Uncle Mez Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hello Everyone/admins/staffs. i was wondering about this precise thing: is there a way to simplify path or have kind of what the smooth tool on Ai does ? i mean, a design is always better when we have less node used for the drawing. as i said, maybe it's there and i just don't see it or maybe there is another way to do it with other tools or functions and here too i may not be aware of it. Your lights and inputs will be of great help here. Thanks Kal, Imonobor, Aammppaa and 1 other 4 Quote Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 This has been asked before, but there is no specific smooth/simplify tool at the moment. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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...
lexislav Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Absence of this feature keeps my Illustrator CS6 still alive :-) Simplify curve is quite important. I can only hope that Serif's developers know that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 3 hours ago, lexislav said: Absence of this feature keeps my Illustrator CS6 still alive :-) Simplify curve is quite important. I can only hope that Serif's developers know that too. I think they have a long list of features to add lol! but I think they want to up the game and not make a clone of illustrator but give Affinity users something better and more feature rich. I'm sure they have something in the pipeline but when that will appear is anybodies guess. Stick with it though I'm sure there will be many improvements and additional features in the 1.7 update. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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...
MacMayhem Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Brand new to Affinity. I love it... But..... Not the Adobe killer I thought it was. No Simplify Path No Free Transform Tool No Select Same Fill Color I immediately had to return to illustrator for all of these. Bummer! Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean enness Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Totally Agree I bought Affinity but I am not using it because Affinity does not have a SMOOTH TOOL! So very very Frustrating! I am back to using Adobe Illustrator I have seen numerous complaints from, artists, designers re no SMOOTH TOOL in Affinity. Therefore PLEASE Affinity take note and add the SMOOTH TOOL!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jChris Levet Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 3 years later, is this gap filled ? Is there a tool to decimate points from imported curve ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 5 hours ago, jChris Levet said: 3 years later, is this gap filled ? Is there a tool to decimate points from imported curve ? For a long time there has been a "Smooth Curve" option in the "Action" group on the Context Toolbar when the Pen or Node tool is active, but it still works very poorly, if at all. 😕 Kal 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 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...
Kal Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 On 11/3/2021 at 3:25 AM, R C-R said: For a long time there has been a "Smooth Curve" option in the "Action" group on the Context Toolbar when the Pen or Node tool is active, but it still works very poorly, if at all. 😕 Definitely better than nothing though. For what I needed today, it actually worked quite well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eobet Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 On 11/3/2022 at 2:13 AM, Kal said: Definitely better than nothing though. For what I needed today, it actually worked quite well. Not for me, completely ruined a drawing that has some very obvious dire need of simplification: Going to have to look at Illustrator or Inkscape again I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muganga Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I hadn't realised the need for this until yesterday. Then it really struck home. It would make a huge difference to be able to smooth rough curves. Took me about 2 hours to do what I needed. I just wanted a rough but incredibly detailed image to smooth out a bit and have far fewer points. Tried the smoth gizmo on the context bar, but it only did about a third of the job, still had to do a lot of fiddling. Please can we have something more powerful and in particulat more progressive... rough, smoother, very smooth...Keeping the overall shape, but losing the sharp edges and point density as it goes. bobwal and dehskins 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT AFD Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Just purchased the whole suite and really frustrated at the lack of this basic feature. This is an everyday tool for Illustrator users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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