Tracing with Affinity Designer on Ipad

[Lynn green]

Absolute newbie here!  Hubby says this is the program for me.....I am scanning, reading and watching tutorials but can’t seem to find any on my particular application.  I understand how annoying it is to you for people who don’t even try to work things out ~  but Can you direct me to the area to search please?????  I have a pattern I photographed and want to draw it out complete with actual measurements.  I think I require vector mode but can’t seem to find how to draw and match up the measurements

[Callum]

Hi Lynn,

Welcome to the forums

You should be able to trace your pattern using the Pen Tool you can find a short video on tracing using Designer for desktop below the same process will apply to the iPad version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leCGENyaMco

Thanks

Callum

[Lynn green]

Thank you!

[v_kyr]

There are also some iOS Tracing apps for the iPad (like this one here Imaengine Vector) which claims to can then be used to trace a bitmap image into a reusable vector format. So you don't have to draw everything manually, which can be time consuming for a bunch of images/bitmaps. - Thus you can also use something like that for tracing and then finetune the exported vector result to your needs in AD for iPad.

[Lynn green]

Thank you!  It also helps when your ‘new’ apple pen actually ‘works’ !