Staff MEB Posted September 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2014 Is there any modifier key for this? Can't find it on the help... [EDITED ]Found it: press shift + drag until two small marks appear on the control handles. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2014 Yes - you constrain handle direction with Shift, then it'll allow snap to magnitude. I have realised that you might want to match both the magnitude of the adjoined handle on the same node, and the handle from the preceding node - will add that later. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxClass Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 On the subject of control handles. I have noticed that there is a little ‘tick’ mark generally in the center along a control handle line. 1. What does this indicate? 2. Does it have any affect upon the handle in some way? Max Quote OS X Ventura 13.0.1, Mac Studio M1 Max, 27" Apple Studio Display, 32 GB SSD. Affinity Universal License for 2.0. Mac User & Programmer since 1985 to date. Author of “SignPost” for vinyl sign cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2014 As MEB says above, the tick mark indicates that the control handle has equal magnitude to it's adjacent partner. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Hey MEB any chance of a quickie video to demonstrate what you're describing? I'm unable to duplicate a symmetrical control handle move where a tick shows up. Excuse my ignorance but what does the term magnitude in this instance refer to? Cheers guys! EDIT, I just found the little tick... Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxClass Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 After a little experimentation with handles it does works as described. If you have a pair of handles on a curve node and you edit one side handle to a different length the little ‘tick marks’ will disappear. If you go to the opposite handle and adjust its length as soon as the other handle is the same length as the one you just lengthened a ‘tick mark’ will appear to let you know they are now exactly the same length. Interesting addition to the concept of handles. Nice touch actually. A visual feedback that is actually quite nice once you understand it. Max Quote OS X Ventura 13.0.1, Mac Studio M1 Max, 27" Apple Studio Display, 32 GB SSD. Affinity Universal License for 2.0. Mac User & Programmer since 1985 to date. Author of “SignPost” for vinyl sign cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 12, 2014 It was an idea I had - just a subtle indication that you have a symmetrical node. No one else does it as far as I know. We already indicate collinear handles by virtue of the fact they naturally form a smoothed node type. I actually have many more ideas for the Pen and Node tools. A lot of these things are extensions to our snapping engine, which I'm hoping will eventually set the standard. For my own needs, I hope to add lots more features to help with alignment, finding complimentary angles, parallel lines, matched sizes, lengths and spacing, projects and intersections, etc. Just a matter of finding the time - we have many other features that need doing in the ever growing list. Taking inspiration from the videos people have uploaded of other apps doing spacing and sizing, I'm hoping we can come up with something even better rather than just copying them directly. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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