bordercross Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 How does one use the Node Tool to select multiple nodes quickly? The only way I can see to do this is by clicking on every single node individually. There must be an easier way. See video of me trying to select nodes with the marquee. Any help is appreciated. Screen Recording 2018-11-09 at 11.32.42 PM.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Select by dragging a marquee around multiple nodes with the node tool. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bordercross Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 As you can see from the video I tried this and it does not work. Curiously upon further investigation I noticed that it does not work on freshly created straight lines made with the Pen Tool. If the lines are modified in some way, then it starts working. Is this a bug? Nodes.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 @bordercross Couldn't watch your video first time round as I was not on a PC. Odd, it works perfectly for me. These are all freshly created straight lines. As you can see, all the top nodes were selected with a marquee. I can also press down shift and add nodes to the selection, as I did with the three nodes on the horizontal lines. You don't say what app or OS you are using but that was done in Designer 1.6.5.123 on a Windows 10 PC. I also tried the same thing with Photo 1.6.5 .123 and that worked properly too. Maybe a Mac thing? Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Mac wise it gets odd, watch the gif below, I made multiple lines, the vertical ones are all duplicates of the first, the horizontal lines are just a duplicate of the vertical lines. The node tool is selected all the layers are selected and then I get this odd selection. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 @toltec you can select the nodes because your strokes are not perfect horizontal or vertical. i believe that this is a known bug firstdefence 1 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 1 minute ago, dutchshader said: @toltec you can select the nodes because your strokes are not perfect horizontal or vertical. i believe that this is a known bug Yep, just twisted my lines a bit and all nodes can be selected. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, dutchshader said: @toltec you can select the nodes because your strokes are not perfect horizontal or vertical. i believe that this is a known bug Oh yes. Groan Another bug. dutchshader 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Yes this is a known bug, for a couple years now at least. Here Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bordercross Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 Well, hopefully it will be fixed soon in the next release 1.7? I was also surprised that the Node Tool can only select nodes if the shape is first selected with the Move Tool. That does not seem very intuitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I can select something by cmd + clicking on a feature while in the node tool. I'm running it on a mac, maybe a PC is different. Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bordercross Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 Yes, this also work on the Mac, but I meant that using the Node Tool to draw a selection marquee around a group of nodes is not possible unless the objects are first selected by the Move Tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 . R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bordercross Posted May 7, 2019 Author Share Posted May 7, 2019 The problem of not being able to select Horizontal or Vertical line segment nodes with a marquee still seems to persist in the most recent Beta version of Affinity Designer 1.0.7.11. Only after selecting every individual node and moving it can they be selected with a marquee. This is extremely tedious when working with many individual line segments. Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 4 hours ago, bordercross said: The problem of not being able to select Horizontal or Vertical line segment nodes with a marquee still seems to persist in the most recent Beta version of Affinity Designer 1.0.7.11. Only after selecting every individual node and moving it can they be selected with a marquee. This is extremely tedious when working with many individual line segments. Don't know if you are on Mac or Windows but on Mac what you describe is the behaviour I get with 1.7.0.11 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 2 hours ago, bandass said: Haven't used AI in years. Never used it much. So I'm not sure what you mean by drag select. AD's node tool will select nodes by dragging a marquee over them. Those selected will move all at once if in the tool context bar "snap all selected nodes while dragging" is active. The issue is making a marquee node selection on a straight line where all its nodes are either horizontally or vertically aligned. It is a known bug, as confirmed in this recent reply by @Sean P. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Pressing Option (Alt) and then dragging a free-hand marquee around vertically and horizontally aligned nodes will select them, but as with previous comments you have to select the layers you want to select from, not even grouping the layers saves you from this tedium. Gear maker 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 firstdefence, thanks for this note. Please note that you have to be in version 1.7 to have the option of doing a free-hand marquee. 1.6 doesn't have the option. R C-R 1 Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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