Lelax Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I develop patterns that obey some rules. I rely to illustrator's smart guides to get them the way I need. I set them to the angles needed and I'm ready to go. Is there such feature on Affinity? I'm sending some exemples to illustrate. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 12, 2016 Hi Lelax, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) You can set custom grids to help you build those types of patterns. Go to menu View ▸ Grid and Axis Manager... to set them up (screenshot below). Lelax 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lelax Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 Great! Thank you ps; vc é português ou só está em Lisboa? Só p saber se dá p falar a minha lingua. Sou carioca. Obrigado! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signguy Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 You should play around with the symbols feature in AD 1.5 beta. I think you will be pleasantly surprised by what you will come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lelax Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 Where is it? How do I use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signguy Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Where is it? How do I use it? Go to view/studio/symbols. Create some type of shape and then select the shape and click on create within the symbols window. You can then duplicate your shape any number of times, when you double click on one of your shapes within the artboard and rotate it, all duplicate copies of that shape will also rotate. Editing a single shape will change all shapes as well. I think you will find that you will be able to create some pretty unique patterns this way. At this point in time, you will just have to play with it in order to figure it out until more documentation is created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lan Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I would suggest to create for the future update guides like in Glyphs (program for type type design). Guides in Glyphs can have different angle. Grid and Axis Manager is ok, but it is useless when it comes to drawing letters. It just doesn't work when you need to drawn somme letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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