Symmetry Tool: Autoplacing

[Christopher Orozco]

Hi, 👋

Thank you to those reading this as well as the Affinity Team.

It's a simple request.

Will it be possible to have a feature for the symmetry Tool to have a auto alignment button?

Per example, the symmetry lines can easily be locked into the center of whatever size document you have like the way guidelines or ruler lines lock in place when they are in the center of the document.

Or two buttons that cause it to be in symmetry horizontal/ vertical position without always having to manually adjust it?

 

Thank you for reading this and to the software coders behind this awesome program. I understand it can be stressful to getting so much requests.

Thank you again and may good fortunes be in your future.

Edited August 18, 2023 by Christopher Orozco
Better understanding and clarification

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Christopher Orozco

Assuming that you are talking about the Symmetry functionality of the Paint Brush Tool (and some other tools)…

Rather than having one or more single-purpose buttons to reset the symmetry centre axis point (the ‘origin’) to the centre of the document, would it be more useful if the centre axis point respected the user’s Snapping settings while being dragged?

By respecting the Snapping settings the user could easily move the centre axis point to anywhere that can be snapped to, including the document centre, rather than just the document centre.

This may be an existing, related, feature request: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/181968-affinity-photo-symmetry-doesnt-snap-to-the-center-of-the-canvas/