Arranging artboards

[Rogue Seven]

Hi out there,

 

is there any possibility to arrange artboards in my document via a self defined grid?

 

Hope I explained my issue quite clear.

 

Rogue Seven

[R C-R]

The closest thing I have found to that is to select a number of artboards (either by clicking & shift-clicking on their names in the workspace, or in the Layers panel) & using the Arrange options to align or distribute them as if they were any other object.

 

Considering that artboards can be of different sizes or angular orientations, & even not all rectangular shapes, that is probably the best we can hope for.

[Rogue Seven]

This is not that awesome.

 

Could you give me a clue how I could arrange my wireframes like This? I'm talking about the correct spacing and so on.

[R C-R]

It is hard to tell from your jpg how many artboards the Affinity Designer document has or what is included in them.

 

Assuming 8 artboards, one for each of the iPhone mockups, none of the other text or arrowed lines included in them, & each of the same size, you could for example select the 4 of them shown in the first row & use the Arrange options to distribute them horizontally (using the "Space Horizontally" button) by a specific number of pixels (by unchecking the "Auto Distribute" option) & aligning their tops, centers, or bottoms vertically. Do the same thing for the other 4, using the same pixel spacing.

 

You could then temporarily group each of the two sets of 4, & do the same thing, reversing the horizontal & vertical alignment options to get the same vertical pixel spacing, but that probably would not be necessary or desirable -- using snapping to drag one selected set of 4 below the other would be much easier & more flexible.

 

Keep in mind that anything not in any of those 8 artboards won't be visible in an export -- an object can be in only one artboard -- so if you want to export the entire layout as above, you will need to do something to provide for that. One way is to create a new, 'super-sized' artboard large enough for all the others plus anything not in any of them, & nest the 8 artboards in that 9th artboard. Everything else can go directly in the 9th one.