"Show Rotation Centre"

[Erik Kjærbye]

In the book Affinity Designer Workbook on  page 319 point 5 it reads "With the circle selected, on the context toolbar, click Show Rotation Centre and move teh circle's centre to th middle of the square".

 

I don't know if the interface differs depending on the computer being Mac or Windows? I am using a Microsoft Surface Book 2, and following both the Workbooks for Photo and Designer, sometimes the appropriate controls can be difficault to find - but in this particular case I simply can't find it!

[Joachim_L]

Welcome to the Affinity forums. Perhaps this is meant?

[Erik Kjærbye]

Hi Joachim! Not quite! Thanks for your consern though! As a matter of fact - the control you pointed out had slipped my attention - but it didn't solve the issue!

The operation is selecting a circle and rotate (copy) it with a centre outside the circle itself. I add two shots from the book to illustrate.

Best regards 

Erik

Puc2.pdf Pic1.pdf

[MEB]

Hi @Erik Kjærbye,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
The control Joaquim_L pointed out above is correct. You now have to drag the marker that appears in the centre of the circle to the middle of the square then proceed with he rest of the steps (duplicate and rotate the circles).

[Erik Kjærbye]

Ahhh!!

I got it!

The author meant "drag the transform origin from the centre of the circle to the centre of the square"?!

(Still I can't find the referred "Show Rotation Centre" on the context toolbar!)

Thanks MEB and Joachim!

 

 

[Patrick Connor]

Seems that "Show Rotation Centre" is now called "Enable Transform Origin" in it's tooltip, thanks.

@acapstick one for any future reprint

[MEB]

Hi @Erik Kjærbye,
Show Rotation Centre was the tooltip/identifier used up to version 1.6x. In newer versions the tooltip now reads "Enable Transform Origin" but it's the same command.

[acapstick]

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