Sine tool

[keithrt]

This may be an unusual request, but for those of us who do technical drawings could we please have a tool to draw sine waves? An option to set peaks per inch or something similar would be helpful also.

[R C-R]

39 minutes ago, keithrt said:

This may be an unusual request...

There is a separate forum for feature requests. 

[h_d]

If you're on macOS you can use the default-installed Grapher application to create a sine wave graph (and much more complicated stuff) and export it as an image (tiff/eps/pdf/jpg). You can then place the exported file in whichever Affinity application you choose.

I may be wrong but I suspect it's unlikely that Serif will develop or introduce this sort of functionality any time soon - their emphasis is on graphic design, image manipulation and desktop publishing.

But as @R C-R points out, it might be worth posting in the Feedback and Suggestions section of this forum.

[thomaso]

Not really a "tool" … but allows to set vertical peaks (or horizontal zero points) per inch.

[R C-R]

9 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Not really a "tool" …

Nor I think is it a mathematically correct sine curve, but maybe close enough for some uses?

[NotMyFault]

Simply use the sine shape from here:

 

Best to create an asset or symbol from the curve.

Then, power-duplicate and stretch as required.

You can create a bitmap sine curve by procedural texture filter in Photo, and use input variables to adjust size and frequency. Use this as drawing background to visually match the sine curve.

[tudor]

@keithrt try this tool: https://www.sinwaver.com 

[v_kyr]

WolframAlpha ...

• {sin(x), sin(x+2)}

... Data Download.

Further there are a bunch of Python based Notebooks and mathplot tools which can all do that much better and export to bitmap or vector file formats for data exchange.

[Lisbon]

Hi @keithrt

I don't know if it helps, but procedural textures (PT) come with the sine function and with a few adjustments you can actually get sine waves.
Just play with the PT and gradient map. Avoid changing group content. Download at the end.

Example:

 

SineWave.afphoto