Affinity Designer - "select similar"

[4personnen 24]

Hello, and sorry if the question have been asked before, but I would like to know if there is a function that would select automatically the "similar objects" according to stroke colour, fill colour, and other parameters.

I used this function before in illustrator (Unfortunately, I no longer have it to check) and it was very useful, particularly when you have tones of layers.

One of the top reason I may use it is when I am trying to select die-cuts marks on small objects (think small stickers scattered on a big sheet of paper and needed to be cut with let's a say a plotter)

We use the same artwork to print the packaging and in that case, I need to get rid of the die-cut marks (they are all with the same stroke colour). The way I was doing in Illustrator was to select one die cut and "auto-select" all the others based on the reference selected stroke colour.

 

If it doesn't exist yet, I'd raise my voice for a feature request

 

Thanks!

[Dan C 687]

Hi 4personnen

This is a feature that hasn't yet been implemented into Designer but our devs do plan on adding it. In the meantime I'll move this thread to our Feature Requests section

[4personnen 24]

Thanks Dan, this is very much appreciated

[matisso 20]

+1

Definitely a must.

[midiankai 2]

this has been discussed for more than half a year and still waiting for this key feature!

[Fixx 587]

no, from 2014... 

 

[Alfred 4,493]

6 hours ago, midiankai said:

this has been discussed for more than half a year

 

1 hour ago, Fixx said:

no, from 2014... 

2014 was more than half a year ago, wasn’t it? 

[midiankai 2]

this is even more strange then, if they brought select similar and merge features, id kick adobe into garbage can and went full affinity mode

[Rodi 4]

I would greatly benefit from select similar.

 

[MrDoodlezz 125]

Hey fellows,

I'd like to agree here. This function would be great to edit existing files with many individual elements that look
the same but are separated and would otherwise have to be selected individually.

A small workaround to at least change colours universally could be to use the function of global colour swatches –
however this would only work if you started building the document from scratch.

Therefore I would also be happy if this feature would be implemented sometime.

Cheers
MrDoodlezz

[Fixx 587]

This feature would be essential when cleaning files that originate from CAD software. Those tend to have amazing amount of lines and objects, many of them fully redundant.

[DJ_Jaybee 2]

Select similar is essential when supplied complex plans that haven't been organised into relevant layers - otherwise it can be a nightmare selecting things.

[Rcoopr 2]

Select same by colour fill, line colour, lineweight, etc...  This is a very BASIC function!  Its not even a feature.

This was requested in 2014 and still not implemented?!  Are you kidding?

Basic productivity and workflow is important to any professional.  Simple software that does simple things well.

Come on Affinity - you have had 4 years already!

[mapz 0]

We definitely need it as well. Go for it!

[Rcoopr 2]

Surely it would take less than a day to write the 'select by same' script?

Affinity I've already paid you my cash in good faith that your program works well.  Now I realise it doesn't even do the basics properly.

I'm wondering if Affinity plans on implementing this or not?  And by when? I will make back the monthly adobe subscription fee in the productivity gain in just ONE simple function. This lack of functionality makes the Affinity product slow & redundant - and uncompetitive compared to the market leader.

Has anyone from Admin / development got a reply?  If not I might as well ask for refund, as the product is slow & uncompetitive.  I can't use it.

[Rcoopr 2]

Stating my reasons above, I emailed Affinity customer support and requested for a refund on both Affinity Designer and Publisher.

Affinity issued both refunds within a week.

Despite asking numerous times in my emails, I was unable to ascertain any further information about the development of these 'select by' tools. 

I think it's safe to assume that Affinity is simply not interested in developing them, or discussing their development.

[Mark Ingram 2,835]

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