Matthias Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 A knife tool for splitting paths would come in handy. Cutting open paths is optionless. When cutting closed shapes in two parts (or more, depending on the form) there could be an user definable option whether the resulting paths will be open or closed. Matthias uiuxjohn, GRScott, Jowday and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I second some sort of knife tool and perhaps a vector eraser. Other than the boolean ways of slicing and dicing, it's nice to have a quick one click on a path workflow to trim and go... uiuxjohn 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 14, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 14, 2014 I second some sort of knife tool and perhaps a vector eraser. Other than the boolean ways of slicing and dicing, it's nice to have a quick one click on a path workflow to trim and go... Knife tools is on our roadmap. Thanks TonyB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesco Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 +1 For the vector eraser. And if you still have some spare time after implementing it, I think that a "simplify path" option would be also nice :-) Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10on12 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 The 'SImplify' is always a good option - but the more you work with paths the more simple you tend to make them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grzessnik Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Maybe can you add trim option to knife tool? I mean, ie. when two lines intersecting (or line and figure or figures), clicking them with Option can cut them and with Shift cut them and join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Dalebout Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Ah the knife. My favorite useless tool :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uiuxjohn Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Looking forward to the knife tool. How do you guys currently trim a path? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 24, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 24, 2014 Hi uiuxjohn, Welcome to Affinity Forums. You can create a node where you want to break the path and then go to Node Tool and press Break Curve (first icon) from the Action section in the context toolbar. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 You can create a node where you want to break the path and then go to Node Tool and press Break Curve (first icon) from the Action section in the context toolbar. Apologies if this is not the right place to post this but I could not find anything more relevant when searching for "Break Tool." Anyway, regarding that tool it needs: 1. A hotkey shortcut of some kind, or anything that eliminates the constant need to go to the toolbar to select it, like being an item on a contextual popup menu (or both). 2. Much more than that, it needs to work on multiple selected nodes. As it is, it either doesn't do anything when clicked with more than one node selected or just breaks the curve at one node. This would make it quick & easy to "unclose" closed curves at any desired nodes, something I seem to find myself needing to do often. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hoping for the Vector Eraser tool. Nothing else gives quite the same effect. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abszar Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 + 1 for the knife tool and vector eraser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 On 8/14/2014 at 4:52 PM, TonyB said: Knife tools is on our roadmap. Good (old) news! BTW In the meantime I have to use this Affinity knife tool - but it's quite monitor unfriendly. MikeW, CLC and R C-R 1 2 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 9 minutes ago, Jowday said: Good (old) news! BTW In the meantime I have to use this Affinity knife tool - but it's quite monitor unfriendly. Well, that certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase “computer hacking”!! Jowday 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...
MikeW Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 And don't forget the ability to split an object using a line (where the line weight doesn't affect the split/divide ala Xara products). I use a line as much as I use a knife tool...just for different purposes. Jowday and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 9 hours ago, MikeW said: And don't forget the ability to split an object using a line (where the line weight doesn't affect the split/divide ala Xara products). I use a line as much as I use a knife tool...just for different purposes. If you can use a line to split an object, why do you need a separate knife tool? 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...
MikeW Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 5 hours ago, Alfred said: If you can use a line to split an object, why do you need a separate knife tool? Knife is faster and can be freeform or constrained. A line can be constrained or a precise shape. Both are complimentary to the same task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 55 minutes ago, MikeW said: Knife is faster and can be freeform or constrained. A line can be constrained or a precise shape. So, a knife and a line can both be either freeform or constrained to a precise shape/path. I’ll take your word for it that a knife works faster! 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...
MikeW Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 A knife's and a line's angle constraints are similar. But when using a line requires more steps to slice an object whereas the knife is immediate. However its constraints are limited to certain angles of degree. But using a line, one can also set the angle precisely. Which to use depends on the slicing objective. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 16 hours ago, MikeW said: And don't forget the ability to split an object using a line (where the line weight doesn't affect the split/divide... It is almost possible to fake that with a workaround, but it takes way too many steps, exposes what is probably yet another bug in the Expand Stroke algorithm, & still leaves a tiny gap around the object where it is split. The workaround involves using the Pen Tool to make the line with a very narrow stroke width so that expanded, dividing it with the shape to be cut only leaves a gap along the cut line narrow enough that it could be ignored in some workflows. Almost line cut.afdesign (history included) shows what I mean. I only mention this to show that even with time consuming workarounds, we still can't get 'real' cut-line functionality. MikeW 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 minute ago, R C-R said: I only mention this to show that even with time consuming workarounds, we still can't get 'real' cut-line functionality Yep. It's a right pita using an expanded line, even if expanding worked correctly. R C-R and Jowday 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 4, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 4, 2019 23 minutes ago, R C-R said: It is almost possible to fake that with a workaround, but it takes way too many steps, exposes what is probably yet another bug in the Expand Stroke algorithm, & still leaves a tiny gap around the object where it is split. The workaround involves using the Pen Tool to make the line with a very narrow stroke width so that expanded, dividing it with the shape to be cut only leaves a gap along the cut line narrow enough that it could be ignored in some workflows. Almost line cut.afdesign (history included) shows what I mean. I only mention this to show that even with time consuming workarounds, we still can't get 'real' cut-line functionality. It's certainly possible but not in a direct way: line cut.afdesign Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 On 9/4/2019 at 5:58 PM, MEB said: It's certainly possible but not in a direct way: line cut.afdesign Inspecting the result is not great news: Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 @Jowday: I give up. What does Recent Profile Visitors have to do with any of this? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 8, 2019 On 9/7/2019 at 2:43 PM, Jowday said: Inspecting the result is not great news: Hi Jowday, I didn't check the nodes afterwards and yes I agree it's not a great result but that wasn't the point (both Expand Stroke and Boolean Operations issues were acknowledged previously). I was trying to demonstrate it's possible to use a line to precisely cut a shape without having to expand the line creating a small gap between the separated parts. Here's a file without the node's issues: line cut 2.afdesign. Thanks for checking. Jowday 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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