Hokusai Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 My apologies if this has been requested before but I'd like to be able to pull guides out and still be able to see the bounding box. Sorry, my explanation might not be so good but please see the attached screen shot and you'll see what I mean. It shows how I would like for it to be and not how it is now. Now in Designer if I have an object selected, it shows the centers and corners but if I pull a guide out, they don't show up anymore until I release the guide. It would be helpful if I could still see them even when placing guides. I'd like to still be able to see them while I'm dragging a guide so I can hit the center. I know, I can use snapping but I rarely use snapping because it interferes with the way I draw. I'd also like to be able to remove all the guides without having to access the guide manager too. Thanks for considering my requests. I'm very happy overall with how Designer works and I'm looking forward to 1.9! Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Are you wanting to snap to the bounding box as you drag the guides? If so use the following settings on Snapping Guides. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 If you have several objects overlapping, having Snap to Bounding Boxes turned on is of little use when you can't see the bounding box. For example, what am I snapping to here?: And by what logic does dragging a Guide out from a Ruler cause the current selection's bounding box to disappear, but doesn't cause other selection indicators to disappear?: And why don't Guides snap to nodes? JET Krustysimplex and Hokusai 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 31 minutes ago, JET_Affinity said: And why don't Guides snap to nodes? What Snapping options do you have set? My Guides seem to snap to Nodes with these options: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: What Snapping options do you have set? My Guides seem to snap to Nodes with these options: JET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Thanks. It seems that it was actually Snap to Grid that was making it seem to work for me. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Are you wanting to snap to the bounding box as you drag the guides? If so use the following settings on Snapping Guides. Old Bruce, This wouldn't help in my case as I prefer not to use any kind of snapping. It gets in the way of my drawing and unless I'm working with perfect geometric shapes it doesn't work for me but having the center displayed would greatly help me so I can see where the center is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 2 hours ago, JET_Affinity said: And why don't Guides snap to nodes? This would be very useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Currently the snapping options only really allow you to select what should be snapped to. An interesting addition might be the ability to select what should be snapped to those things - snap objects to, snap nodes to, snap guides to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 I generally have some kinds of snaps turned on whenever I'm drawing. Snapping to nodes is probably the snapping behavior I most commonly need. So an explicit "Snap To Nodes" would certainly be more clearly-defined and intuitive than "Shape Key Points" or "Object Geometry." "Object Geometry" is pretty ambiguous. To my mind, important object geometry for snapping and alignment would include V and H extrema (and other tangents) of curved segments. JET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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