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What do you think ⌘J should be doing, and what is it actually doing? :/

The only thing I can see from your screenshots is that the highlight in the Layers panel is moving down.

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5 minutes ago, Michael Bobarev said:

Any explanations?

Could you explain what you did to create the three screenshots, or more importantly, between the three screenshots. I would guess that you pressed Ctrl-J, but you do not say so. All that seems to be different is that a different layer is selected.

John

 

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What do you want to do? This command makes a copy of the selected element and places it on the original. If you change now the copied element e.g. in width and height (or position) and hit CMD+J over and over you will see the change.

Edit: Hmm, you are on Mac? Should work on Windows and Mac the same.

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8 minutes ago, Michael Bobarev said:

+71 px -)

We don’t currently have an option to make each duplicated circle 71 px bigger than the previous one. If you duplicate a circle of radius 710 px and make the radius of the new circle 71 px bigger, it will be 10% bigger, and when you duplicate again the next one will be 10% bigger than the previous one (so instead of 710, 781, 852, 923, etc, you will get 710, 781, 859.1, 945.01, etc).

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1 minute ago, Alfred said:

We don’t currently have an option to make each duplicated circle 71 px bigger than the previous one. If you duplicate a circle of radius 710 px and make the radius of the new circle 71 px bigger, it will be 10% bigger, and when you duplicate again the next one will be 10% bigger than the previous one (so instead of 710, 781, 852, 923, etc, you will get 710, 781, 859.1, 945.01, etc).

Would be great to have ...! #features #affinity

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You can do this in a rather messy way by repeating:
* add a thick stroke to the circle;
* menu "Layer → Expand Stroke";
* menu "Layer → Geometry → Separate Curves";
* select the inner circle;
* repeat the above as many times as you need;
* remove the Fill Colour from the circles.
It’s repetitive, and you get some duplicate circles which may need to be deleted, but it’s not difficult, just time consuming.

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That makes me wonder what Cmd-J actually memories – it is obviously not exactly the user action. Otherwise it would work (and should actually) if I type in the transform panel behind the Width value "+71" then Cmd-J would create copies with this absolute +71 added for each, instead of adding any relative percentage which the user did NOT type.

It is interesting that a move action does work absolute, not relative. This different and unexpected behavior of Cmd-J for object scaling feels like a bug to me.

 

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37 minutes ago, Michael Bobarev said:

Would be great to have ...! #features #affinity

If you want to make a feature request, you need to post in the Feature Requests forum. Hash tags aren't going to do anything here.

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