AustinRW Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Hello, Its been a while since I've posted here but the times I have, the community has been of much help. I'm having an issue on trying to create a nice globe/sphere vector in designer and not really sure if its possible without having to draw each line one by one and as symmetrically as possible. I'm trying to make a sphere vector/wireframe like the example shown on this post where you only see the vector lines on the visible face (not to where you can see the back side as if its see through). If anyone know, this would be of great help and appreciation. EDIT: thank you all for the help, using inkscape was perfect for creating a sphere wireframe and configuring how I want it. thank you all for the information and tips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 It might be possible to do what you want but, because the Affinity applications have no 3D capabilities, it would take a lot of careful work possibly with a lot of manual calculations – unless someone has a good method which I don’t know about. I think I saw a technique for making something close to this sort of thing a while back but that only worked where the ‘poles’ of the sphere were at the North and South and therefore hidden from the viewer, like the middle example in your image. I think it would probably be much easier to create this sort of thing in a 3D application – e.g. Blender – and then export it to a file format which can then be imported into the Affinity applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Inkscape? WireframeSphere.svg GarryP, lacerto, thomaso and 2 others 4 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Nice, thanks for pointing that out. If anyone is looking for it, it’s in menu “Extensions → Render → Wireframe Sphere…” (in Inkscape 1.2 anyway). David in Яuislip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 There are also a bunch of Python scripting examples for generating spheres and globes, where the more interesting ones are then for building earth globe animations ... https://github.com/makerportal/rotating_globe 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...
MiWe Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 OT: Why does the globe turn in the wrong direction 🤪 ? Inkscape is very handy as an 'addon' for AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 3 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: Inkscape? WireframeSphere.svg 1.29 kB · 0 downloads Perhaps a silly question, but, how export a Sphere from Inkscape (in vectorformat) that is editable in Affinity Designer/Publisher? If I export as SVG in Inkscape I can’t use Vector Flood Fill as an example in Affinity Designer - the Sphere is locked… Anyone who have a clue? Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 43 minutes ago, MiWe said: OT: Why does the globe turn in the wrong direction 🤪 ? Inkscape is very handy as an 'addon' for AD. But, on my Mac Inkscape is rather buggy and inconsistent… Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Using copy/paste works her on Win10 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 3 hours ago, MiWe said: OT: Why does the globe turn in the wrong direction 🤪 ? Since the author of the GitHub project did constructed his animated gif this way. One can usually adjust all those things (as animation rotation direction & speed etc.). 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...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 6 hours ago, MiWe said: Using copy/paste works her on Win10 ... Have you tested to edit the spheres in Win10 in Affinity Designer/Publisher (in vector format)? Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 20 hours ago, MiWe said: Using copy/paste works her on Win10 ... Doesn’t work to copy & paste in MacOS (Macbook Pro/Ventura)… Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 23 hours ago, David in Яuislip said: Inkscape? WireframeSphere.svg 1.29 kB · 2 downloads I repeat my question above: Perhaps a silly question, but, how export a Sphere from Inkscape (in vectorformat) that is editable in Affinity Designer/Publisher? If I export as SVG in Inkscape I can’t use Vector Flood Fill as an example in Affinity Designer - the Sphere is locked… Anyone who have a clue? Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Yes ... works ! You have to activate 'Copy elements as SVG' or somethng similar in preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 41 minutes ago, MiWe said: Yes ... works ! You have to activate 'Copy elements as SVG' or somethng similar in preferences. Can’t find such a preferences… Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 @AffinityMakesMeSmile Use the plain.svg format to export. With this you should be able to edit it in Designer 2 (2.1.x.yyyy if you want use the vector flood fill) AffinityMakesMeWonder 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 9 minutes ago, Komatös said: @AffinityMakesMeSmile Use the plain.svg format to export. With this you should be able to edit it in Designer 2 (2.1.x.yyyy if you want use the vector flood fill) Thanks alot!! Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 For using clipboard … With this option enable i can copy within Inkscape an past it in Designer. AffinityMakesMeWonder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinRW Posted April 19, 2023 Author Share Posted April 19, 2023 just want to thank you all for the help. Using the program inkscape gave me exactly what I wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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