Guide / rulers easier for assisted drawing

[affi.usr]

What missing?

Currenty when I use guide creation is not very intuitive how make drawing like isometrics when I use only lines in only few specific angles. Using snapping not make it is too easy. For iPad Procreate assisted drawing is the best win. I like how it is done in Paintstorm Studio. To ilustrated my point from Painstrom Studio official page:

Official Paintstorm Studio rulers video

As we can see we have lines one by one on specific, the same angle without problem. Extra line from guide make it easier to follow without showing all grids lines. Nice feature is drawing guide. It make super easy create rounded shapes. I can't find how make the same easier using Affinity Designer.

Paintstorm Studio feature the most time work without hustle, but using Wacom tablet on first try I make few mistakes (lines drawn on wrong angles).

Procreate assisted drawing example

Around 2:00 we see how it looks like in practise. It is very easy to draw lines which align to guide. It is very smooth and pleasure experience. It makes very complicated isometric drawing easy. This feature shine here. Lines are perfect. Sometimes only Apple Pen is not correctly recognized and line is wrong drawn. The most times it works fine.

At this two mentioned above app it maybe potential problems related to how I grap pencil, but ever with that is easier to makes this two drawing easier than in Affinity Designer. I can't find how I can make the same easy and without too much effort.

How it should be done

• adding option show drawing candidate line wider throught large part of screen
• easy create guide from any basic shape like rectangle, star, circle and easy way drawing with scaling (smaller or bigger than original shape), drawing using only part of shape like parts of lines (shorter line than in original but the same angle)
• adding any basic shape possibility change dimensions and size of line which is build of starting from circle as it is done in Paintstorm Studio
• adding way make pen tool behave like any line drawine using axis and grid with axis but how it Shift is still pressed for each line drawen and pen setting to line mode
• adding the same behavior to pencil tool
• adding to candidated red and green line gray (?) line to show which line is used as guide with option easy on/off this behaviour using command line

Why I think is important?

• adding way of creating isometric drawing and drawing especially needed specific lines angle repeated in a lot of places
• make easy very specific drawing which use only few angles
• simplify isometric like drawing and adding new tool to visualize drawn line before was drawn

[2ddpainter]

Nothing against your suggestion.

When I read your post I remembered the Ruler Tool "Lazy Nezumi" (PC only)
which is a tool that offers various rulers and works with almost every
graphics program. It may be helpful.

Here a Link
https://lazynezumi.com/rulers

[affi.usr]

I have to check compatibility with Affinity as it is available as Photoshop plugin. When I see on this video what it can:

Lazynezumi Rulers in action

It is more what I want and it is the best reference how Affinity can improve it rulers and guide design. It is one of the most sophisticated system and for Affinity I will be only match colors to avoid distractions from different style and implemented without much changes. I see in this huge potential for a lot of customers on all levels.

[2ddpainter]

@affi.usr

To be not misleaded, this is not a Plugin.

So a graphic program does not have to be compatible with Photoshop plugins
It is a standalone program that you start separately. It then captures
the canvas of the program you are using it with and direct all
commands to it.