gary danang Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Hi Everyone I am trying to draw a simplified plan over an exisitng CAD drawing [Signage exercise) I have rotated the grid to match the architecture, turned on snapping to the grid But the new objects do not reflect the rotated grid , neither does the shap bounding box... see image making it painful to create the simplified architecture Is there any way to rotate the coordinate [axis] system to match the rotated grid? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I am unaware of any way to do this but.... Would it not be easier to rotate the " exisitng CAD drawing [Signage exercise)" and then do your additions and re rotate the contents? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | 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...
gary danang Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 If it was only one plan.. yes.. but I have 10 plans with multiple grid alighnments.... most cad packages allow you to position and rotate the grid origin ( and save it) with a simple command.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 If it's in Designer try out the Isomorhic mode and there then "Top placement" and "Fit to plane" etc. You can also customize the isomorhic grid there, maybe you can get it to match what you need. Tutorials: Square and triangular grids Isometric design and grid setup Advanced axonometric grid setup Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary danang Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 I am using the two axis grid with custom settings .sort of got it working with these settings but I had to rotate the rectangle to the grid alignment - it did not default to that alignment when drawing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 6 hours ago, gary danang said: I am using the two axis grid with custom settings .sort of got it working with these settings but I had to rotate the rectangle to the grid alignment - it did not default to that alignment when drawing it Your grid is not isometric, but use the Isometric studio panel (View > Studio > Isometric). The panel is poorly named because it is not restricted to being useful for an isometric grid only. If you enable its "Edit in Plane" option, you'll be able to create rectangles that are aligned to your rotated grid. The other buttons listed under "Plane editing options" are not options; they perform actions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, anon2 said: The panel is poorly named because it is not restricted to being useful for an isometric grid only. An odd choice of name, given that the more general term ‘axonometric’ covers the isometric case. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Alfred said: An odd choice of name, given that the more general term ‘axonometric’ covers the isometric case. Its usefulness is not restricted to axonometric grids, so Axonometric would also be a misleading name. For example, it is useful for the simple rotated orthogonal grid being used by the OP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Maybe this spotlight article here ... How to use the new isometric drawing tools in Affinity Designer ... helps the OP too a little bit with that stuff. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Maybe this spotlight article here ... How to use the new isometric drawing tools in Affinity Designer ... helps the OP too a little bit with that stuff. Yes, possibly, but it's important that the OP is not misled by the demonstration into thinking that objects must be created in the canvas plane and then be transformed to a grid plane. The OP needs to know that "Edit in plane" allows objects to be created in a grid plane, not just edited in a grid plane. v_kyr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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