Chiyonosake013 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I’ll add a +1 to this. It would be incredibly handy when marking up design files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KishZera Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 +1 for a dimension tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu topie Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) +1 aussi pour un outil de cotation l'un des principaux facteurs qui ne me fait pas quitter Illustrator c'est Cadtool de hotdoor justement et un outil de cotation directement intégré à Publisher ou designer serait juste extraordinaire !!! Edited January 24, 2021 by Lu topie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kokosz Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 +1 for a dimension tool, definitely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Dimension tool is not a priority (but I would be happy to have this tool…). We really need things impossible to do actually with actual tools. Can you deform easily an object or text ? Impossible Can you blend two different shapes in a gradient ? Impossible Can you create vector patterns ? Impossible Can you transform a pixel picture in vectors ? Impossible Can you add dimensions ? Yes. I know that it's a bit painful but you can. And it's more easy now with the End & Start options. qwz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Langham Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hi, I'm a chartered architect and I would love to use Affinity Designer (which I have purchased) but I find it is completely useless to me as I cannot set a drawing scale, such as 1 to 50 or 1 to 200, and then have a dimension tool where I can pick up (click on) a couple of points in a drawing and have a dimension line appear with the relevant dimension set to the scale I am currently working on. We of course use tools such as AutoCAD but for colourful client's initial design plans and elevations I have had to revert back to CorelDraw where I can set the scale of the drawing and then dimension within it to that set scale. I have shown Affinity to a number of architectural colleagues and we all think it has great potential and we would use it, but cannot without a simple set to scale drawing ability. Even better, if the Affinity team could make it so that we can set different areas of the drawing to different scales then it would finally beat CorelDRAW hands down. kenmcd and mdriftmeyer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveE Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Sadly the years roll-by with no apparent take-up by the design team to remedy this clearly widely requested ability. To do so would, as Roger has just suggested, take Affinity Designer to a status above that of CorelDRAW. I sincerely hope the designers finally take this on-board and thus lay this shortfall to rest, once and for all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryl W Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Struggling with Designer for technical drawings with dimensions and scale. Would really appreciate these functions. islou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amvjb Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Technology and art go hand in hand in many areas. Such tools are very important if you want to combine technique and art. islou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rt-it Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Gotta have it!!! islou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grz Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 I dropped Adobe Illustrator for Affinity Designer. I miss the dimensioning tool the most. I'm guessing not for everyone but a dimensioning tool would be very useful. +1 rt-it and islou 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islou Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Another +1 Here. This is really stopping me switching to Designer full time for work. rt-it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hywel Harris Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 +1 for the dimension tool. I'm transitioning (well, looking to) from CorelDraw. The fundamental impression one gets for AD is that is it intended for illustration work. There are so many great examples of what it can do in that direction. What is missing is the attention to drawing where print/web is NOT the end result. There are so many aspects of design that are not part of the 'output to a rectangle' format too. So why do we have to have a page defined? CorelDraw is able to work seamlessly without displaying a page, meaning small architectural drawings can be drawn at real world scale. And with an efficient application why not a drawing 100m in size ? The focus on paper size needs to be removed since paper isn't always involved in the end result. Once you grasp the concept of output to other than a rectangular print/web format then dimensions become an essential part of the workflow. rt-it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 3 hours ago, Hywel Harris said: So why do we have to have a page defined? Hi @Hywel Harris, in AD you are not limited to pages. Alternatively you can use artboards and they can have any size and even any shape. Create a circle and with the artboard tool turn it into an artboard. Cheers, d. rt-it 1 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveE Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Hi @Hywel Harris& @dominik, Appreciating your respective posts, we remain unable to include vector scaled dimensions on our designs, and thus continue to miss out on a valuable and powerful feature from this otherwise excellent application 😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 +1 PLEASE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proline Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 +1 Please. I was formerly both an Adobe and Corel user, but now migrated all the workflow into Affinity. It will such a great help if it provided the dynamic dimension tools. It's such a pain to input and edit the dimension text manually. Especially if the work need many details on the dimension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith P Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Yes, we 100% require a dimension tool. I still find myself having to go back to Drawplus to produce dimensioned drawings, which is an absolute chore. Please Affinity development team - I'm sure there is lots of other users like us who spend our lives marking up site plans, designing systems, drawing building layouts on a daily basis. Affinity Designer helps me produce quality documents which are streets ahead of my competitors - but it's such a pain not being able to do a simple scaled drawing. Could you please advise whether this is actually on your product roadmap - or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldego Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I totally agree. Not having auto dimensioning is the one feature that prevents me from using and fully embracing AD on a regular basis. A whole bunch of colleagues and friends echo my sentiments. It's been almost six years since this request was first made. I wish we could get a definitive response from the Affinity team so some of us can either wait for its development or move on. Just let your faithful users know, okay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveE Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Hi Development Team, the collective request from so many of your loyal user base should I hope justify providing the dimensioning tools that have been asked for, since almost day one of this otherwise excellent application. It seems such a shame that this feature request has been unanswered for so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve A Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Another vote for a dimensioning tool. I design stage sets and it is essential to be able to label lines etc with dimensions and/or a text label. At the moment I have to use Graphic but would like to be able to switch to AD for all my projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nano517 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 New user here in interior design field; and yes add me to your request list. I am abandoning Adobe; but the cadtool plugin in AI is the very last thing that I still cling to....reluctantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aciden Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 +1 PLEASE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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