JMWL Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Hi - Im new to affinity designer (used to illustrator on the desktop), so just getting to grips with how it works. I can’t find any information, including in the tutorials, about the context menu toolbars for the various vector tools (specifically the move and node tools). There is a grid of four symbols on the right hand side of the context toolbar for each of these that don’t have a name or any explanation, can anyone help me with these? I’ve got a feeling they’ll help with precision when drawing and working with vector shapes, but can’t seem to work out what most of them mean??? I’ve worked out that one of them moves the centre point of the shape. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! vervre and Alice S 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 2 hours ago, JMWL said: Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! Move Tool General controls Top Left: Reset Rotation Box. If you rotate an object, this resets the selection box to the page. Top Right: Set Rotation Target. Rotate around a different place other than the image centre. Bottom left: Lock Children. Locks the image inside the shape, etc. Bottom Right: Hide Selection Box while dragging. Hides the box so you can see what you are doing when aligning. Node Tool (and Pen Tool) These control snapping of nodes as you draw. Top Left: Align to nodes of selected curves Top Right: Snap to geometry of selected curves (currently selected) Bottom left: Snap off-curve handles Bottom Right: Snap all selected nodes when dragging Align to nodes of selected curves Snaps the node to another node on the path or shape and applies to drawing or editing (Node Tool). As the node aligns, Designer displays red horizonal and green vertical alignment guides. Snap to geometry of selected curves Snaps nodes to a path outline or nodes, indicated by a yellow node appearing over the path. If you are using the Node Tool, select another path and it will snap to that. A yellow node and outer line will appear. Snap off-curve handles Move a node handle with the Node Tool and this will align the node handle to the next (adjacent) node on the path. The handle will turn purple when it is aligned, and a purple line displayed between the handle and node. Snap all selected nodes when dragging With the Node Tool selected, if you select multiple nodes by dragging a marquee around them and move the selected nodes together, this option causes all the selected nodes to snap. Otherwise, although all the selected nodes will move, only the node you drag will snap. Alice S, vervre and Austiemo 3 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 @JMWL This may help too. vervre 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMWL Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Fantastic, thank you both for the replies, very helpful. DM1, this pdf is amazing, must've taken you ages! looks like it'll be my Bible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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