S1monSays Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 3rd time in 2 days that I end up here because Affinity Designer lacks the most fundamental tools... absolutely unbelievable. I just checked: Aldus/Adobe Freehand MX (2002): spiral tool present AI (CS 6): spiral tool is there Corel Draw 2019: spiral too available Rhino CAD: has spiral tool Inkscape: yup, has a spiral toolAffinity Designer V1.10.5 (end of 2022): NIX, NADA, NOTHING Unbelievable. I'm slowly beginning to suspect that AD is optimized for the quick production of flashy eye candy but not for the professional development of user interfaces, diagrams, illustration, technical documentation or how-tos... kemie and Frances Proctor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted March 9, 2023 Staff Share Posted March 9, 2023 Hi @S1monSays, Just to let you know, I've moved your post to the Feedback section of the Affinity Forums - as it's better suited here. Unfortunately our developers don't tend to comment on Feedback requests, but this will be taken into consideration by our team for a future update. Equally, V1 of the Affinity apps are no longer receiving new feature updates, since we released Affinity V2 last year. Therefore if this tool were to be implemented into Affinity, it would be in a future update of V2 or beyond. I hope this clears things up. Markus van der Westhuizen and Frances Proctor 2 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 13 hours ago, S1monSays said: Aldus/Adobe Freehand MX (2002): spiral tool present AI (CS 6): spiral tool is there Corel Draw 2019: spiral too available Rhino CAD: has spiral tool Inkscape: yup, has a spiral tool You could add "VectorStyler" (Mac/Windows) to your list it has this tool and many more that you might also miss in AD. (no Subscription too) AD and VS work very well together via the clipboard Frances Proctor and Boldlinedesign 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Proctor Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 You could also add Xara designer pro X to that list Sadly though theirs is part of their subscription and with out keeping up an increasingly expensive subscription you lose access to it They implemented theirs as a shape tool which would a great way for affinity to add it too! Just imagine being able to drag a spiral on to your page and be able to quickly edit it with some of those special nodes! And no subscription needed! Quote Follow me on Creative Fabrica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Serif DrawPlus (Windows only) has a Spiral Tool. Frances Proctor 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Proctor Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 There could be lots of uses for spirals from plant illustrations to Greek meanders to logo design Alfred 1 Quote Follow me on Creative Fabrica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 11 hours ago, 2ddpainter said: You could add "VectorStyler" (Mac/Windows) to your list it has this tool and many more that you might also miss in AD. (no Subscription too) AD and VS work very well together via the clipboard Vectorstyler is indeed the best companion app to Designer in terms of covering as many tools and features as possible. Owning both means you don't have to waste time waiting for Affinity to catch up (if they would even attempt to since they are not trying to necessarily be a full featured vector app) _Th 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 6 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said: Unless you are working on iPad, in which case it is the other way round. Not really because if you're working on an iPad, you're still very much limited by what Affinity Designer offers in terms of features and tools - you're only gaining mobility of use. While Vectorstyler does not yet offer an iPad version, I'd much prefer a stable and feature rich desktop-only program like VS than one that has multiple platforms and a limited feature set Pšenda and SureWeb 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1monSays Posted March 24, 2023 Author Share Posted March 24, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 11:13 AM, Dan C said: Hi @S1monSays, Just to let you know, I've moved your post to the Feedback section of the Affinity Forums - as it's better suited here. Unfortunately our developers don't tend to comment on Feedback requests, but this will be taken into consideration by our team for a future update. Equally, V1 of the Affinity apps are no longer receiving new feature updates, since we released Affinity V2 last year. Therefore if this tool were to be implemented into Affinity, it would be in a future update of V2 or beyond. I hope this clears things up. Thanks & thanks for your patience. I didn't expect developers to read my (or other people's rants "down here"). I am also aware that the world has moved on to V2.0 ... then again, all the "legacy" tools I used 10, 20 years ago had basic functionality (like the spiral, the cutting tool, a distribute function) that are nonexistent AD V1.9 which doesn't really make sense to me as - at least in my world - where you start with the basics and THEN add the bells and whistles. But having worked in marketing for 15+ years, I know that you need to sometimes need to be different so people are noticing you... so I re-installed Inkscape and Corel!Draw in parallel and fabri-cobbled together a "unique" workflow until I know whether I want to stick with Serif (I just might, as I really, really hate Adobe!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Henderson Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 I've used a lot of those old vector graphics applications (still have a couple old Freehand Graphics Studio boxes). It might be nice to have a Spiral tool, particularly if the tool has a decent amount of options for users to define the tightness or looseness of the spiral loops. On the other hand I would probably be more likely to use a "twirl" warp tool to generate spiral effects on select pieces of existing vector artwork. It is possible for a vector "drawing" application to support both ideas. The spiral tools in rival vector graphics applications typically draw out open paths in what appears like a stove top burner spiral. That kind of thing can be useful, but I usually need to do something additional to the path -such as apply a vector-based "brush" effect to it in Adobe Illustrator for the effect to really work well. Westerwälder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 @Bobby Henderson could recommend to download and try the demo of Vectorstyler _Th and Boldlinedesign 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Henderson Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 My "daily driver" vector applications are Adobe Illustrator CC and CorelDRAW (just did the 2023 upgrade on my workplace license). I have Affinity Designer on hand in case I receive any customer provided artwork created in that format. I'm not very familiar with VectorStyler, although it does look like it has a pretty impressive set of features. Boldlinedesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ddpainter Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Bobby Henderson said: look like it has a pretty impressive set of features. Indeed, this is the case. My main vector graphics application was CorelDraw. I still have a copy of CorelDraw 2021, I like the symmetry feature and of course I have a copy of Affinity Designer on PC and Ipad. More than a year ago I discovered VectorStyler and it is now my main vector graphics program. Because of its features and i am still impressed. But more important the developer is very open for new ideas and how to make the Software better. Its sometimes already in the next build. Boldlinedesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ash Posted October 25, 2023 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2023 Hi All, Thanks for your feedback. Spiral tool is now available in the 2.3 beta if you want to give it a go... Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastVector Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Love the new spiral tool. It is now also available in the new update V2.3. Hopefully we will see the Blend tool released in V2.4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus van der Westhuizen Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Yay! I'm so happy the spiral tool finally made it to Affinity. And thank you for making it so much better than the Adobe Illustrator Spiral Tool. I'm in love! A few more options for gradients along paths would be amazing 🤩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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