Confused about very basic things

[V Silly]

Hello again, long time illustrator user, newbie to affinity designer. I am trying to draw 2 centered circles. I have not been able to figure out how to make the circle tool draw from the center. I have also not been able to figure out how to get the program to align the circles to so they both share the same center point. I tried activating grids but there is no centerpoint in the circles and the tools I have tried do not drag from the center. When I dragged guides from the rulers they did not snap to the grid but seem to be locating randomly somewhere else on the page. Tried hitting command Y which in Illustrator would show me the outline mode with a center point. Something is happening to the view but it does not seem to be showing me the outlines of the artwork. If someone could please point me in the right direction I would be very appreciative. I guess there is always a big learning curve with a new program. -sigh- Thank you

[firstdefence]

44 minutes ago, V Silly said:

I have not been able to figure out how to make the circle tool draw from the center.

Press CMD + Shift and pull out, CMD draws from the centre and shift maintains the circle.

44 minutes ago, V Silly said:

I have also not been able to figure out how to get the program to align the circles to so they both share the same center point.

Duplicate the circle you have just drawn CMD + J and do CMD + Shift and pull in or out to get an inner or outer circle. 

When you click on just about any tool there is a small bar at the bottom of the screen with info on modifiers.

[V Silly]

Thanks this helps, is there a way to make the circle show where the centerpoint is? I think I got them centered but I am really not able to tell for sure. Thanks again

[Guest]

Hello V Silly,

To display the center of an object (selected), click on the button representing a target in the context bar.

To align the two circles on the same center, select them and click on the "Align Horizontally" and "Align Vertically" buttons in the context bar.

 

[V Silly]

Thanks, that helps a lot. Is there any way the program will let you drag from the centerpoint of an object and snap to the centerpoint of another object? Maybe that is unnecessary in this program since the basic concepts are a little different then the way I was doing things before. Thanks to the forum members for the quick replies.:-)

[gdenby]

Hi, V Silly,

No need to move the center point, which is mostly used as a center for rotation, not position, AD has a wide variety of snapping options. Take a look at those, probably what you need there.

[Gear maker]

V Silly, you in the move tool you can drag to move an object from any where inside the bounding box.  If that is what you mean.  If you mean to change sizes of the object holding down the cmd key will let you drag a bounding box handle to resize from the center.

Using the snapping function you can snap to the center point just make sure that the Snap to object geometry is selected in the snapping menu and snapping is engaged.

[V Silly]

OK thank you, I think I'm understanding this better. Much appreciated