valeriogallo Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Using Affinity Designer 2.0.0 for Windows. If I draw a measurement line with the measurement tool, the line disappears as soon as I change the tool. I would have expected to be able to keep the lines visible (and printable) with the measure. Same thing for the measurement of the area ChrisHawkins and DanQ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Welcome to the forums @valeriogallo According to the Help: “Measurements are not permanently displayed, are non-printable and are not saved with your document.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremriel Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 The help file mentions this: Quote Measurements are not permanently displayed, are non-printable and are not saved with your document It would have been nice if these measurements were permanent, though. DanQ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valeriogallo Posted November 9, 2022 Author Share Posted November 9, 2022 Understood. Permanent and printable measurements would have been reason enough to upgrade from version 1 to version 2, without it probably not worth it for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWCTas Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 I bought the Suite too when I saw that it could import CAD files. I don't understand why you can use the measurement tool to measure the area etc., the measurement is displayed but then it disappears. Not happy. Please fix this Serif. Regards, George ChrisHawkins and DanQ 2 Quote MacOS Ventura iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) Intel Core i7(4.2 GHz) 32GB DDR4 2400MHz 1TB SSD Hard drive 12TB OWC Thunderbay 4 Built-In Retina LCD 5120 x 2880 AMD Radeon Pro 580 8GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal-Marcel Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Same here - I was hoping it would keep the measurements visible so I could print them with my drawing. It was one of the main reasons why I ugraded. Disappointed! ChrisHawkins and DanQ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisHawkins Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 I am a cabinet maker and I upgraded to v2 (universal license) solely for the measure tool. The fact that the measure line is non-persistent and not printable is bizarre and pointless. I now have to abandon Designer (after - literally - a few seconds of use) and revert to Graphic Really grateful if you would correct this. DanQ and Aammppaa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanQ Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Same here... Area measure tool sound great, and it works pretty good, but what is the point not to be able to keep these numbers? I can't even copy the text from info bar, which make it highly inpractical.. Is affinity saying that we should just have to use paper and pen to keep these measurement? What is it? 19 century or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Well, new forum users should maybe better first search and look through the already existing forum threads about these themes, since most new postings here are always just uneccessary repitions of already existing threads! Like for example ... ... and so on! R C-R 1 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...
w8d8s Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Does anyone know if Serif will make the measure tool or area tool in Affinity Designer V2 have the ability to keep the dimensions or area numbers on a page after you measure? This functionality alone would convince me (and many others considering the forum posts over the years) to switch to V2 -- but until then I will remain with V1. Seems unbelievable that they didn't make this functionality part of the measure tool for V2 when so many people over the years have asked for a simple, useful dimensioning tool. Right now, it is not very useful to just give me one dimension and then have that disappear. As an architect, this would be massively helpful, and I can imagine many other design fields including graphic design and illustration where this would be helpful. Huge oversight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Welcome to the forums @w8d8s 57 minutes ago, w8d8s said: Does anyone know if Serif will make the measure tool or area tool in Affinity Designer V2 have the ability to keep the dimensions or area numbers on a page after you measure? No-one except the Serif staff will know this and they generally don’t tell us users about future changes in functionality, for various good reasons. All we can do is make a request, which has already been done (quite a few times for this specific issue, as you have seen), and then wait and see. There's nothing that anyone outside of Serif can do about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin B Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Well, I'm very happy with the Measure Tool as a new feature, sure it could be improved over time but I believe it's a decent start for a 50€ non-subscription software. The CAD import is indeed useful to me, but the more CAD tools they add in the closer we come to something like Corel Technical at 499,00 €/year -- ten times the cost of Affinity Designer in just one year. Oh, and Corel is owned by KKR via a holding company with the funny name of ALLUDO, along with a mix of other software companies. I'm sure that KKR has much more interest in making and hording money than in graphic design software and its humble users . . . . I prefer the Serif Affinity approach much more. Perhaps the solution is as@firstdefence wrote of, a CAD add-on tool named Hot Doors CADtools that the CAD-oriented Designer users could purchase as needed. Just my two cents worth! K 499,00 €/ firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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