matt.baker Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 It would be useful if when hovering over line segments, it would allow snapping to the midpoint of the segment. midvok 1 Quote Highly recommended open source screen capture software (useful for bug reports). https://getsharex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Have you tried enabling "Snap to object bounding boxes" and "Include object bounding box mid-points" in the Snapping Manager? If I understand what you're asking for I think that will provide it. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.baker Posted October 1, 2018 Author Share Posted October 1, 2018 Thanks for the suggestion Walt. It's more for an easy option to snap to midpoints for the example below with a line segment that's not necessarily midway between a the whole shape's bounding box. Snapping candidates similar to the following would be amazing: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-50383F73-4F23-4F70-B4FC-52D5748D80AF-htm.html Crosses the into the realms of CAD features. walt.farrell 1 Quote Highly recommended open source screen capture software (useful for bug reports). https://getsharex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 So you mean the exact midpoint. I think that's a neat suggestion. If someone is making sprite work and create square tiles, then snapping nodes in the center would break it down into divisions. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.baker Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 12 hours ago, Bri-Toon said: So you mean the exact midpoint. It wouldn't be a midpoint if not exact Quote Highly recommended open source screen capture software (useful for bug reports). https://getsharex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JET_Affinity Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 But why only the midpoint of a segment? What if I want to snap to thirds of a segment? Or divide a segment into fifths. An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment. JET Bri-Toon, softsound, matt.baker and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.baker Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 1 hour ago, JET_Affinity said: An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment. I agree, that would be even better! A segment/divide operation that can be run on line segments or even whole paths. Quote Highly recommended open source screen capture software (useful for bug reports). https://getsharex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I second on that. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronhoff Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I have spent hours unsuccessfully trying to get it to snap to a midpoint of a line... and yes I am used to AutoCad where this is a given. Do we really have to look up the length of the line and calculate the midpoint?! midvok 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martineau Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Me too. Really need these basic CAD features to make this software useful to us here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarioSpeedwagon Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Came here to see if there was a way or a work around. I will be patient. Would be so so useful when drawing geometric designs. midvok 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midvok Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 So, is there any good workaround for this? I have only found to use the Align tool... insert a new node anywhere on the segment, select the node plus the 2 neighbor nodes, go to Align tool and select both Space horizontally and vertically. Then the new node should get aligned to the midpoint of the segment. Good thing is that it also works when you want to equally distribute multiple points on the segment. APW-Design 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 13 hours ago, midvok said: I have only found to use the Align tool... insert a new node anywhere on the segment, select the node plus the 2 neighbor nodes, go to Align tool and select both Space horizontally and vertically. Then the new node should get aligned to the midpoint of the segment. I think this is a pretty good workaround already. Not as fast as a simple snap to midpoint but doable. Thanks for posting this. d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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