Affinity Designer: Constraints Relative To Neighboring Elements

[Mike B 3]

Is it possible to create constraints that are relative to its neighbors (looking at the layers panel)? Or alternatively selecting two objects from the same level, and specifying constraints between them? 

 

Thanks!

[MEB 8,850]

Hi Mike B,
Welcome to Affinity Forums

No, the constraints are always applied relative to the object's container. There's no way to set constraints between two independent objects.

[Mike B 3]

Could this be a feature request? Pretty please!

[MEB 8,850]

Hi Mike,
I can move the thread to the Feature Requests section but it's up to the dev team to decide which (and when) feature requests are implemented.

Thread moved to the Feature Requests section.

[tobyspark 1]

+1 here.

 

 

I'm hitting this a lot working with text. Speech bubbles as below, but simpler things such as chaining start points to end points.

 

 

[MTimis 5]

+1 for Auto Layout, this type of relative constraints are crucial for web/UI design nowadays.

Figma does this well but AD is much superior overall, please listen to UI/UX designers requests.