RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Hello, can you please help me: why does not snap parts to each others's corner points? Please have a look to the attached files: There you can see my try to create a wrench icon. See the steps I made. Why doesn't the orange part snap in right place? I've tryed different settings for snapping / aligning. Than you for your help. Rainer PS: in the second attachement you can see how easy it is to create this form in Illustrater using the form creation tool. I want to have such a tool in Designer too. Serif, wouldn't Easter be a good point in time to make a present to all Designer users? Please make a easter gift within a form creation tool. Wrench Designer.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 This is an alternative way to get what you want. Pšenda 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Thank you, yes this is a solution for especially this problem but that wasn't the Question: Why doesn't the smaler part snap on the corner points of the bigger part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 I think this might depend on what you mean by the “corner points” of a rounded shape. Can you get a screen grab and draw where you think the corners should be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Not kind of a big deal methinks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Yes, that’s another way to do this specific thing with these two specific shapes but it would be nice to get more information from the OP, as requested above, to see if we can come up with a more generalised answer/solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 He pretty sure sure looks for AI´s awesome Shapebuilder-tool - one of the most requested feature for AD I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 That’s what it sounds like but, since Designer hasn’t got that sort of thing (yet), it would be nice to be able to give them some techniques that can be used while waiting for that functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, GarryP said: it would be nice to be able to give them some techniques that can be used while waiting for that functionality. Already done - no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 Oh, I thought it would be clear with the attachement "Wrench Designer.afdesign" in my firts post. Why does the upper corner point of the small object not snap to the appropriate corner of the big one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 PixelPest: I wouldn’t say so. They asked about snapping to “corner points” and the solutions given already don’t address that, as far as I can see.RainerH: Can you explain – or give a diagram – showing what you mean by a “corner point”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 OK, my skills to solve exatly this problem with the wrench where to low. I think I've to work a lot to reach better knowledge of the funktions. I'm looking through Illustrator glases an some fuctions are different in AD but the AD's functions also are productive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Still don´t know which Point should snap to which one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 In the attachement in my first post I added red arrows and circles to descript what I mean a corner point is. My english isn't as gog as it should be to descript every thing and i use the german version of Affinity software so I maybe don't use the right names of the tools in AD. Here is a clipping of my design. Could you see with this picture, what I mean with "corner points"? I've no other idea how to explain it if not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Like so? Ray S. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainerH Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 @PixelPest Yes exactly like so! That was the mistake: I took the move tool, and you are using the knot-tool. Please would you be so kind to try it a second time with my example ("Wrench Designer.afdesign") in my firts post. After placing the orange part in right position, please subtract it from the green one. What's your result? Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, RainerH said: @PixelPest Yes exactly like so! That was the mistake: I took the move tool, and you are using the knot-tool. Please would you be so kind to try it a second time with my example ("Wrench Designer.afdesign") in my firts post. After placing the orange part in right position, please subtract it from the green one. What's your result? Thank you in advance. Another thing you can do is use the Point Transform Tool, because it allows you to move the "Transform Origin" (The circle thing with the cross inside), and that will snap to Nodes and Paths: Here you can see that I moved the Transform Origin to the corner of your shape and now it can snap to the round path (the ywllow lines indicates that it's snapping io it): In the following example, I noved the Transform Origin to another part of the Shape and there's where the shape is goint to snap (see the yellow line again): Hope that helps too. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 27 minutes ago, RainerH said: @PixelPest Yes exactly like so! That was the mistake: I took the move tool, and you are using the knot-tool. Please would you be so kind to try it a second time with my example ("Wrench Designer.afdesign") in my firts post. After placing the orange part in right position, please subtract it from the green one. What's your result? Thank you in advance. More or less it goes like so: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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