Gaz Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Something that is missing from Adobe Illustrator, and would be good in Affinity Designer are Technical Illustration Tools:- Isometric Grid, allowing constraint along 30º as well as vertical Isometric elipses (35º Elipses, with minor axis constrained to Grid Axis) Ability to join circles and ellipses with a tangent line tool, connecting one circle to another with a line. Ability to delete line or curve up to another intersecting line / lines / curves with a key stroke. 1 Draw a line or curve, 2 Draw two additional lines / curves, both overlapping original at different locations, 3 Select the middle part of the first line / curve 4 Press a key to delete the part of the line / curve up to each of the intersecting lines curves. 5 Option to select multiple lines / curves and perform this to all of them at the same time would be living the dream :-) Thanks Gaz 3dtp Ltd Matthias, Petar Petrenko, Robcis and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 These tools would be amazing. Tangent snapping alone would be incredible for a wide range of applications from logo design to scientific illustration, not just isometric technical illustration. A_B_C and Gaz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NURBS Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I have registered just to be able to support this. Not sure about the isometrics, but tangent snapping and trimming would be a godsend in a design drawing software. Gaz and A_B_C 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshTeriyaki Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 There's isometric grids in affinity already. Not sure about the rest. Gaz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 There's isometric grids in affinity already. Not sure about the rest. I can get a standard flat 2D grid to show, but can't seem to find an Isometric grid anywhere. Any idea how to access it ? The Help only mentions a flat 2D grid. An Isometric grid would be very useful. Just found it… View > Grid and Axis Manager :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted December 7, 2015 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2015 We like to hide the useful stuff in menus... ;) Gaz and MEB 2 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...
A_B_C Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 +1 :) Gaz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 I've also discovered that holding CMD down, allows you to draw a circle from the centre, holding down the CTRL key draws to the major axis, and holding down shift constrains the ellipses size. This really is a brilliant drawing program, and so much slicker than Illustrator once you find everything. Can I make a suggestion that the Circle tool gets a sub menu that creates ellipses at different angles. Perhaps the current selected angle could appear in the tool bar, within the circle. Here's a picture of how I'd see it working. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchDude Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 All of the above. Very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robcis Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Are there any developments in regards to this? This would be tremendously useful to multiple different design disciplines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robcis Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 By the way, I know that this is an old video, but Vectorworks app seems to be able to do what the OP is illustrating here. It's one of the only apps that can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 17, 2019 Not yet. The only problem we have with tangents is that we don't have true circles or ellipses. They are Cubic Bezier quadrant approximations. We could do something to facilitate creating a tangent line, but the tangent point would be subject to a degree of inaccuracy. This might be fine for purely visual items. I was actually looking at the maths required for determining tangents to a Cubic Bezier (for other purposes) - and it is not trivial. It requires finding the roots of a fifth degree polynomial, which can't be done easily. A_B_C 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...
Staff Ben Posted January 17, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 17, 2019 BTW - we now have a feature that allows you to create and edit shapes on axonometric planes. So, you can create a correct ellipse on an isometric plane. On that note - I'm not sure that 35 degrees is an accurate ellipse for isometric. I think the actual angle is fractional. 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...
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