Convert arbitrary vector lines to Guides

[hukl]

I had the pleasure of using Aldus and Macromedia Freehand back in the day. Many of its features I still miss in Illustrator, Affinity Designer and others. One of them is to be able to convert any vector line into a Guide. Straight lines, bezier curves, standard shapes, custom shapes - all had the option "Make Guide" which made it very convenient to construct geometrical designs - like a double point perspective projection. This was so easy to do with Freehand, draw a horizon line, the perspective points, set up the perspective lines, make guide and lock them in place.

The guides in Affinity across the board are so lackluster in comparison to how they worked in Freehand. Please please, pretty please make Affinity Designer more like the modern age Freehand and start with the power and flexibility of its Guides system.

Thanks :) 

[kadet]

This also will hugely help with designing icons in Designer. Lot of icons are created on some kind of grid that consist of common radii and angles which ensures good looking proportions and coherent looks across entire library. Some example of such grid (for iOS 12): https://www.behance.net/gallery/11367183/FREE-Template-iOS-12-Icon-Grid-EPS8-vector-illustration.

This is now hard to achieve because technically we can create shapes and use them as guides but stroke rendering makes it hard to use.

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, kadet said:

but stroke rendering makes it hard to use.

I don't understand this at all - can you explain it better?

[Seneca]

On 5/2/2023 at 9:05 AM, hukl said:

The guides in Affinity across the board are so lackluster in comparison to how they worked in Freehand. Please please, pretty please make Affinity Designer more like the modern age Freehand and start with the power and flexibility of its Guides system.

This has been discussed before. For more information please read the discussion above regarding the guides.