nametag Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has found out how to easily make isometric circles or ellipses in Affinity Designer? In Illustrator, I could draw an isometric side of a cube, and use Effects > Stylize > Round Corners and set the value to max. When using the Rounded Corners tool in Affinity, it doesn't seem to product the same results. Any ideas? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakk Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi nametag I would use the circle shape and snapping to the isometric grid. Quote OS X 10.12 - AP 1.6.6 - AD 1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nametag Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi nametag I would use the circle shape and snapping to the isometric grid. Thanks Yakk. This works for the top, but is there any way to do the sides the same way? Also, how do you use this method to get the circle to "fit" inside a rectangular grid, rather than extend beyond (see screenshot of example.. this was just eyeballed)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted August 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 19, 2015 You would get a better result if you rotate the edge of the shape onto the grid, then skew in the other axis. The bounding box will then lie on the grid lines. With snapping on for grids, this should be easy. I will be adding tools for doing this automatically at some point, as well as enabling you to create Shapes in grid space. MEB 1 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...
nametag Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 You would get a better result if you rotate the edge of the shape onto the grid, then skew in the other axis. The bounding box will then lie on the grid lines. With snapping on for grids, this should be easy. I will be adding tools for doing this automatically at some point, as well as enabling you to create Shapes in grid space. Thanks Ben! Having a hard time processing how this would work. Would you mind sharing a screenshot or screen recording of this process? Thanks. And very excited to see future isometric tools! Affinity is already by far my favorite tool to create isometric illustrations in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi nametag, This clip is for a text object but it's exactly the same process for a shape. You just have to skew the shape/object as in the clip. Let me know if you still have trouble. A_B_C and MacGueurle 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nametag Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi nametag, This clip is for a text object but it's exactly the same process for a shape. You just have to skew the shape/object as in the clip. Let me know if you still have trouble. Awesome, works perfectly MEB. Didn't realize you could skew shapes like that (I had been trying key combinations). Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 20, 2015 You're welcome ^_^ Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulbg Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I'm converting ellipses to create curved outlines. So...I use the ellipse tool, make the shape set the fill to 0% and use outline at black 10px. lovely circle. However when I cut an ellipse by breaking the nodes and removing the piece, I have the line...but also the remaining piece of the ellipse as an outlined as well. All I want is the ellipse line. The Outline View Mode doesn't show them but the image/print view does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 19, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2016 Hi Paulg, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) I'm not sure i understood you correctly. Any chance you can send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? (new users can't upload files directly to the forum in the beginning) You can use this link to upload it to my Dropbox account. If the outline you are talking about is pink, that's to indicate the object is a snapping candidate. To disable this go to menu View ▸ Snapping Manager... and uncheck Show snapping candidates. You also said you set the fill to 0%. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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