pandawid Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Hello pals! Is there possibility to making perfect selections in such example? (1) I also would like to make another triangle inside with the same distance from corners. (2) How to do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Unfortunately Affinity designer doesn't have Offset paths... yet! Do you mean each line of the smaller triangle is the same distance from the edges of the larger one like this? If so you will have to do this the really messy way, or do it by eye if you don't need it to be super accurate. By eye is by far the easiest way and just requires you to duplicate the triangle and then scale it down using Shift + Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) and then dragging inwards. After that you can just nudge the triangle down until you are happy with the look and spacing. The messy way is to find the angles of the triangle, create blocks with a width of say 5mm (see example below), rotate them, to the slope of the triangles two sides, stretch them so the overshoot each other then to the interesting points to draw the triangles. Or Affinity can add Offset paths sharpish, like yesterday. pandawid 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 @firstdefence would setting the stroke to the inside not do the same? firstdefence 1 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 for the first question, turn on snapping to make the "selection" pandawid and firstdefence 2 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 2 hours ago, pandawid said: Is there possibility to making perfect selections in such example? (1) This is a bit convoluted but assuming your triangle is a single triangle shape with a thick stroke & its tips are pointy (like if the Miter Join method is used with a high enough setting to do that), then Layer > Expand Stroke will convert it to a Curves object with just 6 sharp nodes: Then you can use snapping as @dutchshader just suggested (beating me to it!) to create the second shape: firstdefence and pandawid 2 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...
firstdefence Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I wondered why that bit had been drawn in the original images lol, I thought they were going for a fancy multi-coloured border lol I suppose you could always do stroke to inside and then Layer > Expand Stroke and use Geometry: Divide Always Learning, I have new synaptic pathways forming in my ead, cheers people. Gif inspired by MC Dutchshader & The R-C-R Massiff dutchshader and pandawid 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 39 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Gif inspired by MC Dutchshader & The R-C-R Massiff I can’t help but wonder just how rapidly those epithets came to mind! firstdefence 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...
dutchshader Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 58 minutes ago, firstdefence said: MC Dutchshader & The R-C-R Massiff That woukd be some duo, mr. Know it all and mr. Know it better firstdefence and Cedge 2 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 @dutchshader Me and @Alfred could be the Beat Box Boyz giving it large in the rear hahahaha! Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 6 hours ago, dutchshader said: That woukd be some duo, mr. Know it all and mr. Know it better I have reached the stage of my life where a better title would be "Mr. Can't even remember everything he once knew." dutchshader 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...
dutchshader Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 My brain is still in perfect condition, i can't remember forgetting anything. R C-R 1 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandawid Posted March 27, 2018 Author Share Posted March 27, 2018 On 3/25/2018 at 1:35 PM, dutchshader said: for the first question, turn on snapping to make the "selection" I have snapping turned on but it doesn't snap inside corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 with this setting it should snap pandawid and firstdefence 2 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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