AD2.2 QS Circles

[jackamus]

It would be useful that when changing the size of a QS ellipse (circle) that when it changes size it is still coincident with the original major and minor axes.

At the moment before changing the size of a circle I need to place a vertical and horizontal guide positioned coincident with the centre of the circle and then changing the size. The new circle jumps to a new position and then I drag it to centre on the guides.

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https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Workspace/shortcuts.html?category=operations

[jackamus]

Thank you - an amazing list which I am already familiar with but how does this help me? What should I be looking for?

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[jackamus]

There is something wrong with these shortcuts!

Ctrl-drag dfoes not resize from centre and it can rotate as well.

Shift-drag does not maintain the original shape i.e. a circle can become an ellipse.

If I want to resize a circle by dragging whilst maintaining its centre, I use alt-cmd whilst dragging a corner.

None of these solve my original question.

[walt.farrell]

47 minutes ago, jackamus said:

Ctrl-drag dfoes not resize from centre and it can rotate as well.

The shortcuts from that screenshot are for a Windows system. On a Mac, you would probably use Cmd, but you should check the list for yourself.

49 minutes ago, jackamus said:

Shift-drag does not maintain the original shape i.e. a circle can become an ellipse.

The behavior of Shift depends on your application Settings, in Tools, for "Move Tool Aspect Constrain Ratio". The Help probably shows it for the default setting, but your setting may be different.  The Status Bar should show you what's applicable.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, jackamus said:

that when it changes size it is still coincident with the original major and minor axes.

[jackamus]

6 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Thanks guys for trying to help. All these short cuts are known to me.

My problem is how do I get a shape to maintain its aspect ration around its centre if I use Transform to insert a new size?

[PaulEC]

[jackamus]

At last a result! Thanks Paul. I just tried and it works.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, jackamus said:

My problem is how do I get a shape to maintain its aspect ration around its centre if I use Transform to insert a new size?

If your problem was with Transform, you'd have gotten an answer faster if you mentioned that originally

[jackamus]

I did talk about changing the size! What other way could I have done it precisely?

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, jackamus said:

I did talk about changing the size! What other way could I have done it precisely?

You also didn't say "precisely". All you said was changing the size. 

There are two ways to change the size, and all of us seem to have responded in the context of using the Move Tool to resize by dragging.

[jackamus]

OK Walt. What might have been obvious to me clearly wasn't to the rest of you! The missing word was 'precise'. I assumed if you wanted change the size you would use Transform.

 

 

[Pšenda]

8 minutes ago, jackamus said:

The missing word was 'precise'.

If you use Snapping, you can make the change "precisely" with the Move tool. In some cases, even more precisely than using the Transform panel.

If you were resizing using the transform panel, why was the position of the circle changing? ("The new circle jumps to a new position")

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, jackamus said:

I assumed if you wanted change the size you would use Transform.

For most people for most size changes, I would guess the Move Tool and dragging an object handle is more common.

31 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

If you were resizing using the transform panel, why was the position of the circle changing? ("The new circle jumps to a new position")

Probably the transformation center was not selected.

[Pšenda]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Probably the transformation center was not selected.

If the center anchor was selected - then the position would jumped. But since the OP apparently did not understand the meaning of this shape, I assume that he did not even use it, and therefore that the anchor was set to the default state (top left) - that is, the position does not change when the size is changed.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

that is, the position does not change when the size is changed.

With the default upper-left anchor set, the position does change. The pink ellipse is the original size; the gray one is enlarged. The object has moved visually down and to the right from the original.

[jackamus]

14 hours ago, Pšenda said:

If the center anchor was selected - then the position would jumped. But since the OP apparently did not understand the meaning of this shape, I assume that he did not even use it, and therefore that the anchor was set to the default state (top left) - that is, the position does not change when the size is changed.

 

14 hours ago, Pšenda said:

 

Spot-on. That is exactly what happened now I am a lot wiser.

[Pšenda]

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

The object has moved visually down and to the right from the original.

Visually yes, but not from the point of view of the Transform panel, which is what we are talking about here.