Lafonia Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Hey, I'm new to the design world and I'm familiarizing with Affinity Designer, I think its great... Really enjoying my time using it... Now, what I'm doing to tech myself the functionality is to go around stock graphic websites and pick up random stuff and see If I can recreate it myself (open content). Today I wanted to (re)create a knob control... such as: And I just can't seem to figure out... obviously I started with a circle shape, added some Conical Fill with the Fill Tool and then zoned out trying to come up with "noise" to add to it? Any help would be appreciated. Scottiroky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hello Laconia and welcome to the Affinity forums :)Yes, in the past I have done (and still do sometimes if I find something interesting!) try and deconstruct and then reconstruct how packaging or logo designs may have originally been created.It is a great way to learn this stuff. As with most things “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” but I’ve attached here one possible method you might try. ;) Control Knob.afdesign jer, Wosven and Lafonia 3 Quote macOS 10.15.7 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lafonia Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 Thanks for that... looks awesome! :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 How did you get the lines on the outer dial to go round in a clock-like manner? A mini tutorial on that would be very helpful. Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 50 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: How did you get the lines on the outer dial to go round in a clock-like manner? A mini tutorial on that would be very helpful. On the desktop versions it’s pretty easy to use ‘Power Duplicate’ for this, but since there’s no keyboard shortcut on an iPad you’ll probably find it less tedious to start with the Cog Tool, convert to curves, adjust the hole radius to be as big as the inner radius and then divide so that you can discard the pieces you don’t want. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Think I’ll,pass on that then. Thanks anyway. Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 50 minutes ago, DesignMeister said: Think I’ll,pass on that then. Thanks anyway. I think you may be imagining it to be more difficult than it really is. Richard S. 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Hello DesignMeister, I attach a drawing I did last year, as @Alfred says, it's not too difficult. It's not a tutorial, but you can explore the layers to understand how to proceed. I don't pretend my method is the best but it worked! Then just apply a style to get the chrome effect. Vernier C9_2.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Thank you both! I will take a look and see if I can work out how you did it. Thank you - much appreciated. Alfred 1 Quote High-End Photographic Prints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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