Drawing problem.

[JackOats]

Hi All,

Haven't used Affinity for a while.

Can't seem to simply draw a shape.

When I select or drag the Elipse tool onto the work area it just disappears in a puff of smoke.

Have been playing help videos & trying all sorts of things for 2 hours now but I just can't get past this stage.

Any help would be gratefully received. Thank you.

[Pšenda]

42 minutes ago, JackOats said:

When I select or drag the Elipse tool onto the work area it just disappears in a puff of smoke.

Screenshot, video?

 

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, JackOats said:

When I select or drag the Elipse tool onto the work area it just disappears in a puff of smoke.

It sounds like you have managed to enter the Customize Tools... mode on the View menu, in which you should see a window full of tool icons to the right of the Tools panel, & are trying to drag the Ellipse Tool off of that panel. That is to be expected because that is how customizing that panel works. See https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/customizingToolsPanel.html for more about that, & how to add or remove tools from the panel.

Regardless, note that to use a tool, you just click on it in the panel (not drag it) to activate it.

 

[JackOats]

@R C-R Ahh! Excellent! That did the trick. Thank you very much. Phew!

[JackOats]

@Pšenda Problem solved. Thanks very much for your message & the link. Will definitely watch & learn!