Guide Tool

[af101]

It would be helpful if AD could have something like Griddify http://gelobi.org/griddify/

The current guide creation "tool" (View > Guides Manager) doesn't have any smart features.

Honestly I think creating grids / guides are so important to a lot of art / use cases that it should be implemented as a guide creation tool.

Once you pick the guide creation tool, you should either be able to click on an artboard, or highlight an area within an artboard and then be able to create some guides doing it the way griddify does.

[Aammppaa]

Griddify looks simple, intuitive and quick. It certainly has some features not easily reproducible in Affinity.

Have you fully explored the grid functionality within Affinity? Because some of what is demonstrated in Griddify can already be accomplished. For example non-uniform grids and grids with gutters.

Take a look at this example… 

Also, have you explored creating guides directly on the page? Guides dragged from the ruler with the selection tool will use your current snapping options, so can be easily and accurately be placed, even snapping to mid-points and gaps.

Also, @Ben has already previewed some improvements to the snapping system that are coming in the 1.7 update. See 

There certainly is room for improvement, but hopefully some of this helps your work flow.

[Ben]

I have plans to improve guides.  Had hoped it'd be for 1.7, but I've got quite a lot on my list of things to do.

 

[af101]

Thanks Aammppaa, grids definitey are a lot more powerful in AD.

What I like most about guides using GuideGuide is being able to select an area, put in a number, and have it carve out equal sections in that selection.

I would put just that ability alone as worthwhile, sort of an MVP (minimum viable product).

[Ben]

I'm sure we can come up with something....