msuhr Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I'm new to affinity designer and couldn't help noticing there is no scale tool. Yes, you can scale an objetc from its corners and all that but if I want a part of a shape to be scaled down I cant. So a simple shape like the one I'm attaching is much harder to achieve in affinity. The stroke wont round one of the edges and as there is no scale tool I can't select the 3 points of the shape to scale down and simulate a stroke with pressure. LilleG and Edo75 2 Quote Instagram | Dribbble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 22, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 22, 2016 Hi msuhr, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) We already have some requests for this. The ability to scale/rotate nodes should be implemented at some point in a future version/update. Edo75 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msuhr Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 Hi msuhr, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) We already have some requests for this. The ability to scale/rotate nodes should be implemented at some point in a future version/update. Really glad to hear since I use that feature a lot!! Quote Instagram | Dribbble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edo75 Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 +1 for this one as align feature on nodes, for the time being Affinity falls short behind Illustrator because of those basic features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Since version 1.6, you can already select particular nodes and use the Transform panel to control them. There is just one problem. The transform applies only to the vector points (on-path control points), not to the Bézier handle control points (off-path control points). So scalings will distort the shape, rather than preserve it. I am not quite sure why on-path control points are systematically privileged over the off-path control points (just have a look at snapping and nudging as further examples). A cubic Bézier curve is no less defined by the off-path points than it is by the on-path points, so maybe it would make sense to put these a little more on a par in the next version … Hope that makes sense … Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMo Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 This needs to be a thing ASAP in my opinion. A scale/rotate/align tool is a VERY basic thing and I'm very surprised it's missing from such a beautifully designed package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 8, 2017 Staff Share Posted December 8, 2017 Hi MikeMo, Welcome to Affinity Forums Version 1.6 has introduced a few improvements here. It's now possible to scale/rotate nodes as well. What are you trying to do? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMo Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Hi MEB, thanks for the greeting. How do you scale/rotate nodes? I had a look after installing 1.6.2.97 for a Transform, or FreeTransform tool but couldn't find. What I'm trying to do is select a few nodes from a shape and bring up a free transform tool similar to Photoshop/Illustrator and scale uniformly/non-uniformly. The Photoshop free transform tool also allows you to move the pivot of the transform and any scaling will now be centred around that new point. I just noticed that there is another thread with lots of posts discussing this topic here.. Free transform selected nodes within a shape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMo Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 This has still not been implemented. Very basic & essential tool missing from such an otherwise beautifully conceived application. SerpentEagle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpidey Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Another vote for this essential feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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