Printing Gridlines

[Hill216]

I would like to be able to print a photo with grid lines. Is this possible with Affinity Photo or Designer? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Lee D]

Hi Hill216,

Welcome to the forums.

 

Grids and guides are only visible within the apps, when you go to print they don't show. You could use the Pen Tool to insert lines, using the grid as a guide, these would then print out.

[toltec]

Depending on what quality you need you could also use a screengrab program to snap the Affinity image with the gridlines showing. Not as good as Lee D's method but a damn site faster.

[Hill216]

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I'll give these ideas a try.

[blh]

Hi,

Even if Affinity Designer is clearly not a technical drawing tool, I use this app quite often to draw technical plans, and I think it could be very interesting to add an option "Print gridlines" either in the print panel (AD section) or in the document configuration panel. This would be a simple workaround to the missing feature "working at scale". Adding lines on the document to fake a grid as suggested is just a nonsense.

Hope this feature will be add in a future release.

Regards.

[Barbasol]

Just came here looking for this feature too. Too bad. Would like to print gridlines. Doing it manually will be a big pain. Maybe in the future...

Thanks.

[Tadhg]

In Serif's Drawplus there was a very useful grid in the shapes tool which you can superimpose over an image and print it out as part of the picture. It is a really useful feature and I can't quite understand how it was left out of Infinity Designer. It was certainly a key feature for a lot of what I do. Please add it to Designer.

[Asterjax]

I had this question too, since there was no help here, I just downloaded a grid with a transparent background and dropped it as a layer over my image, worked for me.

[TinaInNH]

I want this feature, too. Printing grid lines is useful for quilt designs.

[GarryP]

If you want to quickly add a grid to your document, and are using Windows 10, then you might like to try the application linked to by this post:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143089-free-vector-tools-for-windows-10-users/
It’s not the same as being able to print the native grid but it’s easy to use and has other features which may be useful.

[Ken Kopecky]

Add another vote for this feature.  I use Affinity Designer for drafting woodworking designs, and I need the grid when I print them!  I've gone down the line tool route and it's a pretty poor way of doing it.

 

Ken

 

[firstdefence]

What about creating grid assets, it may take a bit of work initially but once you have them you have grids that can be dragged in quickly.

[Sitepro]

YES ADD THIS FEATURE _ NEED TO PRINT GRID LINES !!!!

[Seizmic]

On 7/7/2017 at 3:44 AM, Lee D said:

Hi Hill216,

Welcome to the forums.

 

Grids and guides are only visible within the apps, when you go to print they don't show. You could use the Pen Tool to insert lines, using the grid as a guide, these would then print out.

this is what I just had to do. If someone puts in the feature request I'll vote.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Sitepro said:

YES ADD THIS FEATURE _ NEED TO PRINT GRID LINES !!!!

If you want this added, search the Feature request forum & add your request there. Here in Questions, it is unlikely that the developers will ever see it.

[Seizmic]

On 7/7/2017 at 3:44 AM, Lee D said:

Hi Hill216,

Welcome to the forums.

 

Grids and guides are only visible within the apps, when you go to print they don't show. You could use the Pen Tool to insert lines, using the grid as a guide, these would then print out.

This is what I just had to do. 

 

On 9/30/2021 at 7:53 AM, firstdefence said:

What about creating grid assets, it may take a bit of work initially but once you have them you have grids that can be dragged in quickly.

Please explain!

[R C-R]

16 minutes ago, Seizmic said:

Please explain!

I think what he means is create the grid lines with the Pen Tool, group them, & add the group as an asset.

[Alfred]

On 9/30/2021 at 12:53 PM, firstdefence said:

What about creating grid assets, it may take a bit of work initially but once you have them you have grids that can be dragged in quickly.

 

18 minutes ago, Seizmic said:

Please explain!

Please see Affinity Designer Help: Using assets.

[ricecrispies]

Here's (attached below) some grid lines I knocked together by tiling an SVG of a 10x10 grid that I found with a google image search. Feel free to improve on it.

My use case is that I need to plan where to put the furniture in the apartment I am going to move into in a couple of weeks, and also what furniture to buy. I simply wanted to put little rectangles representing the furniture at a scale of 1 grid space to 10cm on a scan of the floor plan of the apartment. I tried using both CAD software and free apartment planning software, but they were complete nightmares to work with. However, Affinity Designer turns out to be a very good tool for the job in every respect, except for not printing out the grid lines. Putting this SVG of grid lines second layer from back (just above the scan of the floor plan), and resizing it to approximately match the scale indicated on the drawing, adds those missing printable grid lines.

grid lines.svg

[dmmmd]

@ricecrispies - thanks very much for posting the grid!

[LeeL]

@ricecrispies – Thank you for the gridlines. My first experience with actually using .svg files - nice.

[pierre.vandwalle]

Just stumbled into that, seems that ability to print or to add the gridlines into the vector image itself would be very useful! Can we have that in Affinity Designer 2?

 

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, pierre.vandwalle said:

Can we have that in Affinity Designer 2?

Suggest you add that to the appropriate topic in the Feedback forum.

[j-mus]

you could create a dot / line and duplicate with an offset that is your grid spacing.

see the image, the dots have been created with 5mm spacing.

click the object. click the transform tab. press enter for the move/duplicate window to appear.

 

Edited January 16 by j-mus