TJNickerson Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but a problem I frequently run into in Affinity Designer is the following: I have an object (such as a rectangle), I make other objects children of this object so they will mask to its bounds, then I find I need to resize the bounds of the parent object. I realize that the intended behavior for resizing a parent element is to resize all of the children elements as if it were any other group. However, I was wondering if there is any method/modifier keys that might let me resize the parent object without modifying the children, just to adjust the bounds. Hopefully this question makes sense... if it isn't possible (which I would not be surprised if it isn't, as it's a rather strange request), is there another easy technique of masking I could use? My usual method is to create parent objects as masks, then just place the objects I wish to mask as children. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Lock children.... check it out :) . TJNickerson, CartoonMike, joshishere and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJNickerson Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Lock children.... check it out :) You may be arrested for children abuse. :D joshishere 1 Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) On 5/9/2016 at 6:07 AM, JimmyJack said: Lock children.... check it out :) . Oh man, you saved my day! I was short of despairing, because I couldn't find a way to keep the child element untouched when editing the parent... Almost thought this was actually not possible in AD. This seems to illustrate a problem I tend to have repeatedly in AD: often it turns out that there actually IS a way to do certain things, but for doing so you have to look for a checkbox (or whatever) in some place you wouldn't have thought of. As this is directly related to the stacking and interaction of layers you'd naturally would have been looking there (Layers studio or Layers menu), wouldn't you? P.S.: It's not even mentioned in the Affinity Help on the topic for "Layer clipping"... Edited September 18, 2020 by Lorox Addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiagarajan Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Been using AD for a couple of years now. I used to unclip the children every time before I resize the parent. Frustrated, and searched. Got the solution. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_ Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Same! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Another option you have here, in Designer and Publisher only, is Constraints. You can use Constraints to tell the application how you want the child layers to behave – relative to the parent layer – when you resize the parent layer. See attached video for a quick example. 2022-08-02 09-38-26.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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