Thomahawk Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Why is there a transformation origin point who does nothing? Take this circle as an example. The origin is activated and in the center. Yet when I take an edge and change its size, proportional or otherwise, it does not change from the center but from the opposite edge? affinity designer 1.8.3 on Mac Mojave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 27 minutes ago, Thomahawk said: Why is there a transformation origin point who does nothing? Take this circle as an example. The origin is activated and in the center. Yet when I take an edge and change its size, proportional or otherwise, it does not change from the center but from the opposite edge? affinity designer 1.8.3 on Mac Mojave Good question. I guess it is named not according to what it actually does. It's more of a rotation center. If you move it and then rotate you will notice that it rotates around this origin. If you want to change the with of an object around its midpoint then you have to press CTRL (on PC, I think its Command on the Mac). d. Old Bruce and wtrmlnjuc 2 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceom Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 It's for the Point Transform Tool, shortcut F; also for the Transform Panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 46 minutes ago, Arceom said: It's for the Point Transform Tool, shortcut F; also for the Transform Panel Thanks, this is true. But still it seems a bit unclear with the naming of the Move Tool. d. wtrmlnjuc 1 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 5:03 AM, dominik said: change the with of an object around its midpoint then you have to press CTRL (on PC, I think its Command on the Mac). It is command on the Mac. It will resize around the transformation origin instead of the center when the transformation origin is visible. Same with shear: holding down command shears around the transformation origin when it is visible, or the center when it is not. dominik 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 21 minutes ago, fde101 said: It is command on the Mac. It will resize around the transformation origin instead of the center when the transformation origin is visible. Thanks for confirming. But I think transformation around the origin works wether the origin is visible or not. Is this different on the Mac? d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 1 hour ago, dominik said: But I think transformation around the origin works wether the origin is visible or not. Is this different on the Mac? If the other platform is behaving that way, then evidently so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 5/6/2020 at 4:21 PM, dominik said: Thanks for confirming. But I think transformation around the origin works wether the origin is visible or not. Is this different on the Mac? d. On a Mac: If the TO is visible, rotation is around the TO and cmd enables scaling and shearing/skewing around the TO. If the TO is not visible, rotation is around the centre of the object's bounding box and cmd enables scaling and shearing/skewing around the centre of the object's bounding box. Essentially, a visible TO overrides an object's default origin for rotation, scaling and shearing/skewing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomahawk Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 22 hours ago, fde101 said: It is command on the Mac. It will resize around the transformation origin instead of the center when the transformation origin is visible. Same with shear: holding down command shears around the transformation origin when it is visible, or the center when it is not. Okay, right, seems it really needs to also hold command on Mac then it really zooms from the point set. But that is what I always say - why have things to be so hard in Affinitys Software. Its the same with so many things, they do not work intuitively, its always too complicated. Like in this case, when you set that origin point you kind of just expect it to work. What is the point when you change its position but that does not change any behaviour. Its just bad GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver twist Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Excuse me, why do we have to "Command-drag" to resize and just "drag" to rotate around the transformation origin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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