in Serif.
Fyi, this is how was AD marketed to me:

Insinuations? Do you have any idea what happens when prod of a big project goes to waste because of a software bug? The answer is NO you don't. And this bug has been for 5 years from what I understand. This is not acceptable and people are outraged. Like I said before the only people who defend Affinity are amateurs or aspiring designers who have no clue what professional design process is.

And I can assure you that Boris Johnson is actively working to resolve the Brexit issues. Feel assured now? No. Until released and confirmed working properly it is a fantasy.
Lets just let reality talk.

Insinuations? Do you have any idea what happens when prod of a big project goes to waste because of a software bug? The answer is NO you don't. And this bug has been for 5 years from what I understand. This is not acceptable and people are outraged. Like I said before the only people who defend Affinity are amateurs or aspiring designers who have no clue what professional design process is.

The big question is how much longer this situation is sustainable. This is not an open source project run by volunteers or a small start up company in a garage. Rumors also has it that Serif is doing very well now. So... 

@LarrySunshine Apparently, people at Serif did not know that the function does not work well even beyond 10 millimeters. Neither the program itself nor the help warns of the inaccuracies, although this has been demanded. One can only hope that Serif does not have to deal with lawsuits.

The size of element shouldn't matter, so you should obviously know as a dev. A proper vector editor has to be precise. It's actually even worse if the result is barely noticeable so if big prod is launched and the result doesn't fit, looks funny etc. I mean you know all this right?

To be fair, we used the standard 300 dpi of AD and the same size in CorelDRAW® 2019, only to illustrate that Kuttyjoe is wrong with “in Coreldraw it's much worse”. 0.5 pt and a diameter of 0.3 mm is not too small for CorelDRAW® 2019.