ravells Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 First post from a longtime Drawplus user. I've now taken my first step into Affinity ('To Affinity and Beyond! lol). At the moment I'm just trying to get a feel for where everything is and how it works by drawing simple objects. One of things I wanted to try was to see how I could replicate a single rectangle around a central point (e.g. like the ticks around a clock or compass). In Drawplus you can do this by moving the centre of rotation of the rectangle and using the Transform tool. It looks like in Affinity you can't move the centre of rotation and you can't make multiple copies using angular measurement. Is that right? How on earth would one create something like this in Affinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 You can use the "Power Duplicate" function for this. Go to the help and type "power" (without the quotes) into the search box. See the attached GIF for a simple example. Note that I also used the Show Rotation Centre function to let me move the rotation centre, and the circle is only there to give me something to snap the rotation centre to. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravells Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 Super! Thanks. So much to learn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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