Automatic layers naming based on User naming?

[VectorCat]

Imagine making a shape, like a wooden plank. As you added shapes to make your plank, (parent layer named "Plank" - under this idea, rather than having:

Plank

curve

curve

curve

you'd instead get

Plank

Plank-1

Plank-2

Plank-3

 

Useful, or faff?

[Old Bruce]

14 hours ago, VectorCat said:

Useful, or faff?

Useful. Filled with potential pitfalls, 

Arm

   arm 1

   arm 2 -- damnit I want wrist

   arm 3 -- I mean hand...

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Overall much more useful than the current inability to have any sort of auto naming. 

[Frozen Death Knight]

3D programs solve the naming issue with having batch renaming of objects. Just search for a specific name or object type, then change the name with different settings like based on selection hierarchy, all, etc. Would be nice if Affinity adopted that feature as well.

[MmmMaarten]

On 5/19/2022 at 4:47 AM, VectorCat said:

you'd instead get

Plank

Plank-1

Plank-2

Plank-3

 

Useful, or faff?

Like @Old Bruce I wouldn't be for it. Here that behaviour would cause a lot of issues and extra work to correct it, so I am not for it (at least not without being able to turn this behaviour off). This is an assumption that's definitely not working for everybody I'm afraid.