n0b3dience Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I know there has been a few posts about snapping to intersections and I know that you plan to add it in a future update. I definitely want to see this implemented since it's an essential feature for my workflow, but there are a couple other snapping options I didn't see mentioned (I may have missed them, and if so, I apologize). First, and this one I consider almost as important as intersection snapping, I'd really love to see the ability to snap guides to nodes as you drag them. Unless I'm missing something (and I very well could be since I'm new to Affinity), guides can't be snapped to anything when you drag them. The guide manager window is an AWESOME feature that I was very happy to find, but, when I'm working, having to open up a new window and type in exact x and y coordinates for 2 guides really breaks up my rhythm and can seriously slow down my work if I need to create a bunch of guides. Having the ability to snap a guide to any node I mouseover while dragging would make things far easier and faster. Second, I'd really love to see the ability to snap to the midpoints of guide candidates. The ability to snap an object's midpoint to other snap points is great, I'd just love to see it taken one step further. If anything I mentioned here isn't clear, please, post a reply and I'd be happy to clear up any confusion. Also, let me say that in the short time that I've been using Affinity Designer I really enjoy it, and I've probably only scratched the surface of what's its capabilities are! Thank you all at Serif!!! Quote -John Nettles System: Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A USB 3.1 CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz, 4 Cores Memory: 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 RAM @ 2133MHz, G.Skill Ripjaws X Series GPU: AMD Radeon R9 390 System Hard Drive: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD Aux. Hard Drives: 2GB Western Digital Black HDD 1GB Western Digital Blue HDD OS: Windows 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 18, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 18, 2016 Guides can be snapped to things, just like any other object. There is only one issue that they don't snap when first created. That will be addressed one day. As for snapping to curve nodes - that will also be addressed one day. This has been covered in a couple of other threads. ISecond, I'd really love to see the ability to snap to the midpoints of guide candidates. The ability to snap an object's midpoint to other snap points is great, I'd just love to see it taken one step further. Not sure what you mean by this last bit - perhaps draw us a diagram? You can already snap to the mid points of candidate bounds, if you turn the option on. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateoN Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Oh, and I don't know if it should be another topic, but... I would LOVE to have handle snapping - that I could snap handle to another point or to curve or to grid ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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