multivir Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Hi, I just bought Affinity Designer today and tried to do what in Illustrator would be an offset path. Googling for a solution I found, that this function is not available in AD. To be honest, I'm not sure if I really understand the workarounds when you want to grow an object, but in my case, I have a vector shape that I want to make smaller and have the smaller vector shape have the same distance from the outline of the bigger vector at all points, so I can't just create a copy, resize it and center it in the larger vector object. Is there a way to do this in Affinity Designer? Thanks, M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 8, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 8, 2016 Hi multivir, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) There isn't an offset/outline tool in Designer but we do intend to add one at some point. To create an offset from a shape, use a stroke (the stroke width) as a way to create an inner version of the shape (the width value will define the offset), then go to menu Layer ▸ Expand Stroke to create a shape from it. Finally select the expanded stroke shape and go to menu Layer ▸ Geometry ▸ Divide to separate the paths that compose it. The inner one is the shape you want. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose77 Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 hello, How i do concentric shapes???? I,m missing something, scale doesn,t work??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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