Borisko Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Hi everyone, I have looked in the forum for a trace of this, and couldn't find it in the functionalities in the App, but it is such a sadly missing function of Illustrator that it is, for me, entirely necessary to add it to Affinity Designer to make it THE Adobe killer. Some of you might have used Inkscape in the past, I discovered it very recently, being a mac user (and it is far from user friendly on a Mac...): The Spiro Spline, or automatic smooth curves, swirls and swooshes. For both typography and ornaments, 2 "hot topics" nowadays, this tool is just fantastic. There are 2 elements that are genius about it: - First, it calculates automatically the "smallest curve value" between two points or a specific node, transforming any rough angle into smooth curves to create spirographic-style designs so easily it made my jaw drop when I discovered it (it is a nightmare in Illustrator). - Second, and that's the most powerful, is the ability to edit "live and dynamically" the shape used as the fill of the stroke. Meaning you can easily conver a simple curve into a gorgeous "fat to slim" swirl and create highly editable ornaments on the go, using triangles and other shapes. For those who never heard of it, check those two links, you will just be... wowed. A simple tutorial to show your the "spiro magic" http://verysimpledesigns.com/vectors/inkscape-tutorial-spiro-swirls.html And this one to show you how powerful it is, especially for Typography design: Inkscape + Spiro (sorry it's in Spanish–which I'm not, and it goes fast, but it's quite straightforward). This, combined to the user-friendliness of Affinity Designer, would make me put the premium for it right away. Hope you enjoy it guys! Boris peter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted October 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 2, 2014 Have you checked out the "Smart points" mode of the Pen tool. Looking at the link you gave, smart points already does this for curve creation. The spiral bit can be achieved by adjusting the Pressure profile for the path, but we don't do the fancy spiral stuff yet. BBkuro 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...
Raskolnikov Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 And this one to show you how powerful it is, especially for Typography design: Inkscape + Spiro (sorry it's in Spanish–which I'm not, and it goes fast, but it's quite straightforward). Incredible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jradicus Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Yeah that tool is pretty incredible in inkscape. I was trying to replicate it with smart mode for the pen tool in AD and I couldn't really get it down. I'd definitely like to see something like this in AD. For making flourishes on text and logos this would come in super handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Amazing, lets hope this ends up on the roadmap :) Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paekke Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 And this one to show you how powerful it is, especially for Typography design: Inkscape + Spiro (sorry it's in Spanish–which I'm not, and it goes fast, but it's quite straightforward). Great stuff here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adi_cataleya Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBkuro Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 (edited) Has this "Spiro Curves" feature get any notice yet? 😃 At least I hope everyone still remember it, and put it on the roadmap. ...And no Overlay version for better comparision. Edited December 6, 2022 by BBkuro Additional Information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomi02118 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 I forgot how much I wanted a spiral feature! It’s was one feature illustrator had I missed when I started with Designer. BBkuro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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