Pathfinder like in ID

[kaptn]

Hi, great job. I am missing the pathfinder to convert a shape in another. E.G. from the rectangle to the circle?

[Michail]

2 hours ago, kaptn said:

Hi, great job. I am missing the pathfinder to convert a shape in another. E.G. from the rectangle to the circle?

You can get these functions in the context bar (View/Customise Toolbar):

[kaptn]

Thanks, but I looking to "convert form" 

[fde101]

I don't believe that option currently exists, except for a few specific cases such as converting an oval (misnamed as an ellipse - an ellipse is a very specific mathematical shape and most of what is created with the "ellipse" tool in the Affinity programs are not ellipses at all) into a pie/donut.

[Alfred]

40 minutes ago, fde101 said:

misnamed as an ellipse

Using the Ellipse Tool in the Affinity apps, how do you — without converting it to curves so that you can distort it to have one axis of symmetry instead of two — draw an oval which is not an ellipse?

[fde101]

An ellipse is defined using two fixed points and a distance; the outline of the shape is those points which have the exact same sum of distances from each of the two fixed points.

Most ovals are NOT ellipses.

Easy enough to find with a Google search - example: https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-ellipse-and-vs-oval/

As far as I can tell the only way to make sure you are drawing an ellipse with the ellipse tool is to constrain it into a circle.

A circle is always an ellipse, but an ellipse is not always a circle (a circle is an ellipse with both fixed points being the same point).

Similarly, an ellipse is always an oval, but an oval is not always an ellipse.

[lepr]

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[kaptn]

well I am sure you are right. But ovals and ellipses? Doesn't answer my question - right?

 

 

On 12/1/2018 at 5:10 PM, fde101 said:

An ellipse is defined using two fixed points and a distance; the outline of the shape is those points which have the exact same sum of distances from each of the two fixed points.

Most ovals are NOT ellipses.

Easy enough to find with a Google search - example: https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-ellipse-and-vs-oval/

As far as I can tell the only way to make sure you are drawing an ellipse with the ellipse tool is to constrain it into a circle.

A circle is always an ellipse, but an ellipse is not always a circle (a circle is an ellipse with both fixed points being the same point).

Similarly, an ellipse is always an oval, but an oval is not always an ellipse.

 

On 12/1/2018 at 10:22 AM, Michail said:

You can get these functions in the context bar (View/Customise Toolbar):

 

On 12/1/2018 at 3:01 PM, fde101 said:

I don't believe that option currently exists, except for a few specific cases such as converting an oval (misnamed as an ellipse - an ellipse is a very specific mathematical shape and most of what is created with the "ellipse" tool in the Affinity programs are not ellipses at all) into a pie/donut.

 

[fde101]

Actually, I'm less sure now that I was right about the tool producing non-ellipse ovals... my apologies for any confusion, as while I am not 100% certain any longer, it is starting to appear that I had confused a few things.

Correct however that this does not answer your question... if I am correctly interpreting what you want to do, there are only a few specific cases that are available as far as I can tell.  You can generally find those on the context toolbar with a shape selected (and with one of the shape tools or the move or node tool selected).