Stripes

[RangeRooney]

In DrawPlus, one of the shape options was stripe which made it easy to add even stripes to other objects. I haven’t been able to find something similar on Affinity Designer

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @RangeRooney.

There’s no direct Affinity equivalent to the ‘Quick Grill’ QuickShape in DrawPlus, but you can easily create an array of evenly-spaced rectangles with the help of the ‘Power Duplicate’ feature.

[RangeRooney]

Also, where would I be able to find the tool to create a line with arrow on the end. ------->

[Dan C]

Hi RangeRooney

Affinity Designer has an Arrow Tool as part of the Quickshapes flyout panel, it also has nodes for you to adjust the layout of the arrow shape.
"Arrow head line styles" are on the Affinity Designer feature roadmap!

[gdenby]

Hi, RangeRooney,

Consider what you can do by working w. the stroke pressure setting. The stroke can be saved as a style, and applied to other work as needed.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, gdenby said:

Consider what you can do by working w. the stroke pressure setting. The stroke can be saved as a style, and applied to other work as needed.

That works well for relatively short lines but it doesn't scale well for long ones because it becomes very difficult to get the nodes in the pressure window close enough to the ends to prevent creating distended arrowheads & tails.

[gdenby]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

That works well for relatively short lines but it doesn't scale well for long ones because it becomes very difficult to get the nodes in the pressure window close enough to the ends to prevent creating distended arrowheads & tails.

Yes. Its a work around. I haven't needed an arrow that was very long in most cases. Lacking a built in arrow, I wish the pressure graph was larger, and had more node control.

When I've tried for longer  arrow lines, I've broken the stroke so there is an arrow end style, a middle, and a tail style. A bit of fuss that I'd be happy to do without.

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, gdenby said:

Yes. Its a work around. I haven't needed an arrow that was very long in most cases. Lacking a built in arrow, I wish the pressure graph was larger, and had more node control.

When I've tried for longer  arrow lines, I've broken the stroke so there is an arrow end style, a middle, and a tail style. A bit of fuss that I'd be happy to do without.

Me too, on all counts. 

[Aammppaa]

1 hour ago, gdenby said:

I wish the pressure graph was larger, and had more node control.

+1 from me.

It should pop out as its own window / panel (as the Effects do if you want to see all the parameters).