kjs Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Is there a way to figure out the area of a shape? PLEASE SAY YES!! Peter Sinclair 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Officially, as in, a specific tool to work out shape area's NO but if you know the dimensions of a simple or irregular shape: https://www.mathsisfun.com/area.html Unofficially, If you want to quickly estimate the area on simple shapes and irregular shapes you could use the Grid: View > Show Grid or ⌘' on the Keyboard. Sizing the Grid to a known value i.e. 10mm x 10mm gives you a starting point, you do that by Opening the Grid and Axis Manager: Show > Grid and Axis Manager or ⌃ ⌥ R Once you have sized your grid you can now count up the whole grid squares and then the approximate half grid squares to give you an approximate area. If on the other hand you want to try and work out the area of a Jelly shape, you can do this with the grid approximation but if you need an accurate figure you need to get jiggy with some Calculus and use something like Greens Theorem or as a slightly more accurate estimator; Picks Theorem. Peter Sinclair 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...
Alfred Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 2 hours ago, firstdefence said: If on the other hand you want to try and work out the area of a Jelly shape, you can do this with the grid approximation but if you need an accurate figure you need to get jiggy with some Calculus and use something like Greens Theorem or as a slightly more accurate estimator; Picks Theorem. If I wanted to know the area of a shape like that, I would export to PDF and use the area tool in PDF-XChange Editor. Unfortunately, the program is only available for Windows. 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...
John Rostron Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 If you can export the vector co-ordinates to a text format such as PDF or SVG, then you can calculate the area from this data. You would neeed to edit the svg/pdf file to extract the coordinates into a csv file. You can then load this into excel or an equivalent to do the sums. If you wish to pursue this route, I can supply the necessary formulas for you. John firstdefence 1 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 3 hours ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: If I wanted to know the area of a shape like that, I would export to PDF and use the area tool in PDF-XChange Editor. Unfortunately, the program is only available for Windows. Ooh now I'm intrigued.. 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 May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 18 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Ooh now I'm intrigued.. No need to make do with just being intrigued! The free version includes the measurement tools, so you can simply log in to your Windoze laptop, go to https://www.tracker-software.com and download it if you want to have a play. 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...
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