Johnny Chin Posted April 29, 2016 Posted April 29, 2016 Hey guys, I new to Affinity Designer and I wanted to make folding line for my origami ebook folding instruction, but after draw the line I don't see the arrow head available, how to make it? I googled it, but some post mentioned that this feature not available yet? how come? for such a pro app still not available? Please help and reply ASAP! Kaung Myat 1 Quote
Staff MEB Posted April 29, 2016 Staff Posted April 29, 2016 Hi Johnny Chin, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, it's not yet possible to add arrows to paths. This was requested several times and it's coming in a future version. Affinity Designer is still relatively new and there wasn't enough time yet to cover all features you may find in other software. There's a few workarounds - from using a brush to applying a specific pressure profile - that may help here until this is ready for release. Just do a search for arrows in the forum. There's also a arrow shape that lets you customise a few parameters. You can access it through the shapes tools (click the small arrow to reveal the popup menu). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
JURI Posted May 3, 2016 Posted May 3, 2016 Hi Johnny, look at here i am using this : 1 STEP - choose the Arrow Object 2 STEP - choose the shape of the start and end of this Arrow Quote
tomek Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 Yeah, this one is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I create a lot of diagrams and they usually have lots of arrow. Still, I believe and so I persist and keep waiting for the new version with this functionality implemented. In the mean time I have get dirty with Illustrator... the longer I use it the more dirty it appears. Go Team Affinity! May you have the energy and resources to crank out new versions so that we may liberate ourselves from the yoke of Illustrator's oppression ;-) P.S. Illustrator is not all bad though so do borrow some of the ideas like ability to make selections based on appearance and definitely implement re-definable and editable styles. If I had more sophisticated selection, arrows and editable styles I could switch to Designer 100%. Quote about.me
Staff MEB Posted May 9, 2016 Staff Posted May 9, 2016 Hi tomek, Glad you are enjoying it. All those features (arrows, selecting objects by attributes, text styles) and eventually re-definable styles are planed. It just a question of time and a little patience ^_^ Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Mr. K Posted May 14, 2016 Posted May 14, 2016 I hope arrowheads on paths happens soon. I purchased Designer about 6 months ago, and I haven't done anything with it yet. I can't (easily) make my technical drawings that require lines that point at objects. Quote
Oval Posted May 14, 2016 Posted May 14, 2016 I hope arrowheads on paths happens soon. I purchased Designer about 6 months ago, and I haven't done anything with it yet. I can't (easily) make my technical drawings that require lines that point at objects. FYI: :) ;) “It won't be before Christmas [2015], but we are aware of how urgently it’s wanted.” anon1 1 Quote
Mr. K Posted August 3, 2016 Posted August 3, 2016 I still have to use AI because I still have no arrowheads in AFD. It's sad. Quote
Oval Posted August 3, 2016 Posted August 3, 2016 I still have to use AI because I still have no arrowheads in AFD. It's sad. But it’s not “just a question of a little patience” because it is only on the “Common Feature Requests INDEX” and not on the feature roadmap. So it does make sense to wait and not to advertise AI or to bewail missing features in other apps. Have you tried the workaround with text path? How many different arrows do you use? Quote
Mr. K Posted August 3, 2016 Posted August 3, 2016 I place a lot of arrowhead path callouts. I can't use ADF. Please direct me to the workaround with text path and I'll see if that works. Quote
Oval Posted August 3, 2016 Posted August 3, 2016 … and I'll see if that works. Of course it works. We all know that you “can't use ADF”. You already wrote it some weeks ago. That’s why we rethought the unprofessional pressure profile heads. First workaround: Create / copy all your needed arrowheads in/to a font (or order it), duplicate your curve, type/paste the needed head character/glyph on the path, align left / right or use a tab stop. HTH Quote
Mr. K Posted August 4, 2016 Posted August 4, 2016 I think I need, and so do many others, Affinity to add arrowhead options to the ends of paths. That's the best solution. Quote
william7 Posted August 4, 2016 Posted August 4, 2016 I agree that this is needed. I ran into this issue last fall and I haven't used AD much since. Although with the UI work coming in 1.5 I will start using it again as UI and Tech diagrams are why I bought it. Now just waiting on Arrowheads. Quote
michaelrbuley Posted July 21, 2017 Posted July 21, 2017 Almost a year later, any update on this? I love AD, and I can't understand why this seemingly very basic tool is not available. Quote
Oval Posted July 24, 2017 Posted July 24, 2017 On 21. Juli 2017 at 9:28 PM, michaelrbuley said: Almost a year later Almost for three years on the road map, we would like that “little patience”. Quote
cekuhnen Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 dear lord - this is such an easy yet so useful function !!! Quote Claas Kuhnen Faculty Industrial Design - Chair Interior Design - Wayne State University Owner studioKuhnen - product:interface:design
walt.farrell Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 Any of you paying attention to the beta versions (1.7) of the Affinity applications will have noticed that they are now available for testing. firstdefence 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
firstdefence Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 9 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Any of you paying attention to the beta versions (1.7) of the Affinity applications will have noticed that they are now available for testing. Pretty neat too, apparently the code has been written in such a way as to give the option later on to have custom arrowheads, so you will not be limited to just the app styles, which is awesome. I love the ability in pretty much anything to be able to customise, have user presets etc. Arrowhead styles availabubble Tekl 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
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