Auto Distribute / Along an Axis or Trajectory

[BenG]

Hi I'm trying to auto distribute a group of squares along a 3d looking axis.

Is there a way to do this at all?

Or what is the best way to do this?.....

If I do this by eye/hand it might take a while

Cheers!

Ben

[firstdefence]

What are you trying to achieve?

I would have thought Power Duplicate would have been adequate and using the Transform Panel to get the required position and spacing. The problems start when you resize the shape as well as move its position, Affinity Designer increases the spacing as well as the size,  I see the increasing of the spacing as a fault.

For shapes that are at 45º you could try to rotate them 45º and distribute horizontally or vertically, or if you know the rotational degree, rotate it so that you can distribute from a horizontal or vertical plane to get an even spacing on shapes that have been resized, in reality this doesn't always give the expected result so again I think this is broken.

[BenG]

Hay thanks for the reply !

There is no rotation involved just I need the small-large squares to evenly distribute from from the center outwards...

almost there but they are not perfectly distributed.....

So would I use the power duplicate? which I'm not sure where or what it is?

Cheers

[BenG]

Awesome Cheers Man!

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-power-duplicate-in-affinity-designer--cms-25010

Found it!

[Alfred]

As @firstdefence said:

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The problems start when you resize the shape as well as move its position, Affinity Designer increases the spacing as well as the size

For a set of small to large squares, the spacing will increase as the size of the squares increases. There's no way to specify that you want an arithmetic progression instead of a geometric progression.

[firstdefence]

18 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

As @firstdefence said:

For a set of small to large squares, the spacing will increase as the size of the squares increases. There's no way to specify that you want an arithmetic progression instead of a geometric progression.

I hate comparing Affinity to Illustrator but Illustrator is a very good example of what Affinity need to be aiming higher than and that would be no mean feat. Illustrator has the Blend tool with the options of smooth colour, steps and distance, this makes this sort of work very easy, not only that but colouration, rotation and shape variation are all accommodated as well as real time adjustments of each shape, colour, rotation and position.

Affinity needs to up its game.

[Alfred]

1 minute ago, firstdefence said:

Illustrator has the Blend tool with the options of smooth colour, steps and distance

A Blend Tool is on the Affinity Designer roadmap. As a long-standing DrawPlus user, this is probably the tool that I miss most, since unlike some other missing tools there are no easy workarounds. (We didn’t get blends on a path, or control over the position and attributes profiles, until two versions before the last one, but at least we could specify the number of steps and the start/end colour and opacity.)

[BenG]

Thanks Guys, I use Affinity Designer by default now simply because I do better work with it.....these additions would definitely put them above the rest!

However sometimes it's a case o f using XY and doing things the old way with co-ordinates and by hand......

Adobe software imho is a bit laggy, slow and can't handle the design files I use with Affinity.

We all improve along with the software we use, so it's just one of those things..