Artem F Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Hello!How I can align children object relatively of parent? Is there way using only shortcuts or interface of Affinity Designer? demo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wviml8dns7frw3d/alignChildren.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem F Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 22, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 22, 2016 Hi fedorov, Enable snapping (Snap to object bounding boxes and Include bounding box mid points) then drag the object inside the container to the center. Smart guides will appear to help align it. Note that this may not work for editable text since the vertical center of the text object may not match the vertical center of the text itself. Only text converted to curves will align perfectly. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem F Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 I think it able to be useful to add feature "align to parent" into here:http://imgur.com/OeWaZB6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 22, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 22, 2016 Yes, i was thinking about that. I will pass this to the dev team for consideration. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem F Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Thanks, MEB. I think it can be useful to make shortcut for it. Alignment is one of the basic feature in making UI. And this shortcut can help to make it faster and without leave of keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 For the records I’m going to cross-link a feature request about this here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 🚩 Hey, I'd like to bump this. Been a while and its still difficult to quickly align objects to their parent container. Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 7, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 7, 2023 Hi @Rudantu Welcome to Affinity Forums Since the original post there was improvements to the app for this. Select the object (or objects) you want to align to the parent, make sure you have snapping enabled then toggle Show Alignment Handles in the contest toolbar (Move Tool still selected) finally drag the small solid blue arrows that appear over the child object and drag them over the edges of the parent's bounding box, midpoints, gaps or other objects) to align them. See video attached below for an example. You can learn more about it here: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ObjectControl/align.html?title=Aligning objects align_handles.mov Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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