Reset Bounding Box

[Przemek]

1 hour ago, MEB said:

Hi @Przemek,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thank you for your feedback. I will pass it to Ben for consideration.
Meanwhile, I don't know if you are already aware, but if you select each rotated object and press Add (boolean operation) - to add it to itself - it resets/fixes the rotation issue (you can set up a shortcut for this to speed it up a little bit). You can also select multiple rotated objects (those that use the same fill/attributes) and Add them all together than Divide (boolean operation), to fix the issue to more than one object at once (you can do it for objects with different fills but they will end up all with the same fill after the Add operation so you have to set the fills again).

Hi @MEB,

Thanks for the welcome and your answer+hint. I am aware of that. The only thing is that this way the object is turned to curves. I once did it when I was trying out a curved corners bar chart. As you might expect all my rounded corners got baked and once the Client and I rejected this idea, I had to redo the entire chart from scratch. At that stage I didn't have charts to copy so I already spend some time designing the rejected chart.

Looking forward to the latest update and keeping my fingers crossed about the Base Box overwrite  

[AllAppsUser]

Come to this late, not digested the whole thread so apologies. This stumped me because of the way it displayed and I couldn't see the rotation thingie (what are they called?).

As someone else has already requested above, I'd like to add to the request. That the element retains a memory of which it has been last set to. The default Base Box OR the Regular Bounds. Thank you.

If I set this element to the Regular Box, then deselect it.
Uh-ho, need to tweak it a bit more..
Doh, not: 1) select > 2) rotate...
But: 1) select > 2) toggle (sorry 'cycle') selection box > 3) now rotate...
Gets really tedious really quickly when trying to make fine aesthetic adjustments... which is kind of my job 😋 .

And when would I ever want to use Base Box with this element? (Yes, I know I created this by using the node tool on it at some point - this illustrates why people are requesting the ability to reset the Base Box)

(Publisher btw, though it might look like the kind of work you'd do in Designer).

Hope this helps make things really-really clear.

 

As others have said, the more I use these app the more I think they're a great start. Some fundamentals seem weird, but hopeful they'll be sorted in time. It's all workable right now.

[waveman777]

Working with bounding box in Affinity Designer is really a nightmare. I cannot accomplish a very simple and basic task... I just cannot. I don't even have the energy to write a post about it, please just watch the video instead and tell me how can I reset the bounding box in one of the elements...

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, waveman777 said:

and tell me how can I reset the bounding box in one of the elements...

If you don't mind it being converted to Curves, select it and click the Add button on the Toolbar, or Layer > Geometry > Add from the menu.

[waveman777]

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

If you don't mind it being converted to Curves, select it and click the Add button on the Toolbar, or Layer > Geometry > Add from the menu.

That worked! Thank you Walt! 

I only don't quite understand why some random objects have different bounding boxes then the others and what causes it... Any thoughts? Cheers!

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, waveman777 said:

I only don't quite understand why some random objects have different bounding boxes then the others and what causes it... Any thoughts?

You're welcome.

Without watching you create that document, sorry, no ideas on that.

[Yannig]

+1 For a permanent reset to "Regular bounds".

"Regular bounds" should be default, not the "Base box", it's just not intuitive.

[loukash]

To reset a bounding box "permanently" yet non-destructively, group the object with itself:

 

  Edited January 10, 2023 by loukash
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[stephen.p]

On 1/22/2021 at 9:04 PM, MEB said:

if you select each rotated object and press Add (boolean operation) - to add it to itself - it resets/fixes the rotation issue

Awesome tip. I was exporting rotated objects to SVG and importing them into a web app which added its own coordinate system so resetting the bounding box made my life much easier.

[ra.skill]

+1 For reset bounding box

[jAffinitySerif]

+1 for a simple, reliable way to reset bounding box in Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, please. None of the suggested workarounds above seem to work, not even the one suggested by an Affinity moderator. Thank you.

[Garret]

Layer > Geometry > Add works for some individual shapes but what if I have hundreds of shapes? And it never works for simple lines, what to do then?

Edited May 14, 2022 by Garret

[Alfred]

57 minutes ago, Garret said:

Layer > Geometry > Add works for some individual shapes but what if I have hundreds of shapes? And it never works for simple lines, what to do then?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Garret.

As long as they’re non-overlapping, you can select multiple shapes and Boolean ‘Add’ them to reset the rotation, and then ‘Divide’ to break them up into separate shapes. As for ‘simple’ lines, it works if they’re straight (but not otherwise, as far as I can see).

[amoraleite]

+1 reset bound box. 😔

[Brian Chan]

+1 for resetting the "Base Box" permanently. When I am selecting many groups, the visual clutter of all the oversize base boxes makes work quite difficult and annoying. Please see the attached screenshot. The groups consist only of simple line segments. I don't know why the base boxes remain so big.

I really hoped this would have been fixed in version 2!

Edited December 16, 2022 by Brian Chan
attached image, changed description

[debraspicher]

+1. For same reason as user above stated. Messy boxes, adds clutter, generally a hindrance, etc

[Cristian Dragos]

+3 this! Come one Serif, this has been asked for such a long time.

[Tazintosh]

As reminder, you can use this workaround (when possible):

• Select the shape you want to reset the bounding box of (only itself).
• Menu Layer > Geometry > Add
• You'll get a reseted bounding box (at the price of the shape being converted as curve).

[Brian Chan]

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, my geometries (origami diagrams) need to have polygons overlaid with separate groups of floating line segments and the "Add" function messes up things rather than helping. 

[balqan]

I was hoping that this will be fixed in v.2 but no 😒. The Menu Layer > Geometry > Add hack is just ridiculous when there are many objects that are grouped together... 

[MannyL]

You guys are shipping the version 2.1 and you are still not shipping a simple feature that is super requested to reset a simple bounding box? Come on Serif crew!

[Maxdanger]

+1 big time!

On 2/25/2023 at 8:27 PM, Brian Chan said:

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, my geometries (origami diagrams) need to have polygons overlaid with separate groups of floating line segments and the "Add" function messes up things rather than helping. 

Likewise - I am using Designer for Origami diagrams / designs and I'm running into this annoying issue. Ungrouped, all my curves fit into the bounding box that you would expect, but when grouped the bounding box expands and I have no way of resetting the group's bounding box. I don't want to have 160 objects ungrouped just to get around a simple bounding box issue.