Horseflesh Posted April 1 Posted April 1 The other day I did a 3d printing project which required a hexagonal mesh. Unfortunately, unless I am missing a trick, making this kind of array in Affinity Designer takes many steps. I eventually gave up and found an online tool to generate shapes like this as SVG, but the best tool I could find was still a pain to use. It generated line segments, so I had to set the stroke width, Expand them all and then Add them together. All the operations were very slow since the mesh was large. And, if you want to quickly change the element spacing and size because you don't like how it came out... Well, you can't. Start over. An ideal tool would give you a couple of sliders to change the size and spacing of the elements, and produce a vector object that did not require additional processing like Expanding and Adding. It would let you work with a variety of shapes. Is anyone aware of a tool like this? Quote
NotMyFault Posted April 1 Posted April 1 Move/enter is your friend. Create one hexagon, hit enter, type in spacing parameters. alternatively, use „quick grid“. activate grid in mode „triangular“. Adjust spacing to taste (and get stuck by max 256px bug) Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
Horseflesh Posted April 1 Author Posted April 1 I know Move and it's still awfully slow if you are experimenting with how different spacing looks. Quick Grid is news to me, thanks. That should cover some common needs. https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/objectGrids.html&title=Quick Grids Well OK the help page doesn't actually tell you where it is, but I will find it... Quote
NotMyFault Posted April 1 Posted April 1 11 minutes ago, Horseflesh said: Well OK the help page doesn't actually tell you where it is, but I will find it... It’s just hit arrow keys. Horseflesh 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
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