supervolting Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Consider having 2 rectangles and wanting to create a circle in between them. How can you snap the circle evenly between the two? I'm looking for the snap lines, but don't see them (and enabled everything under the sun). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achim63 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I just tried this and for me the green and red lines on the rectangles show up when drawing a circle between them. I started at the upper right corner of the left rectangle and dragged to the lower right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervolting Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 I wish I had an easy way to show/demonstrate. I don't think I described what I'm trying to do. The circle is not gonna fill the gap, I want it to offset evenly between both rectangles. I'll try to take a screen capture. Imagine both rectangles are horizontal and I want a buffer of space to be between the rectangles and the circle. I don't want the circle to clip to the rectangle. The circle is already created, I just want AD to automatically position the circle midway between the two rectangles. A green vertical line will appear to align it in the middle, but as I drag up or down along that green guide line, I don't see anything to suggest a midway point between the tangent of the circle and the two rectangles. (Mind you this is only an example, my actual objects are much less simple) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervolting Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 So I found out if you select the three layers/objects, the narrower one will be the one that moves when you right click and select "Align Center" from the alignment menu. Likewise, tinier one will move when "Align Middle" is selected. This doesn't necessarily solve if the shape you want to move is bigger, though. I didn't check, but perhaps locking the two layers we don't want to move would help this. Still, there aren't any guide/snapping lines that appear, which was what I was looking for, for workflow and productivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achim63 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Then you're right - snapping to the middle of near objects is not in (yet?) as far as I know. But the alignment tools work fine in such a situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 14, 2015 Staff Share Posted April 14, 2015 Hi supervolting, To get an even space between the objects in your example you have to use Space Vertically, not Align Middle or Align Center (those are for other purposes). Check this video. The snapping guidelines will not pick references outside the objects (yet), so they will not work here. Zeitfraktur 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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