Tazintosh Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Good morning, afternoon, evening (pick you fav.)! I'm working a —lot— with constraints. It's an incredible time saver. But not always… :( Lets say you've designed a complex element, using a lot of constraints, groups, subgroups, children, etc. All of this is perfectly working with constraints when you resize the element (wider or higher). But now, you need to change it's size for any of the many reasons that could exist. I really mean you have to —scale— up/down everything: texts, shapes, etc. At this moment, you —don't— want any of the constraints to apply. I've not found yet anything that would allow me to do this. Didn't found a shortcut to temporarily deactivate constraints. Didn't found an button to reset/remove —all— constraints of an element and —all— it's children. --> My only workaround (and I hate it), was to duplicate the element, and manually destroy all the work done (delete all groups, children, clips, set everything to one single level), and then apply a default constraint to all. My work is composed of a —huge— amount of elements, and the time lost to do the above is killing me :( Am I missing something? All the best ralphonz, Megnusin and BatteriesInc 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 13, 2017 Staff Share Posted April 13, 2017 Hi Tazintosh, You are not missing anything. There's no way to reset/remove all constraints applied to an element, other then doing it manually. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruus Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Perhaps using a temporary Macro? Make once and then use many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphonz Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hey guys, I'm new here. Pretty impressed with affinity designer, mainly got it because the constraints seemed so useful for responsive design. I think you can bypass the constraints using the additional handle to the bottom right of the the container - using that the whole thing scales proportionally disregarding what constraints are set Quote blueleafstudio.net Affinity Designer - Mac OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 14, 2017 Staff Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hi ralphonz, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) The additional handle is used to scale text frame objects (or groups/selections containing text frame objects) where you want to scale the text rather than reflowing it inside their frame. The regular corner handles will make the text reflow. This will not affect constraints no matter the handle you use. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazintosh Posted May 6, 2017 Author Share Posted May 6, 2017 Hi MEB, Are you guys planning to add such a feature? This impact greatly the productivity :( Johannes and mattaudio 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphonz Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Yeah i see that now I've had a little longer to get used to the program. I'd really like to see a way to temporarily disable constraints too, like Tazintosh. Any plans to implement this? As he says it would greatly improve productivity! Quote blueleafstudio.net Affinity Designer - Mac OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 22, 2017 Staff Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi Tazintosh, ralphonz, I've just filled an improvement request for this. It's now up to the dev team to decide if or when to implement it. @ralphonz Welcome to Affinity Forums :) matisso 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazintosh Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 Thanks a lot MEB, I really can't wait for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Jonen Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 5/22/2017 at 6:21 PM, MEB said: I've just filled an improvement request for this. It's now up to the dev team to decide if or when to implement it. Anything yet? mattaudio and Megnusin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james948 Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Came here to ask this. mattaudio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 I'm also here to ask for this. I ran into the issue that I accidentally enabled constraint groups in my project and now I can't get standard groups anymore. This is really annoying, unintuitive and demotivating. @Affinity Team Please give us the option to enable/disable creating constraint groups or let us change the group type within the RMB menu if a group is selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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