em.kae.be Posted October 28, 2020 Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) I'm trying to create a curve evenly distributed between two other curves, but can't figure out how to do it in Affinity Designer on my iPad. I've attached an example of what I'm trying to do. I would like to have the red line to be exactly in the middle of the two other black curves. I'm a little new to Affinity Designer. I know this can be done easily on Illustrator using the Blend Tool, but I don't believe that exists on the iPad version of Affinity Designer. Any suggestions/help would be appreciated. Edited October 28, 2020 by emkaebe Quote
Staff Callum Posted October 29, 2020 Staff Posted October 29, 2020 Hi Em.kae.be, Welcome to the forums As far as I'm aware there is no automated way to do this I'm afraid. Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
em.kae.be Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 @Callum thank you for the reply back. That is unfortunate that this can't be automated. Any tricks you or anyone else can provide to make it as painless as possible? Given this particular situation, I can't even easily scale down or up. Thanks again for the reply back. -- em.kae.be Quote
Staff MEB Posted October 29, 2020 Staff Posted October 29, 2020 Hi em.kae.be, You can try to duplicate one of the lines, give it a large stroke until the part that extends in direction to the center of the two lines gets ...well...centered between them, then go to menu Layer > Expand Stroke, give a stroke to that expanded shape and remove its fill then break it so you end up with line part that's centered between the original lines. It won't be perfect and you may to tweak it a bit but it's a start. Similar operation can be done with the Contour Tool in v1.9 Beta. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
em.kae.be Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 @MEB thank you for the suggestion, I did try that approach initially. In my first attempt the new curve was off by a lot and not close to being in the middle. I was hoping that someone with more talent than me had an easier approach. I guess it's just tweaking a bunch once something close is created. Thanks, -- em.kae.be Quote
Staff MEB Posted October 29, 2020 Staff Posted October 29, 2020 I'm afraid there's no specific tools for this (like a Blend Tool), sorry. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Stephen_H Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 I found this discussion because I was looking for the same thing. I was just wanting to put cut lines on an A4 page to cut it evenly into 30 strips. In Illustrator, I'd just draw a 30 row grid with the grid tool, or blend 2 lines across the page with 29 divisions. (30 seconds to do it). Designer has forced me to manually duplicate a line 30 times and then align & distribute them. A real pain, especially since I seem to be constraining my movement to a 15 degree angle and I can't find out how to change my move angle contraint settings. Anyway, here's a simple work around for your particular challenge. It uses the appearance panel to layer multiple strokes on each other. I made a video because it's a mission to try explain it. 2020-10-30-10-47-35.avi Quote
em.kae.be Posted October 30, 2020 Author Posted October 30, 2020 @Stephen_H thank you for sharing the video. Funny enough I started this approach after watching this video, but I was working outside in vs inside out, which is what you are showing. My approach wasn't getting me the results I was looking for, but I think yours will. Thanks again, -- em.kae.be Quote
Paul Mudditt Posted November 1, 2020 Posted November 1, 2020 On 10/30/2020 at 9:00 AM, Stephen_H said: I found this discussion because I was looking for the same thing. I was just wanting to put cut lines on an A4 page to cut it evenly into 30 strips. In Illustrator, I'd just draw a 30 row grid with the grid tool, or blend 2 lines across the page with 29 divisions. (30 seconds to do it). Designer has forced me to manually duplicate a line 30 times and then align & distribute them. A real pain, especially since I seem to be constraining my movement to a 15 degree angle and I can't find out how to change my move angle contraint settings. Anyway, here's a simple work around for your particular challenge. It uses the appearance panel to layer multiple strokes on each other. I made a video because it's a mission to try explain it. 2020-10-30-10-47-35.avi 54.65 MB · 5 downloads Use the guide manager and enter directly the number of rows you require as a start perhaps? Alternatively use Power Duplicate and the transform studio for exact measurements and angles. Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.6 on macOS 15.4 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.6 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.6 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.4 Recommended Fan based Affinity Support Groups on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
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